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Historic October NYC Snowstorm Obs/Disco II


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Yes and I doubt all those areas already had a hard freeze, especially near the sound and ocean.

We did...and we are usually quite late with a freeze. I was too close to the sound to get any snow accumulation on Saturday, but not too close to get into the 20s for a few hours Sunday night. Growing season has unquestionably ended here.

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Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around or didn't post during the storm. It has been a few crazy days. My town received between 7-11 inches of snow, the higher elevations over 600ft are where the higher totals were found. The storm downed many trees and resulted in power loss to about 75% of the town at one point. I am still without power, and during Irene I went 8 days without it. The storm resulted in a lot of damage and even one fatal house fire that I responded to. An electric line that sagged under the weight of the snow surged the power in the home and started a large fire trapping two occupants inside and killing one. This was one of if not the most disruptive and high impact storm I have ever seen. Unreal for October. Hope everyone is safe and doing well.

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I did some research on snowfalls with temperatures above freezing in Central Park...I remember a few from the 1960's that started as rain but changed to wet snow when the precip came down hard...March 1984 was the last time this happened before last weeks storm...most of these storms started as rain and ended as rain...

date......max...min...precip...snowfall...

10/29/11...45...33......2.00"......2.9"

03/29/84...43...34......2.60"......3.3"

02/23/69...35...34......0.48"......1.3"

03/17/65...46...35......0.48"......1.1"

03/20/63...39...35......0.41"......0.8"

02/19/63...43...34......0.97"......2.5"

02/09/62...43...33......0.47"......2.9"

12/29/59...37...33......0.27"......1.8"

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Here's my standard NJ "raw" plot... will contour it tomorrow:

Needs some smoothing. I am trying to figure out how to draw a map on a KML file and just multiply it by elevation. 0.012 X your elevation would have worked nice for this storm.

You might have to add 6 in the Hartford area.

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Yeah no doubt, it's part of living in the NJ/NY area - most outsiders usually make a comment re NJ as a total industrial wasteland. I'm sure there are pretty sections of NYC, although I'd say for Manhattan it's safe to say there's very little greenery (Central Park the one exception).

You are joking, I take it.

The northern tip of Manhattan, from around the GW north on the West Side has heavily forested patches. There's Washington Square Park and other parks.

Manhattan is a lot greener than you think, and most of the other boroughs have extensive green areas.

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I did some research on snowfalls with temperatures above freezing in Central Park...I remember a few from the 1960's that started as rain but changed to wet snow when the precip came down hard...March 1984 was the last time this happened before last weeks storm...most of these storms started as rain and ended as rain...

date......max...min...precip...snowfall...

10/29/11...45...33......2.00"......2.9"

03/29/84...43...34......2.60"......3.3"

02/23/69...35...34......0.48"......1.3"

03/17/65...46...35......0.48"......1.1"

03/20/63...39...35......0.41"......0.8"

02/19/63...43...34......0.97"......2.5"

02/09/62...43...33......0.47"......2.9"

12/29/59...37...33......0.27"......1.8"

Other events (I don't have statistics on them but I think we had over 4+" after the changeover to snow were April 7, 1982, February 25, 2010, December 13, 1968 and Easter Sunday 1970.
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Other events (I don't have statistics on them but I think we had over 4+" after the changeover to snow were April 7, 1982, February 25, 2010, December 13, 1968 and Easter Sunday 1970.

the storms I mentioned had temperatures above freezing throughout...March 21-22, 1964 had a snowstorm that started as rain with temperatures above freezing most of the storm...temp bottomed out at 32...Another would have been Feb. 25-26, 1966...A very wet snow that started as rain but the temperature hit 32 during the storm...same goes for 3/1/1968...The 1960's had many snowstorms that started as rain with temperatures in the high 30's at the beginning of the event but change to snow and near freezing temperatures at the end...April 7th 1982 had temperatures fall into the low 20's...The other storms went below freezing as well...

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Here's my standard NJ "raw" plot... will contour it tomorrow:

That amount of 1.9 inches in wyckoff nj is BS. Don't know how that was measured. I live in Franklin Lakes right next store, we had 6-11 depending on elevation. Wyckoff had at least 4 inches, that reporting was completely inaccurate.

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the storms I mentioned had temperatures above freezing throughout...March 21-22, 1964 had a snowstorm that started as rain with temperatures above freezing most of the storm...temp bottomed out at 32...Another would have been Feb. 25-26, 1966...A very wet snow that started as rain but the temperature hit 32 during the storm...same goes for 3/1/1968...The 1960's had many snowstorms that started as rain with temperatures in the high 30's at the beginning of the event but change to snow and near freezing temperatures at the end...April 7th 1982 had temperatures fall into the low 20's...The other storms went below freezing as well...

Good point. But what about the February 25-26, 2010 snowicane?
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Note the disclaimer on the bottom left of the map, guys... if your total doesn't go through the NWS (CoCoRaHS is NWS-funded so that counts), it won't make the map. Yes, this is partly my way of twisting your arms into calling OKX/PHI with storm totals or doing CoCoRaHS ;)

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Note the disclaimer on the bottom left of the map, guys... if your total doesn't go through the NWS (CoCoRaHS is NWS-funded so that counts), it won't make the map. Yes, this is partly my way of twisting your arms into calling OKX/PHI with storm totals or doing CoCoRaHS ;)

Lol, gotcha. And wow at some of the totals in NW Morris.

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I just grabbed a few more totals from CoCoRaHS, I'll have to add them tomorrow. It will alter the contours a bit up in northwestern NJ.

If someone wants to get their total in, I'd suggest you sign up for CoCoRaHS. While its certainly preferred that you report all the time, of course there's no requirement since its totally volunteer.

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