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December 30, 2000 snowstorm...


Chris L

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I was in MD at the time in college and got nothing! That I will never forget

and just 3 months prior to the biggest screwjob of them all, 3/6/01. (I think 12/30/00 must have been worse--3/6/01 unraveled over a day or two...12/30, most went to bed expecting a foot and woke up to sunshine.)

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I was only 8 years old during that storm, but I remember going to Lancaster, PA that weekend where they were expecting a lot of snow, but they got nothing but flurries. :axe: According to my dad we got back home to about 16'' on the ground.

Here are the radar images from Ray's archive. Wall of heavy snow is right: http://www.njfreeway...darImagery.html

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i also remember that storm starting out as a wall of heavy snow. thunder woke me up around 5 am

there was barely a blip on the radar anywhere on the east coast at 1am,

by 4am it looked like a nuclear weapon had been detonated off the south jersey coast.... an exploding, expanding bomb of snow, the likes of which i've never seen before or since.

4:30am to 9:30am: 11.5" of snow in 5 hours.

12:30pm to 1:30pm: 4" in one hour.

overall 18" in 9 hours.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY

1045 PM EST SAT DEC 30 2000

...SNOWFALL TOTALS...

SNOW BEGAN SATURDAY MORNING BETWEEN 430 AND 530 AM)

SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...

LOCATION SNOWFALL(INCHES)

NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)...

CENTRAL PARK 12.0 650 PM

QUEENS COUNTY...

JFK AIRPORT 10.0 650 PM

LAGUARDIA AIRPORT 13.0 750 PM

MIDDLE VILLAGE 13.0 300 PM

KINGS COUNTY (BROOKLYN)...

GRAVESEND 12.7 330 PM

BRONX...

BRONX 11.0 445 PM

RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)...

GRYMES HILL 12.5 200 PM

WESTCHESTER COUNTY...

WHITE PLAINS (AIRPORT) 7.0 1245 PM

WHITE PLAINS 14.1 530 PM

WHITE PLAINS (2) 16.0 500 PM

ARMONK 16.0 500 PM

YONKERS 13.5 500 PM

NEW ROCHELLE 12.0 500 PM

OSSINING 11.5 100 PM

MAMARONECK 16.5 500 PM

MOUNT KISCO 13.0 500 PM

ROCKLAND...

SUFFERN 18.0 350 PM

AIRMONT 15.0 700 PM

NASSAU COUNTY...

MINEOLA 10.1 1230 PM

NEW HYDE PARK 10.0 110 PM

OCEANSIDE 15.6 400 PM

PLAINVIEW 12.0 430 PM

EAST MEADOW 13.2 400 PM

GLEN COVE 14.0 900 PM

BALDWIN 11.0 130 PM

BAYVILLE 11.0 1250 PM

LEVITTOWN 11.0 100 PM

LYNBROOK 11.0 530 PM

VALLEY STREAM 14.5 700 PM

SUFFOLK COUNTY...

UPTON (NATIONAL WX SERVICE) 7.9 500 PM (6.7 ON THE GROUND)

BRIDGEHAMPTON 2.7 345 PM

CENTERPORT 11.8 345 PM

COPIAGUE 10.0 1200 PM

ISLIP MCARTHUR AIRPORT 9.0 750 PM

RONKONKOMA 8.5 1200 PM

LAKE RONKONKOMA 9.0 345 PM

BRENTWOOD 11.2 100 PM

HOLBROOK 9.5 1250 PM

WEST BABYLON 10.0 110 PM

EAST PATCHOUGUE 7.0 1200 PM

PATCHOUGUE 6.0 1250 PM

HUNTINGTON STATION 12.0 1250 PM

BAYSHORE 9.5 1250 PM

EAST ISLIP 6.5 1250 PM

CORAM 7.5 1250 PM

MANORVILLE 7.0 310 PM

ROCKY POINT 6.5 140 PM

NORTH LINDENHURST 12.0 500 PM

PORT JEFFERSON 9.0 130 PM

EAST NORTHPORT 12.0 400 PM

EAST QUOGUE 3.5 300 PM

ORANGE COUNTY...

HARRIMAN 12.5 140 PM

MIDDLETOWN 18.0 530 PM

NEWBURGH 14.5 140 PM

WARWICK 21.0 745 PM

NEW WINDSOR 14.2 300 PM

CIRCLEVILLE 15.5 140 PM

ROCK TAVERN 21.0 530 PM

BLOOMING GROVE 15.0 140 PM

WALDEN 14.0 530 PM

CHESTER 17.0 300 PM

PUTNAM COUNTY...

CARMEL 13.0 400 PM

BREWSTER 13.0 400 PM

NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...

HUDSON COUNTY...

HARRISON 13.0 530 PM

JERSEY CITY 16.0 530 PM

SECAUCUS 15.0 530 PM

KEARNY 12.0 715 PM

ELIZABETH 12.0 100 PM

UNION CITY 16.0 430 PM

HOBOKEN 12.9 520 PM

ESSEX COUNTY...

NEWARK AIRPORT 13.9 800 PM

W. CALDWELL 17.5 450 PM

NUTLEY 14.0 500 PM

WEST ORANGE 17.0 230 PM

ROSELAND 14.0 230 PM

PASSAIC COUNTY

WEST MILFORD 20.0 100 PM

HAWTHORNE 16.0 530 PM

POMPTON LAKES 22.0 530 PM

CLIFTON 19.0 530 PM

LITTLE FALLS 19.0 220 PM

GREENWOOD LAKE 20.0 450 PM

HEWETT 25.0 430 PM

BERGEN COUNTY...

RUTHERFORD 17.0 530 PM

LYNDHURST 14.0 530 PM

PALISADES PARK 13.0 530 PM

TETERBORO AIRPORT 13.0 650 PM

RAMSEY 16.0 400 PM

HACKENSACK 11.0 1200 PM

CLIFFSIDE PARK 11.0 1200 PM

FAIRLAWN 16.0 430 PM

CLIFTON 14.0 100 PM

HASBROUCK HTS 15.0 530 PM

N ARLINGTON 14.0 530 PM

DUMONT 13.0 100 PM

UNION COUNTY...

ROSELLE 18.5 130 PM

ELIZABETH 14.0 530 PM

UNION TOWNSHIP 15.0 1200 PM

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...

FAIRFIELD COUNTY...

BRIDGEPORT 10.0 715 PM

GREENWICH 15.5 430 PM

NORWALK 15.0 430 PM

DANBURY 13.0 900 PM

DARIEN 12.5 900 PM

NEW CANAAN 13.0 900 PM

REDDING 17.0 430 PM

WILTON 11.5 430 PM

STRATFORD 10.0 430 PM

NEW HAVEN COUNTY...

GUILFORD 9.0 800 PM

MERIDEN 10.3 900 PM

WATERBURY 10.5 900 PM

OXFORD 10.1 248 PM

MILFORD 9.0 900 PM

NEW HAVEN 8.8 900 PM

BEACON FALLS 10.0 900 PM

NAUGATUCK 12.0 715 PM

SHELTON 8.0 500 PM

CHESIRE 8.0 500 PM

MIDDELSEX...

EAST HADDAM 5.0 500 PM

HADDAM 4.0 900 PM

HADDAM (2) 6.0 400 PM

OLD SAYBROOK 4.0 900 PM

CLINTON 3.5 500 PM

WESTBROOK 4.0 400 PM

CHESTER 5.5 400 PM

DEEP RIVER 4.5 400 PM

NEW LONDON....

COLCHESTER 4.0 900 PM

COLCHESTER (SKYWARNSPOTTER) 5.5 400 PM

GROTON 2.5 900 PM

NORWICH 4.0 900 PM

NORWICH (2) 4.5 530 PM

The general image of that storm is the Suffolk County was a big loser in it; and true the eastern half of the county saw more rain than snow. But the western half generally saw a decent snowfall of 9 - 12 inches (nothing like parts of Jersey, but still decent enough to be something pleasant to recollect..I meassured 9.0" before changing to sleet around 2:00 PM in the afternoon...and by then, the bulk of the precip had moved through.)

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Guest Pamela

William, where did you get that PNS? Thank You!! :)

Copy 'n paste from a post I made at EasternWx...where I got it from then...don't recall...might have been either Boston NWS page or Albany NWS page...whatever the case...it is not on either of those two sites now...

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I remember i was in amsterdam visiting family for this storm and the cool thing was the flight back on Dec 31...we flew west down the ne coast, on eastern long island i remember seeing very little snow, and by the team we approached western suffolk there was about a foot and then the amounts increased more as we got near kennedy. I recall our house in western suffolk getting about 13 inches from this, which all of the neighbors said came in about 6-7 hours...thats my recollection..

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the link to Rays site at top of page has KDIX pics frame by frame. That was an awesome storm for any one North of 39 for the NYC area. Philly and south were pretty much screwed and we all know what happened to Boston.

Philly got 9 inches--it was 20-30 miles west and SW of there where the cutoff was--northern DE had an inch!

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