SACRUS Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/pdfs/bz-mrg.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 17 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SACRUS Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 17 years ago thanks apparently i went right to 2014 tonight. Does anyone have Daily New, Post or NY Times headlines from the blizzard of 96? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green tube Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 there wasnt any specific wind gusts noted in that report. i've always felt the winds on the night of 1/7/96 were among the highest i've ever witnessed. i guessed at the time they were near 60 mph. 36 straight hours of snow. i'd love to see that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Best storm in my life time. Was living near Freehold Howell Jackson border then. Measured 33." At my folks in Manalpan, measured 28". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 the king of I95 snowstorms....in the gold ol' times, where us weenies did not live and die by each runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazman Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Jill Brown always had such insightful reports during her live broadcasts for TWC Still #1 storm for me at my Queens locale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIsevereWX Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Jill Brown always had such insightful reports during her live broadcasts for TWC Still #1 storm for me at my Queens locale A little late on the anniversary of the storm, but what memories. Hoping for something big this year....fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swataz Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Great storm. I have to dredge up some old video I have of it including a foolish trip to a local supermarket in Syosset. Stupid youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 The Blizzard of 96 is by far the greatest snowstorm of my lifetime. I wouldn't even put Boxing Day in the same sentence. Over 36 hours of snow and well over 2' in my back yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momza Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 The Blizzard of 96 is by far the greatest snowstorm of my lifetime. I wouldn't even put Boxing Day in the same sentence. Over 36 hours of snow and well over 2' in my back yard. One of the greats, but so was Boxing Day........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 One of the greats, but so was Boxing Day........ Boxing Day was special for me because of the days and days of tracking beforehand and of course all of the drama with the models and the way they brought it back two days before. The winds were also historic, but I got twice as much snow in 96 than I did with Boxing Day. The best deform banding setup just to my east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 the king of I95 snowstorms....in the gold ol' times, where us weenies did not live and die by each runs. Very true. I remember we mostly had to just keep our eyes glued to the Weather Channel and local news to get weather updates. I recall TWC in the early afternoon of Saturday, Jan 6th going gung ho for NYC...they had previously only been fringing NYC. They still whiffed most of SNE (except the extreme south coast) and the local news also whiffed most of SNE during their lunchtime newscast that Saturday. I gather it was the 12z runs that Saturday that really started to shift the storm's northern extent. I'll never forget watching the 11pm news that night, and one of the Boston mets came on air and said the storm wouldn't miss us and we would be getting a full blown blizzard. I'll never forget the excitement...esp being a 14 year old snow weenie at the time and just beginning to learn about the computer models. We finished with about 15" here, so obviously not the jackpot...but given we were forecasted to get nothing less than 48h out, I was ecstatic. Parts of SE MA though had 24-30". The northern cutoff to that storm was so extreme...I recall in Columbia county NY that the southern edge of the county had over 20" while the northern side had 1". There was a mesoband there in the SE part of the county close to SW MA where Great Barrington is...just sat there for hours at the peak pivot of the storm and gave them 2 feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 i got around 24-30" from boxing day and 96. boxing day was more exciting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB GFI Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Was in Brooklyn in 1996 , we had 24 inches of snow and the narrow streets made the snow piles appear so high after all the shoveling and plowing . But I was in Colts Neck for the Boxing Day storm and we easily had 30 .They didnt plow us for 3 days , equally insane . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Very true. I remember we mostly had to just keep our eyes glued to the Weather Channel and local news to get weather updates. I recall TWC in the early afternoon of Saturday, Jan 6th going gung ho for NYC...they had previously only been fringing NYC. They still whiffed most of SNE (except the extreme south coast) and the local news also whiffed most of SNE during their lunchtime newscast that Saturday. I gather it was the 12z runs that Saturday that really started to shift the storm's northern extent. I'll never forget watching the 11pm news that night, and one of the Boston mets came on air and said the storm wouldn't miss us and we would be getting a full blown blizzard. I'll never forget the excitement...esp being a 14 year old snow weenie at the time and just beginning to learn about the computer models. We finished with about 15" here, so obviously not the jackpot...but given we were forecasted to get nothing less than 48h out, I was ecstatic. Parts of SE MA though had 24-30". The northern cutoff to that storm was so extreme...I recall in Columbia county NY that the southern edge of the county had over 20" while the northern side had 1". There was a mesoband there in the SE part of the county close to SW MA where Great Barrington is...just sat there for hours at the peak pivot of the storm and gave them 2 feet. its 96 that I began believing in the infamous NW trend. and also when I began to lose confidence in TWC. I think years later the old weather board did talk about how they hugged the GFS the week prior, which lead to them busting badly obv. didnt the euro hone in on 96 for like 5 days straight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 there wasnt any specific wind gusts noted in that report. i've always felt the winds on the night of 1/7/96 were among the highest i've ever witnessed. i guessed at the time they were near 60 mph. 36 straight hours of snow. i'd love to see that again. Peak gusts on 1/7-8/1996: ACY - 55 LGA - 55 NYC - 53 JFK - 48 TTN - 46 EWR - 41 Compare to 12/26-27/2010: ACY - 64 JFK - 59 LGA - 56 TTN - 54 EWR - 52 NYC - 43 Except for Central Park, winds were stronger in the Boxing Day Blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Yes the Euro did have the storm well in advance. I remember Channel 7 mentioning it saying one model is showing a blizzard for us. Meanwhile it took until Friday evening for the GFS to even show NYC getting accumulating snow. Even Saturday Afternoon it still looked like the bulk would fall across the midAtlantic from Philly to AC and down to VA getting the worst. I remember forecasts of 6 to 10" by Monday morning with 1 to 2 feet for central and south Jersey. Meanwhile many places had double and triple that amount with more falling through the day. 2003 wasn't all that different though the GFS caught on a little earlier. I think it was about 48 hours out that it looked like it would be a big deal for NYC and not just DC/Baltimore its 96 that I began believing in the infamous NW trend. and also when I began to lose confidence in TWC. I think years later the old weather board did talk about how they hugged the GFS the week prior, which lead to them busting badly obv. didnt the euro hone in on 96 for like 5 days straight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 My old block Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 i got around 24-30" from boxing day and 96. boxing day was more exciting Agreed...at least in this area of NJ Boxing Day was king and almost anybody you ask around here acknowledges that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Boxing Day > Blizzard of 96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Yeah Boxing Day definitely beat 96 in eastern NJ. In western NJ 1996 is still king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Yeah Boxing Day definitely beat 96 in eastern NJ. In western NJ 1996 is still king. Ehh. Even in Eastern NJ, Newark had more snow in Jan 96. I am wiling to bet that some measurments were too low with Jan 96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Ehh. Even in Eastern NJ, Newark had more snow in Jan 96. I am wiling to bet that some measurments were too low with Jan 96. Not by much, less than 4 inches, and the winds were more than 10 mph higher at EWR in Boxing Day... that kinda cancels it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Yeah Boxing Day definitely beat 96 in eastern NJ. In western NJ 1996 is still king. Maybe portions of coastal NJ but not inland Monmouth/Ocean. We had around 30" for the 96 blizzard and 25" for Boxing Day. I care more about total snowfall than winds, so 1996 is still the king for most of Monmouth County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Was in Brooklyn in 1996 , we had 24 inches of snow and the narrow streets made the snow piles appear so high after all the shoveling and plowing . But I was in Colts Neck for the Boxing Day storm and we easily had 30 .They didnt plow us for 3 days , equally insane . I measured 25" in Colts Neck for Boxing Day; the 30"+ totals were confined to the extreme SE Monmouth-northeastern Ocean corridor. Route 18 was closed down for several days, with helicopter rescues a couples miles from my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I measured 23" on 64ST and 12th Ave in Brooklyn for the blizzard of 96...That was the best storm of recent times for me in Brooklyn...The 12/26/2010 storm was the best so far living on Staten Island...It snowed harder in 2010 and it snowed longer in 1996...I love long snow events...Snowfalls that last 24hrs usually give us 10" or more...There are some exceptions like the first February 1994 storm...The sleet and freezing rain probably prevented that storm from being a foot...February 1964 had a storm that lasted 30 hours but the final total was 6.8" It was mostly a wet snow event...December 1995 had one with 8"...again some sleet and freezing rain with that one...The ice storm on 1/8/1994 was a 24 hr frozen precip event...December 1973 was also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 January 1996 is definitely the king for Westchester. The February 25th Snowicane of 2010 comes close but didn't have the duration, the cold temperatures, or the drifting. Here is an old picture from the aftermath of 1996, with about 2' of snow fallen, in Tarrytown NY: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I measured 25" in Colts Neck for Boxing Day; the 30"+ totals were confined to the extreme SE Monmouth-northeastern Ocean corridor. Route 18 was closed down for several days, with helicopter rescues a couples miles from my house. Ya know... I don't think 18 was closed like that in 1996. Just sayin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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