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December 19-20 Talking Points - Part 3


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The 12/13/88 event was the 40 mile wide Norlun trough - dropped up to a foot of snow in west central Suffolk, rain to the east, and flurries from the Queens line west. There is a good technical discussion of this storm in the Kocin Book (Volume I) and I'm presently searching for the link to a good online article which may no longer be available.

The 2/25/90 event was a big snowmaker over the East End (in excess of a foot) with lighter amounts elsewhere.

Both were forecast poorly as well...the 2/25/90 event was even worse because unlike the 1988 event which was anticipated to be a miss everywhere and surprised with the norlun setup, the 1990 storm was supposed to be a big snow producer even for NYC...I believe the 24 hour forecast was good but 2-3 days earlier it was expected to be big.

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SUNY MM 5 looks a bit suppressed out to Hour 60, but that model suppresses everything outside of 24...

Its generally most useful in cases where it disagrees with the NAM since its run off the NAM's grid...so if the NAM is showing a miss and its a hit or vice versa it could mean something is up.

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Does anyone remember the Jan.21st, 1987 storm? I'll never forget the Blizzard Warning being scrawled across the screen as the Giants were destroying the Broncos in SB XXI. I belive we got 8" from that one. How's that for a great night, your team wins the Super Bowl and there is a Blizzard Warning in effect.

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Does anyone remember the Jan.21st, 1987 storm? I'll never forget the Blizzard Warning being scrawled across the screen as the Giants were destroying the Broncos in SB XXI. I belive we got 8" from that one. How's that for a great night, your team wins the Super Bowl and there is a Blizzard Warning in effect.

You're thinking of 1/25/87....that was a Sunday night/Monday AM event mainly for LI....1/21/87 was the Wednesday or Thursday before....Newark and LaGuardia both saw a foot.

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You're thinking of 1/25/87....that was a Sunday night/Monday AM event mainly for LI....1/21/87 was the Wednesday or Thursday before....Newark and LaGuardia both saw a foot.

If memory serves me right, there was an LIRR strike at the time, which you know caused its own problems.

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You're thinking of 1/25/87....that was a Sunday night/Monday AM event mainly for LI....1/21/87 was the Wednesday or Thursday before....Newark and LaGuardia both saw a foot.

SG, which was the one that had a narrow heavy corridor of snow between EWR and JFK? Like 8-10 inches with much less in every other direction. It stalled out SE of eastern Long Island and was a long duration wet snow, was supposed to just be a frontal passage with flurries.

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