Record Breaking Cold January 3-4 & 7-8 Discussion & Observations

[Allsnow]

schools being closed due to the intense cold coming……..

 

 

I think its impressive Chicago broke a rec low from 1884 in the middle of the day…thats nothing to sneeze at

[BlueSkiesFading]

Wow just had a house shaking gust of at least 40mph. My Davis recorded 32mph which is pretty good considering its only about 20ft above the ground and doesn't have the greatest siting. Also KEWR is now gusting to 44mph as of the 10PM ob. Temp here is now down to 26.9 and falling rapidly.

[Allsnow]

I guess a -30 departure will be toast because of a cheap midnight high?

[Wxnyc]

Snowing lightly in brooklyn now , 29.

[mob1]

I guess a -30 departure will be toast because of a cheap midnight high?

Yeah, we have no chance. DCA has a chance as their midnight temperature will be around 10.

[Allsnow]

Yeah, we have no chance. DCA has a chance as their midnight temperature will be around 10.

Good catch! They are 15 right now, they will prob do it. This outbreak should break a ton of records in the south

[Stormlover74]

I guess a -30 departure will be toast because of a cheap midnight high?

Probably not even a -20

[Allsnow]

Probably not even a -20

Ugh...next

[mob1]

Ugh...next

The timing is screwed up for us, places in western PA might see 2 days worth of record lows in 1 hour

[Chris L]

In February 96 Madison saw a high of -14 and low of -27. In Jan 94, they had a high of -13 and low of -27. Jussst a bit stronger. Madison hasn't even broken -20 this go around, and the temp there right now is -13. They won't even beat their daily record of -24. Very very cold? Yes. Historic? Not really.

 

It is historic... Chicago broke their record from 1884. That's over 130 years of data keeping.

 

February '96 is a little bit different because that had a slightly better blocking which helped. But its very much like Jan 1994 in many respects.

[SnoSki14]

I guess a -30 departure will be toast because of a cheap midnight high?

 

And yet we had no trouble getting a +30 or higher last month. Warmth still wins despite all this cold around, at least in these parts.

[BlueSkiesFading]

Does anyone know KNYC's record low max for tomorrow? Temps are really starting to plummet, but it's still gonna be tough for the park to get below 20 or so by midnight. Single digits and low teens are pushing into eastern PA now, but those numbers probably won't be into the NYC metro area until 1-2am at the earliest IMO. 

[Stormlover74]

Does anyone know KNYC's record low max for tomorrow? Temps are really starting to plummet, but it's still gonna be tough for the park to get below 20 or so by midnight. Single digits and low teens are pushing into eastern PA now, but those numbers probably won't be into the NYC metro area until 1-2am at the earliest IMO.

Not sure about tomorrow but today's was 12. Their low may not even break that

[Stormlover74]

I've dropped 6 degrees in the past hour

[donsutherland1]

Does anyone know KNYC's record low max for tomorrow? Temps are really starting to plummet, but it's still gonna be tough for the park to get below 20 or so by midnight. Single digits and low teens are pushing into eastern PA now, but those numbers probably won't be into the NYC metro area until 1-2am at the earliest IMO. 

17° in 1878.

[snywx]

16.7/10 now... Jeez we are dropping fast here.

[Allsnow]

Dca down to 13

[pazzo83]

It is historic... Chicago broke their record from 1884. That's over 130 years of data keeping.

 

February '96 is a little bit different because that had a slightly better blocking which helped. But its very much like Jan 1994 in many respects.

It was just a daily record. When you are setting all time records or state records, that is historic.

[Allsnow]

It was just a daily record. When you are setting all time records or state records, that is historic.

Fwiw it was broken in the middle of day, that I feel is impressive

[tmagan]

It was just a daily record. When you are setting all time records or state records, that is historic.

Central Park has not set a unique daily low record in any DJF day in twenty years.

[SnoSki14]

Dropped 6 in the past hour as well.

[pazzo83]

Fwiw it was broken in the middle of day, that I feel is impressive

I agree, it is quite impressive. I'm just saying this isn't in the same league as 94 and 96. The former got the park below 0, a feat that in and of itself would make an outbreak historic at this point.

[pazzo83]

Central Park has not set a unique daily low record in any DJF day in twenty years.

That is crazy...

[tmagan]

That is crazy...

But not surprising

[Allsnow]

I agree, it is quite impressive. I'm just saying this isn't in the same league as 94 and 96. The former got the park below 0, a feat that in and of itself would make an outbreak historic at this point.

Yeah it's going to take a lot more for us to get below 0 in the park. Upsetting is the fact we had a fresh snow pack the other night and still could not do it. Oh well I will take the nor'easter over the cold any day

[tmagan]

Yeah it's going to take a lot more for us to get below 0 in the park. Upsetting is the fact we had a fresh snow pack the other night and still could not do it. Oh well I will take the nor'easter over the cold any day

At this rate, to get NYC below zero, you might need something like a surge of 850 T below (-25 C) moving from the north.

[doncat]

Gonna have a monthly mean temp here of 21 degrees or so by wednesday for the first eight days of jan...close to a record start.

[SnowGoose69]

At this rate, to get NYC below zero, you might need something like a surge of 850 T below 25 C moving from the north.

 

NYC may have done it tonight if we had the timing 3-4 hours earlier on this...the CAA is so strong that even with a W wind I think they'd have pulled it off, I could see it down to 2 or 3 possible around 7-8am but thats probably the lowest its gonna get.

[MikeS]

Wind is whipping right now. 36 MPH gusts.

[doncat]

Down 7 degrees past hour here.