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Can You Name Your Top 20 Storms In Order?


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1) Hurricane Sandy...2012

2) December 1992 Nor'easter

3) January 1996 Blizzard

4) Hurricane Gloria...1985

5) February 1983 Blizzard

6) April 1982 Blizzard

7) March 1993 Superstorm

8) August 14, 2011 10+ inches of rain in under 12 hours

9) Irene...2011

10) March 2010 windstorm

11) November 1995 windstorm

12) January 1994 Ice Storm

13) January 20, 1978 surprise snowstorm

14) Boxing Day Blizzard...2010

15) February 1978 Blizzard

16) Belle 1976

17) Agnes 1972

18) Labor Day Derecho 1998

19) June 22,1995 5+ inches of rain in under 90 minutes

20) January 22, 1987 surprise snowstorm

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92 ahead of 96 ? Our honeymoon is over ...................

 

Funny... You have to cut me some slack for growing up by the shore where blizzards compete with nor'easters and

hurricanes for rankings on my list. :D

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1...Sandy 2012...

2...Donna 1960...

3...Agnes 1972...

4...Doria 1971...

5...Irene 2011...

6...Floyd 1999...

7...Gloria 1985...

8...Bell 1976...

9...Bob 1991...

10 Tropical storm 6 Sept. 1961...

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Feb. 1961...

Jan. 1996...

Dec. 2010...

Mar. 1960...

Dec. 1960...

Feb. 1978...

Feb. 1969...

Jan. 1964...

Feb. 1983...

Feb. 2003...

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other storms...

Mar. 1962...

Dec. 1969...

Mar. 1971...

Feb. 1972...

Dec. 1973...

Mar. 1984...

Mar. 1993...

Mar. 2010...

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1. Hurricane Sandy. (Hurricane conditons)

2. January 1996. (Snow)

3. December 1992 (wind)

4. Boxing Day. (Blizzard)

5. March 2010 (rain/wind)

6. Labor Day Derecho (wind)

7. Hurricane Gloria (was so young. Don't remeber much)

8. Irene. (Wind,rain surge)

9. Jan 26/27 2011 (snow rate)

10. February 26/27 2010 (snow)

11. August 14th 2011 (flooding rains)

12. Jan 1994 (ice)

13. August 1st 2010 (large hail)

14. Superstorm 1993

15. Surprise snow storm (early 1990s)

16. Severe thunderstorm (late 1980s-early 1990s)

17. June 2010 Severe thunderstorm in Sioux City, Iowa

18. January 2005 (snow)

19. December 2009 (snow rate)

20. March 2001 and Juno (busts)

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I wasn't living in NJ long enough to have a decent top 20, but my top 10 are:

Superstorm Sandy

Boxing Day Blizzard

PD II

March 2010 windstorm

Irene

August 2011

Labor Day Derecho

Tropical storm Ernesto (strong winds)

Millennium storm

Feb 2015 (longest duration of cold I've experienced)

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1. Hurricane Sandy - 2012

2. March 2010 Nor'easter

3. Hurricane Irene - 2011

4. January '99 Ice Storm (DC Metro)

5. Hurricane Dennis - 2005 (Orlando)

6. Boxing Day Blizzard - 2010

7. August '07 stationary thunderstorm (Tampa)

8. August '14 record downpour

9. January '15 Blizzard

10. Xmas Eve '13 snow, 40min w/5-6" per hr rates.

September 2011 tornado/macroburst would've made my list, had I went to school that day.

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sandy

blizzard of 96

boxing day 2010

labor day 98

dec 30 2000

april 2002 heat wave ending severe convection

pd2

august 2002 MCC http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/looper2.php?date=020802&type=rad

floyd

june 2000 squall line http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20000602

irene

may 2000 squall line http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20000518

tax day 2007 nor'easter

dec 5 2003

august 1997 convection http://synoptic.envsci.rutgers.edu/riggi/kdix_19970718.gif

feb 25 2010

nov 2012 snowstorm

july 18 2006 convection

october 2005 rain events

jan 2004 super clipper

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there was a storm when I was about 12 years old that had winds strong enough to blow about 100 Spalding balls that were lost on the roof of the school up the block from my house...Not only were they blown off the roof but were stuck in the cyclone fence that was around the yard...It was like Christmas morning because I picked about 25 good balls to play with...It was like picking apples off a tree...Stickball was the main game that we played at the time and most of those balls were hit back on the roof or split in half...There was a thunder storm in June 1962 that caused flooding and a sink hole near my block...1967 there was a thunder storm deluge that caused flooding on 10th Ave...I remember driving thru it and the water was about two to three feet high...November 11th, 1990's wind storm...60mph gust almost blew my weather box off the roof...2003's tornado and hail on Staten Island...2007's F2 tornado that hit Staten Island and Brooklyn not far from where I used to live...There are other strong frontal passages and thunder storms that did more damage than the blizzards and hurricanes imby at the time...

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Guest Pamela

1/ 2/8/13

2/ 2/6/78

3/ 2/11/83

4/ 1/7/96 

5/ The 22 inches of rain in October 2005 / 9 inches in one day

6/ 2/17/03

7/ 12/19/09

8/ 1/26/15

9/ 4/6/82

10/ 4/9/96

11/ 11/27/89

12/ 1/11/11

13/ 1/22/05

14/ 12/6/03

15/ Hurricane & snowstorm within a week or two of each other / autumn 2012

16/ 1/20/78

17/ January 2011 / severest winter month in recent memory

18/ 3/4/01

19/ The anomalous cold of February 2015

20/ 2/10/10

21/ 3/2/09

22/ 1/26/11

23/ 2/26/10

24/ 12/26/10

25/ The anomalous heat of the spring & summer of 2010

26/ 2/11/06

27/ The anomalous cold of January 2004

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Using unc's "segregation" strategy:

 

TCs

1.  Hazel, 1954 - wind (NNJ)

2.  Doria, 1971 - wind, rain (NNJ)

3.  Bob, 1991 - wind, rain (C.Maine)

4.  Donna, 1960 - wind (NNJ)

5.  Belle, 1976 - rain (N.Maine)

6.  Connie/Diane, 1955 - rain (NNJ)

7.  Irene, 2011 - rain (W.Maine)

8.  Floyd, 1999 - rain, some wind (W.Maine)

9.  Edna, 1954 - wind (NNJ)

10. Agnes, 1972 - rain (NNJ)

 

Snowstorms

1.  April 7-8, 1982 - blizzard, best positive bust ever (N.Maine)

2.  Feb 3-4, 1961 - 2' snow atop 2' snowpack (NNJ)

3.  Mar 14-15, 1984 - 26.5" atop 42" snowpack (N.Maine)

4.  Feb. 22-23, 2009 - 9" in 2:45, 18" in 7:30, 24.5" total (W.Maine)

5.  Mar 1956 - surprise 2-ft powder (NNJ)

6.  Dec 6-7, 2003 - 2 ft snow with winds (W.Maine)

7.  Dec 24, 1966 - thundersnow (NNJ)

8.  Dec 12-13, 1960 - 18" cold powder for NJ deer opener (NNJ)

9.  Mar 30-31, 2001 - 19" brings 3/31 pack to 48" (W.Maine)

10. Jan 19-20, 1961 - 20" at temps near 10 (NNJ)

Jan 2015 would be on the list, perhaps top 5, if I'd been home to see it - 20 blizzard-borne inches at single-digit temps. 

 

Other events

1.  Jan 8,9, 1998 - ice storm (C.Maine)  This would be #1 on a combo list.

2.  Jan 8,9, 1953 - ice storm (NNJ)  Probably the genesis of my interest in wx and trees.

3.  Nov. 1950 - Apps gale (NNJ)  Earliest wx memory, perhaps strongest winds expereienced (unless it's #4, below)

4.  Dec. 1962 - New Year's Eve frigid gales (NNJ)  Tree-toppling, pipe-freezing, window-smashing subzero NW winds.

5.  Jan. 17-18, 1982 - Frigid winds (N.Maine) WCI at -101 [old scale. -70s on new]  Temp -34 with winds 30-35.

6.  Dec 25, 1980 - cold Christmas (N.Maine)  Afternoon high -16 with winds 30G45

7.  Aug 30, 2007 - treekiller hailstorm (W.Maine)  Defoliated trees on 7,000 acres, partially debarking some.

8.  Jan 2004 - Cold (W.Maine)  Afternoon highs 14, 15 were -11 and -8.

9.  Mar 2012 - Record heat (W.Maine) - Farmington's 3 warmest March days in 123 yr records.

10. Dec 1989 - Record cold (C.Maine)  Possibly the largest monthly temp anomaly ever for many New England sites.

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1.) Sandy (2012)

2.) January 26-27, 2011

3.) PDII (2003)

4.) Irene (2011)

5.) Floyd (1999)

6.) May 6, 2015 Norman tornado (saw my first wedge tornado and golfball sized hail)

7.) April 2007 Nor'easter

8.) March 2010 Nor'easter

9.) February 10, 2010

10.) February 11-12, 2006

11.) January 22-23, 2005

12.) February 2, 2011 ice storm

13.) January 21, 2014

14.) October 29, 2011 early-season snowstorm

15.) March 16, 2007 sleet storm

16.) April 7, 2003 late-season snowstorm

17.) October 27, 2003 Bedminster NJ tornado

18.) August 8, 2007 MCS

19.) Boxing Day 2010

20.) December 5-6, 2003

Too young to remember the 1993 Superstorm or January 1996 well, and I was gone for the December 2000 snowstorm and Labor Day 1998 derecho, or those would certainly be on my list as well. I got jipped in Boxing Day 2010 and Feb 25-26, 2010 Snowicane.

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