gravitylover Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 4 hours ago, Paragon said: I wish you had been around to witness the April 1982 behemoth, it might just be my 8 year old memories but I distinctly remember that snow sticking around for a week, and another snowstorm at the end of the week to boot. Heck, the April 2003 snowstorm kept snow on the ground for 4 days too (three straight days in the 30s after that.) 4 hours ago, Paragon said: Wow, I didn't know Islip recorded 16" on 4/6/82- the NYC airports recorded around 8" each. Was the 16" the highest recorded on Long Island for that storm? Yeah that storm was impressive for sure. I remember having a couple of days off from school, getting a terrible sunburn from playing outside for hours, nearly wrecking my eyes from not wearing sunglasses and my dad being pissed at missing a day of work because the street was impassable. We didn't even see a plow for two days on my dead end street in Oceanside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 3:07 AM, ncforecaster89 said: Hi Paragon! From all the data I've seen, it appears the 16" in KISP is the largest recorded amt on Long island. Of course, there may have been higher unofficial totals, but the NESIS map has the highest amount centered on Islip. As you noted, both LaGuardia & Kennedy recorded 8.2" and 8.0", respectively. NYC central park tallied 9.6", itself...with Newark coming in above 13". http://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=okx Thanks for digging that up! I'm also interested in the storm that occurred a week after that one. I know we were supposed to get 3-6 inches from it but the storm ended up being a bit further out to sea, but we did get 1" of snow at JFK in the day time in mid April, which is no small feat! Do you know if Islip might have gotten more than that? The storm would have been around the 10th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 On 3/29/2018 at 7:13 AM, gravitylover said: Yeah that storm was impressive for sure. I remember having a couple of days off from school, getting a terrible sunburn from playing outside for hours, nearly wrecking my eyes from not wearing sunglasses and my dad being pissed at missing a day of work because the street was impassable. We didn't even see a plow for two days on my dead end street in Oceanside. How much snow would you say you got at Oceanside? Do you remember the snow event that happened a week after the April Blizzard too? I was living in Brooklyn back then (moved to Long Island for the following winter and experienced the Great Blizzard of 1983 there.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncforecaster89 Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 11 minutes ago, Paragon said: Thanks for digging that up! I'm also interested in the storm that occurred a week after that one. I know we were supposed to get 3-6 inches from it but the storm ended up being a bit further out to sea, but we did get 1" of snow at JFK in the day time in mid April, which is no small feat! Do you know if Islip might have gotten more than that? The storm would have been around the 10th. My pleasure! Islip only recorded a Trace on 4/09/1982. The only other day with measurable snow (in the month) was a T on 4/04...preceding the 4/6 event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 4 minutes ago, ncforecaster89 said: My pleasure! Islip only recorded a Trace on 4/09/1982. The only other day with measurable snow (in the month) was a T on 4/04...preceding the 4/6 event. That was quite the wintry week, I don't know if you can even go back to the 1800s and find a week that cold so late in the season. Though I remember you posted numbers from April 1876 when NYC received 10+ inches of snow somewhere around the 13-15th of April. I'm not sure if we'll see anything like that again in our lifetime (though some would argue that the late October 2011 snowstorm was just as rare, since NYC had never received an inch of snow in October before that event and was in a Winter Storm Warning and received 3" while 6" fell as close as The Bronx.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 4 hours ago, Paragon said: How much snow would you say you got at Oceanside? Do you remember the snow event that happened a week after the April Blizzard too? I was living in Brooklyn back then (moved to Long Island for the following winter and experienced the Great Blizzard of 1983 there.) I want to say it was 9-10" and I don't remember there being more than maybe an inch after that. I do remember that being the most durable April snow ever though. If I'm not mistaken it was on the ground for about 5 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 On 3/31/2018 at 7:36 AM, gravitylover said: I want to say it was 9-10" and I don't remember there being more than maybe an inch after that. I do remember that being the most durable April snow ever though. If I'm not mistaken it was on the ground for about 5 days. That whole week was so cold- I have to think that more than just the Yankee home opener got snowed out. Were we in the teens the morning after the snow fell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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