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On this date, 12/30/2000, 21 years ago,  I witnessed the heaviest snowfall rates I've ever seen, not topped before or since, even with all the great storms that followed over the 20 years to follow.  At its peak, could see two houses down my suburban block, but not three.  I've got non-digital photos somewhere I'll have to find sometime.
Only ended up with about 9-10 inches, at the time a big deal with really only 96, 83, and a fuzzy memory of 78 for reference, with the jackpot 2000/2010s yet to come.  The rain/snow line per radar was a hair to my southeast for the entire event.  What a great storm.
 
 
 

Underrated fun snowstorm. Got 18” in six hours.


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7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

cant be better than Jan 2016 30 inches of snow

From where I was sitting, in terms of intensity over a 90 minute period, it was.  We've all seen our share of 20-28" snowfalls since that time.  None approached the rates I experienced in that storm.  Maybe nobody outside of southeast Nassau experienced it in that storm, but I did, and no storm before or since came close to approaching it.  It's why I still remember it like yesterday, 21 years later.

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16 hours ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

On this date, 12/30/2000, 21 years ago,  I witnessed the heaviest snowfall rates I've ever seen, not topped before or since, even with all the great storms that followed over the 20 years to follow.  At its peak, could see two houses down my suburban block, but not three.  I've got non-digital photos somewhere I'll have to find sometime.

Only ended up with about 9-10 inches, at the time a big deal with really only 96, 83, and a fuzzy memory of 78 for reference, with the jackpot 2000/2010s yet to come.  The rain/snow line per radar was a hair to my southeast for the entire event.  What a great storm.

 

 

 

For that storm, I fell asleep and woke up 6 hours later to a foot of snow on the ground. 

 

3 heaviest rates I've personal seen (not in any order):

January 26/27th 2011

Feb 13th 2014

December 19/20th 2009

 

 

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On 12/31/2021 at 2:59 PM, WarrenCtyWx said:

I was under a death band the afternoon of the 2016 blizzard that gave an area from Allentown, PA to NNJ 6-8" in about 2 hours. Was it really only 1" per hour there at the height of the storm?

we had over 30 inches here in 24 hours

it extended east to western long island

 

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On this day in 2014, KFRG got down to 1 degree.  I remember watching some local weatherunderground stations get down to 0.2.   Had to be one of the 5 coldest for Nassau since 1994 with I believe Valentine's day 2016 beating it, and nothing close since.  This is all mostly from memory and notes, someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

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16 minutes ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

On this day in 2014, KFRG got down to 1 degree.  I remember watching some local weatherunderground stations get down to 0.2.   Had to be one of the 5 coldest for Nassau since 1994 with I believe Valentine's day 2016 beating it, and nothing close since.  This is all mostly from memory and notes, someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

Sounds right.  The minimum temperature here (Smithtown) on 1/4/2014 was 0.  The previous day (1/3/2014) had a min of 8 and max of 16 with 8.5" of snow.  Not the highest snowfall in the area.

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1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Sounds right.  The minimum temperature here (Smithtown) on 1/4/2014 was 0.  The previous day (1/3/2014) had a min of 8 and max of 16 with 8.5" of snow.  Not the highest snowfall in the area.

Thanks.  I remember the snowy scene but forgot it was from literally the day before.  If there was such a thing as a winter wonderland index based on snow and cold, Jan 4, 2014 would be a top 5.

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13 minutes ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

Thanks.  I remember the snowy scene but forgot it was from literally the day before.  If there was such a thing as a winter wonderland index based on snow and cold, Jan 4, 2014 would be a top 5.

Nothing better then a real cold snow storm. There were a bunch of good one in the 13/14-14/15 winters 

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nothing like a major storm with a foot or more of snow with temperatures in the teens and single digits and near ten as the storm ends...not to mention strong winds...Dec 1960, Jan 1961, Jan 1964 and Feb 67 were storms in that category...2004 and 2014 had cold snowstorms but not like those 1960's storms...Jan 1965 had a 5" event with a max of 17...Jan 2018 was the last time a cold wave followed a major storm...the storm itself was in the 20's when snow was falling...

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1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Sounds right.  The minimum temperature here (Smithtown) on 1/4/2014 was 0.  The previous day (1/3/2014) had a min of 8 and max of 16 with 8.5" of snow.  Not the highest snowfall in the area.

I'm not even sure Valentines Day 2016 was colder on Long Island, I think only NYC and points west got to 0 and below.

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1 hour ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

Thanks.  I remember the snowy scene but forgot it was from literally the day before.  If there was such a thing as a winter wonderland index based on snow and cold, Jan 4, 2014 would be a top 5.

Wasn't there another storm shortly after that where we were ripping snow with single-digit temperatures.  For me, that was peak deep-winter!

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15 minutes ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said:

Cold and snow, no monster storms I remember, unlike 77-78, but 76-77 had snow and serious cold, below zero on Long Island.  I delivered the Daily News as a kid then.

Us Newsday kids would be in awe/confusion over the Daily News paperboy.   "Wait, they get up and deliver their papers BEFORE school?"  Meanwhile, the Newsday customers were getting their papers at 5PM.  Who would even stand for that today lol.

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Islip recordk minimums...

       
1/8 -1 in 1968 5 in 1981 5 in 1970
1/9 -4 in 1981 -4 in 1968 3 in 1970
       
1/12 -4 in 1981 4 in 1968 8 in 1988+
       
1/14 -4 in 1988 5 in 1981 6 in 2011
1/15 -7 in 1988 -4 in 1965 1 in 2004
       
1/18 -8 in 1965 -2 in 1982 -0 in 1977
       
1/22 -7 in 1984 1 in 2005 4 in 1991
       
       
2/4 -1 in 1965 7 in 1978 7 in 1970
       
2/8 -2 in 1967 8 in 1972 10 in 1966
       
2/11 -2 in 1979 3 in 1978 5 in 1968
2/12 -6 in 1979 -2 in 1967 3 in 1968
2/13 -14 in 1967 4 in 2016 5 in 1979
       
2/18 -2 in 1979 7 in 2015 9 in 1973
       
2/20 2 in 2015 8 in 1979 8 in 1966
2/21 2 in 2015 2 in 1968 5 in 1978
       
2/24 3 in 2015 11 in 1967 11 in 1965
       
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3/18 -0 in 1967 14 in 1993 18 in 1981
3/19 -0 in 1967 15 in 1993 20 in 2015
       
3/26 12 in 1974 22 in 1975 24 in 2014
       
3/31 19 in 1964 24 in 1969 25 in 
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3 hours ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

Us Newsday kids would be in awe/confusion over the Daily News paperboy.   "Wait, they get up and deliver their papers BEFORE school?"  Meanwhile, the Newsday customers were getting their papers at 5PM.  Who would even stand for that today lol.

What's a newspaper?

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