Another intense Great Lakes storm late Friday 1/12 with the brunt of 1" rain/shore gusts ~50 MPH Friday night, followed by widespread west gusts 40- possibly 50 MPH late Sat-Sun 1/13-14/2024. This serves as the OBS thread late Fri onward.

[nycsnow]

Major flooding in rockaway and broad channel right now, cross bay blvd closed by Russos 

[jm1220]

Very dicey in parts of Oceanside/Island Park. Some side streets closed and main roads have a lot of water. W Park Ave in Long Beach also closed. 

[BxEngine]

Stony point/haverstraw by the river are in bad shape this morning. Numerous water related rescues and issues. 

[bluewave]

47 minutes ago, weathermedic said:

Definitely more tidal flooding today than the last storm. Meadowbrook Pky, Wantagh Pky near Jones Beach under water. Parts of Howard Beach and Broad Channel under water along with a couple of blocks of Cross Bay Blvd in Queens.

Edit: Island Park LIRR station also flooded.

8.61 ft is the 8th highest tide on record at the Battery.

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=okx&gage=batn6

 

Historic Crests
(1) 13.88 ft on 10/29/2012
(2) 10.02 ft on 09/12/1960
(3) 9.70 ft on 12/11/1992
(4) 9.51 ft on 08/28/2011
(5) 9.12 ft on 11/25/1950
(6) 8.92 ft on 03/06/1962
(7) 8.73 ft on 10/31/1991
(8) 8.53 ft on 03/29/1984
(9) 8.51 ft on 03/14/2010
(10) 8.36 ft on 03/14/1993

 

[bkviking]

Flooding in Port Jefferson LI 

[Rmine1]

Moses took a beating, but more incredible is that the GSB appears to have grown by 20% overnight. It’s a combination of factors, new breaches etc, but Captree Island(west side of RM bridge, Seganus Thatch, Grass Island are all basically under water. Maybe it’s temporary, maybe it’s not, either way the long term effects are significant.

take the drive and see 

[hooralph]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2DCfTxrJux/?igsh=d29ibjUyZm5vdmR6

[bkviking]

Someone actually drove through water and they got stuck. The police had put up the warnings but people drove  through it. Gotta love it. 

[MANDA]

Just now, bkviking said:

Someone actually drove through water and they got stuck. The police had put up the warnings but people drove  through it. Gotta love it. 

Some people are just a special kind of stupid.

[bluewave]

Highest tide on record for Portland, Maine.

Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Gray ME
1244 PM EST Sat Jan 13 2024

...New Flood of Record at the Portland Maine Tide Gauge...

At 12:06 pm...the water level at the Portland Tide gauge
registered 14.57 feet MLLW. This breaks the all time record at
this location of 14.17 feet MLLW set in 1978. Records at the
Portland gauge extend back to 1912.

Water levels will be reviewed to determine if any adjustments are
necessary to this preliminary value.

 

 

 

[MANDA]

3 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Highest tide on record for Portland, Maine.

 

Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Gray ME
1244 PM EST Sat Jan 13 2024

...New Flood of Record at the Portland Maine Tide Gauge...

At 12:06 pm...the water level at the Portland Tide gauge
registered 14.57 feet MLLW. This breaks the all time record at
this location of 14.17 feet MLLW set in 1978. Records at the
Portland gauge extend back to 1912.

Water levels will be reviewed to determine if any adjustments are
necessary to this preliminary value.

 

 

 

My guess the Blizzard of 78?

[bluewave]

1 minute ago, MANDA said:

My guess the Blizzard of 78?

Yeah, this one reached 14.57 ft vs 14.17 in 1978.

[donsutherland1]

Some photos of the storm tide in Mamaroneck, NY. Some yards and basements were flooded.

[NorthShoreWx]

Nice photos Don.  I hope your house wasn't flooded.

Ended with 1.11" rainfall here.

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, MANDA said:

Some people are just a special kind of stupid.

One of these years, amphibious vehicles will be mandatory in our part of the country. 

[LibertyBell]

5 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Very dicey in parts of Oceanside/Island Park. Some side streets closed and main roads have a lot of water. W Park Ave in Long Beach also closed. 

it's crazy it's so bad, neither of these storms can even hold a candle to how powerful December 1992 was.

[LibertyBell]

5 hours ago, bluewave said:

8.61 ft is the 8th highest tide on record at the Battery.

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=okx&gage=batn6

 

Historic Crests
(1) 13.88 ft on 10/29/2012
(2) 10.02 ft on 09/12/1960
(3) 9.70 ft on 12/11/1992
(4) 9.51 ft on 08/28/2011
(5) 9.12 ft on 11/25/1950
(6) 8.92 ft on 03/06/1962
(7) 8.73 ft on 10/31/1991
(8) 8.53 ft on 03/29/1984
(9) 8.51 ft on 03/14/2010
(10) 8.36 ft on 03/14/1993

 

What happened on 9/12/60? I thought December 1992 was first until Sandy superseded it.

 

[Nibor]

Huge wind gusts just rolled through here. LGA is going to have some impressive recordings. 

[Picard]

4 minutes ago, Nibor said:

Huge wind gusts just rolled through here. LGA is going to have some impressive recordings. 

It's windier today at our house than Tuesday night's storm.  We've lost several branches today.

[NorthShoreWx]

11 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

What happened on 9/12/60? I thought December 1992 was first until Sandy superseded it.

 

Hurricane Donna

[LibertyBell]

1 minute ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Hurricane Donna

Oh that's right!  Thanks, Ed.  Interesting thing about Donna is, it made landfall east of Gloria but the surge was higher in the city-- is this because it had a much larger eye?  Both were Cat 1 at our latitude I think? I don't remember what the result of the reanalysis was in either case.

and as an aside OMG the wind is really bad right now.

[LibertyBell]

9 minutes ago, Nibor said:

Huge wind gusts just rolled through here. LGA is going to have some impressive recordings. 

My house just shook, it had to be 60 mph +

We just got the same gust you did earlier, so JFK must have some impressive gust reports too.

[Stormlover74]

Very windy. Should have an advisory

[Allsnow]

1 minute ago, Stormlover74 said:

Very windy. Should have an advisory

Better winds here tonight then the last system

[donsutherland1]

1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Nice photos Don.  I hope your house wasn't flooded.

Ended with 1.11" rainfall here.

Thanks. I had no flooding.

[kat5hurricane]

1 hour ago, Nibor said:

Huge wind gusts just rolled through here. LGA is going to have some impressive recordings. 

Not too far from LaGuardia, in Bayside right now, and the winds are shaking my car. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some 50+ mph gusts mixed in there. Seems windier than the last more hyped system.

[guinness77]

1 hour ago, Nibor said:

Huge wind gusts just rolled through here. LGA is going to have some impressive recordings. 

I’m guessing I’ve gotten higher gusts in the last hour or so than I got last night. 

[dWave]

High tide Glen Island New Rochelle

[LibertyBell]

14 hours ago, kat5hurricane said:

Not too far from LaGuardia, in Bayside right now, and the winds are shaking my car. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some 50+ mph gusts mixed in there. Seems windier than the last more hyped system.

it wasn't just near LGA, I live near JFK and the winds were rocking last night even after midnight!

[bluewave]