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Just now, LibertyBell said:

I didn't even remember that we had a blizzard warning for this lol.

 

Yep-48 hrs it looked great and then the usual N and W creep started.    Locally we got about 8-9 inches then sleet so was a decent storm but not the 12-18 predicted.

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LibertyBell

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16 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

 

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 79 (2007)
NYC: 75 (1946)
LGA: 75 (1946)
JFK: 72 (2012)


Lows:

EWR: 17 (1993)
NYC: 12 (1888)
LGA: 18 (1993)
JFK: 19 (1993)


Historical: 

 

1870 - The term blizzard was first applied to a storm which produced heavy snow and high winds in Minnesota and Iowa. (David Ludlum)

 

1933: A deadly tornado outbreak affected the Middle Tennessee region, including Nashville, on this day. The outbreak, which produced five or more tornadoes, killed 44 people and injured at least 461 others. The strongest tornado, F3, cut a path through the center of Nashville. About 1,400 homes were damaged or destroyed. Windows were blown out of the State Capitol Building.

1935: Suffocating dust storms frequently occurred in southeast Colorado between the 12th and the 25th of the month. Six people died, and many livestock starved or suffocated. Up to six feet of dust covered the ground. Schools were closed, and tenants deserted many rural homes.  

1944 - A single storm brought a record 21.6 inches of snow to Salt Lake City UT. (The Weather Channel)

1960 - Northern Georgia was between snowstorms. Gainesville GA received 17 inches of snow during the month, and reported at least a trace of snow on the ground 22 days in March. Snow was on roofs in Hartwell GA from the 2nd to the 29th. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - A powerful storm in the western U.S. produced 15 inches of snow in the Lake Tahoe Basin of Nevada, and wind gusts to 50 mph at Las Vegas NV. Thunderstorms in the Sacramento Valley of California spawned a tornado which hit a turkey farm near Corning. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Squalls in the Great Lakes Region continued to produce heavy snow in northwest Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and produced up to 14 inches of snow in northeast Ohio. Poplar WI reported 27 inches of snow in two days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - High winds in Colorado and Wyoming gusted above 120 mph at Horsetooth Heights CO. High winds in the Central Plains sharply reduced visibilities in blowing dust as far east as Kansas City MO. Winds gusting to 72 mph at Hill City KS reduced the visibility to a city block in blowing dust. Soil erosion in northwest Kansas damaged nearly five million acres of wheat. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1990 - Fifty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes Region. Charleston WV was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 89 degrees. It was the fourth of five consecutive days with record warm tempeatures for many cities in the eastern U.S. There were 283 daily record highs reported in the central and eastern U.S. during between the 11th and the 15th of March. (The National Weather Summary)

2007 - The temperature in Concord, NH, reaches a record high of 74 degrees less than one week after a record low temperature of 7 degrees below zero on March 8, an 81 degree temperature swing in six days.

 

2008: An EF2 tornado moved through downtown Atlanta, Georgia, shortly before 10 pm, damaging the Georgia Dome where the SEC men's basketball tournament was underway. 

 

1990 - Fifty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes Region. Charleston WV was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 89 degrees. It was the fourth of five consecutive days with record warm tempeatures for many cities in the eastern U.S. There were 283 daily record highs reported in the central and eastern U.S. during between the 11th and the 15th of March. (The National Weather Summary)

 

Just a historic March 1990 wow

 

and those record lows 3 years later on the same date....

 

Lows:

EWR: 17 (1993)
NYC: 12 (1888)
LGA: 18 (1993)
JFK: 19 (1993)

 

NYC still couldn't beat the records from 1888

 

1960 - Northern Georgia was between snowstorms. Gainesville GA received 17 inches of snow during the month, and reported at least a trace of snow on the ground 22 days in March. Snow was on roofs in Hartwell GA from the 2nd to the 29th. (The Weather Channel)

 

March 1960 was the rare cold and snowy month that was a great winter month for both South AND North!

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1990 - Fifty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes Region. Charleston WV was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 89 degrees. It was the fourth of five consecutive days with record warm tempeatures for many cities in the eastern U.S. There were 283 daily record highs reported in the central and eastern U.S. during between the 11th and the 15th of March. (The National Weather Summary)

 

Just a historic March 1990 wow

 

 

 

March 1990:  Newark

 

Highs

3/13: 86
3/14: 67
3/15: 79
3/16: 82
3/17: 78
 

 

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26 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I like that red spot in NE PA, what was the total in Mt Pocono from this storm, over 30 inches Tony?

 

  • 56 inches at Mount LeConte, Tennessee
  • 50 inches at Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, with 14-foot drifts
  • 44 inches at Snowshoe, West Virginia
  • 43 inches at Syracuse, New York
  • 36 inches at Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with 10-foot drifts
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40 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Was a hugger in the end--I remember it inching closer and closer in the last 48 hrs, however today, we'd love a storm like this!

NAM was first to see it getting closer than ideal

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2 hours ago, Sundog said:

Yesterday was really nice. I kind of like the wind.

Around the city and inland away from the water the wind goes dead for long stretches with dewpoints in the mid 70s, that's the worst part of summer for me. 

 

 

The winds just make cleaning up the yard difficult.  You think you got it into a pile then mother nature says...psychhhhhhhhh yea right!  And now your dog is chasing a leaf pile around the yard.

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8 minutes ago, Sundog said:

NAM was first to see it getting closer than ideal

Yep-the NAM is always good at that stuff as well as finding the sneaky mid level warmth that's always further north than expected...but we'd gladly take this storm in any month lately (let alone March) given the lack of anything decent over the last 3-4 yrs

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20 hours ago, bluewave said:

It has been the 2nd driest late August to mid-March on record in NYC. The actual rainfall has been similar the same as the 2001-2002 drought. So those departures are legit since they match the actual amounts. There has only been 14.73” since August 23rd.

Time Series Summary for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.
1 2002-03-13 14.25 0
2 2025-03-13 14.73 1
3 1947-03-13 15.23 0
4 1932-03-13 16.08 0
5 1966-03-13 16.10 0
6 1880-03-13 16.64 0
7 1954-03-13 16.87 0
- 1876-03-13 16.87 0
8 1905-03-13 17.05 0
9 1897-03-13 17.07 0
10 1992-03-13 17.12 0

 

The biggest drought in the NYC metro area in over 23 years but according to some, nothing to see here. Normal. Fake drought. It’s not real…..

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2 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

The biggest drought in the NYC metro area in over 23 years but according to some, nothing to see here. Normal. Fake drought. It’s not real…..

it's like with the temperatures, we compare it to long term normals vs recent normals.

We also need to discuss the highly abnormal amounts of rain of the past 20 years.

If we end up with annual rainfall in the 40-45 inch range it's still normal.  If it's below 40 inches then I'd start to get worried.

 

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https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralPark/monthlyannualprecip.pdf

 

We haven't had under 40 inches of rain in any year since 2012.

 

Even 2002 had 45 inches of rain.

2001 had 35 inches of rain, that drought must have started then.

 

From 1869 to 1971 there was not a single year in NYC with 60 inches of rainfall.  The first time it happened was in 1972.

 

Since 2006 it's happened 6 times.

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4 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

i am only concerned about the drought if water reservoir levels are 50% or less that is not the case currently they are at 82.6 percent.

Which ones are at those levels?  Some small ones in Passaic and Morris Counties are barely surviving.

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13 minutes ago, steve392 said:

Which ones are at those levels?  Some small ones in Passaic and Morris Counties are barely surviving.

That last event with over 1.5 inches of rain hopefully helped.  We'll be okay if we get 1-1.5 inch rainfall events every 10 days or so.

People like nice weather lol.  At least we aren't getting the horrible flooding that causes rivers in those counties to rise out of their banks and make people have to abandon their homes which was happening every year for the last few years until now.

 

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7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Haha this is awesome.  Lots of money in this for any prospective space colonies we might build.

PS you must have had an awesome view of the eclipse, I thought of you guys when I saw all the clear skies to the N&W.... did you get to see it, Rob? I woke up at 2:30 and waited until 3:30 but there wasn't even a little break in the clouds =\

 

Same here, not a sky in the clouds. Was fully visible earlier around 7pm.

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