March 2025

[LibertyBell]

7 hours ago, nycwinter said:

superstorm of 93 a storm you may never see again in our lifetime everything came together..

There are much rarer events we will never see again:

April 1982

December 1992

Octoblizzard 2011

 

[Allsnow]

Msp getting crushed 

[ag3]

9 hours ago, forkyfork said:

another -nao ridge bridge 

Nice. Bring in a torch.

[Sundog]

7 minutes ago, ag3 said:

Nice. Bring in a torch.

I'll take normal, thank you.

[Dark Star]

So the bulk of the rain today stays to our west?

[EastonSN+]

2 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

There are much rarer events we will never see again:

April 1982

December 1992

Octoblizzard 2011

 

This is actually an interesting debate on the rarity of each of the events. 

If I had a guess which one we would likely see sooner if at all would be April 1982. If I had a guess which one we would never see again in our lifetimes it would be 1993.

[Allsnow]

@MJO812

late season rally for Msp 

 

 

[Sundog]

14 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

So the bulk of the rain today stays to our west?

Models have an average of an inch along 95

[SnoSki14]

15 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

So the bulk of the rain today stays to our west?

Looks like a squall type line will come through later dropping a good inch on most. 

[LibertyBell]

18 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

This is actually an interesting debate on the rarity of each of the events. 

If I had a guess which one we would likely see sooner if at all would be April 1982. If I had a guess which one we would never see again in our lifetimes it would be 1993.

The whole experience with 4/82 had to do with temperatures in the teens in April with blizzard conditions.

3/93 to me was just a 10-12 inch snowstorm with windy conditions that changed over.

 

[EastonSN+]

10 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

The whole experience with 4/82 had to do with temperatures in the teens in April with blizzard conditions.

3/93 to me was just a 10-12 inch snowstorm with windy conditions that changed over.

 

For me 1993 had more to do with the effects down south and the Appalachians. Also the strength of the storm and the severe storm outbreak in Florida during the storm. 

I can see April 1982 happening with a late sswe and a cross polar flow. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime but of the four would pick this.

[TriPol]

1 hour ago, EastonSN+ said:

This is actually an interesting debate on the rarity of each of the events. 

If I had a guess which one we would likely see sooner if at all would be April 1982. If I had a guess which one we would never see again in our lifetimes it would be 1993.

What the hell went wrong with the old computer models for the blizzard of 1982? Any ameture meteorologist would have been able to see this coming a mile away today. How were we hit by surprise so hard?

[Dark Star]

Today marks the anniversary of the biggest bust of all time in the NYC metro area (2001).

 

 

[Brian5671]

5 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

Today marks the anniversary of the biggest bust of all time in the NYC metro area (2001).

 

 

Huge areas shut down for an inch of slop....lol.  Still got about 10 inches here but it was mostly Monday night.

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, Dark Star said:

So the bulk of the rain today stays to our west?

The new NAM has 1-2 inches region wide

[MJO812]

8 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Huge areas shut down for an inch of slop....lol.  Still got about 10 inches here but it was mostly Monday night.

20-30+ was forecasted. Schools were closed.

 

Got 5 inches 

[Dark Star]

14 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

20-30+ was forecasted. Schools were closed.

 

Got 5 inches 

I do remember hearing Brooklyn actually got some snow out of it...

[Dark Star]

23 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

The new NAM has 1-2 inches region wide

I guess just from a relatively brief downpour?

[vegan_edible]

unbelievably stoked to get the salt washed out of here... 

terrible for the environment, terrible for us, and for selfish reasons, the weather has been nice and ive been able to skate more regularly. but, the salt does a lovely job of ruining the bearings in my wheels. like absolutely kills them. so for a multitude of reasons, i dont think ive ever been so excited for rain

[Sundog]

38 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Huge areas shut down for an inch of slop....lol.  Still got about 10 inches here but it was mostly Monday night.

 

You got real lucky. I had an inch or two on grass and cars. 

[Sundog]

9 minutes ago, vegan_edible said:

unbelievably stoked to get the salt washed out of here... 

terrible for the environment, terrible for us, and for selfish reasons, the weather has been nice and ive been able to skate more regularly. but, the salt does a lovely job of ruining the bearings in my wheels. like absolutely kills them. so for a multitude of reasons, i dont think ive ever been so excited for rain

The last "event" that dropped a coating to an inch and was gone by the next evening is at fault, they dropped 100 gigatons of salt on the streets for practically nothing. 

[vegan_edible]

10 minutes ago, Sundog said:

The last "event" that dropped a coating to an inch and was gone by the next evening is at fault, they dropped 100 gigatons of salt on the streets for practically nothing. 

seriously, that was ridiculous 

[Stormlover74]

45 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

I guess just from a relatively brief downpour?

About 4 hours of rain with a squall line between 5 and 6

[weatherpruf]

2 hours ago, EastonSN+ said:

This is actually an interesting debate on the rarity of each of the events. 

If I had a guess which one we would likely see sooner if at all would be April 1982. If I had a guess which one we would never see again in our lifetimes it would be 1993.

I think locally we will see a 93 type event here with less than a foot and mixing, but not one that is coastal and delivers 2 feet to Knoxville as well. April 92? Seen April events a few times, none like that one since; it just doesn't get that cold in April anymore. I'd pick OCt as the one we won't likely see again. 

[snowman19]

17 hours ago, Wxoutlooksblog said:

I think the coldest we are going to see from this point is highs in the lower 40s and lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s but I think over most of the next 2 weeks except for just a couple of days 50s+ we'll see highs upper 40s and lows lower 30s. I do not think the NYC Metro Region will see any more accumulating snows. Maybe a flurry. I think there is a 50% chance we hit 70 degrees briefly on one of the warmer days in the next 2 weeks.

WX/PT

Agreed. Winter ended on 2/20 with the overnight ULL light snow event. I think we’re very likely done with true arctic cold and accumulating snows until December

[weatherpruf]

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

April 1982 I want to see that again, April 1996, April 2003 and April 2018 were also pretty good.

 

April 82 was a legit big storm and cold; the others ( 96 didn't even flurry over here ) were all minor events but cool to look at.

[weatherpruf]

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

December 1992 was superior to March 1993 though.  Living through December 1992, that was a much rarer more unique more powerful storm for us.

If you like torrential rains and flooding sure, but I can get that with a summer storm. It had some flurries here at the tail end. There was also the Perfect Storm of Oct 1991, notable for the book and movie...but that was a, well, what was it really?

[weatherpruf]

2 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

The whole experience with 4/82 had to do with temperatures in the teens in April with blizzard conditions.

3/93 to me was just a 10-12 inch snowstorm with windy conditions that changed over.

 

It was the ice on top; that was very rare, several inches of ice and so snow removal operations were stymied; I had to use a garden spade to dig out; people dug tunnels, in effect, in the urban areas to get their cars in and out, and it. stayed frozen for days. In Kocin's book, he has a phot of people trying to scale a wall of ice in Manhattan.

[LibertyBell]

4 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

If you like torrential rains and flooding sure, but I can get that with a summer storm. It had some flurries here at the tail end. There was also the Perfect Storm of Oct 1991, notable for the book and movie...but that was a, well, what was it really?

October 1991 was just wind without much precip-- you know I really hate that.  The skies were mostly clear too, which was weird for such a windy storm.

The longevity and extreme winds plus the rains and storm surge for multiple high tide cycles are what made December 1992 unique, plus it was in news cycles for a whole week it looked the entire city was going to drown.

 

[LibertyBell]

Just now, weatherpruf said:

It was the ice on top; that was very rare, several inches of ice and so snow removal operations were stymied; I had to use a garden spade to dig out; people dug tunnels, in effect, in the urban areas to get their cars in and out, and it. stayed frozen for days. In Kocin's book, he has a phot of people trying to scale a wall of ice in Manhattan.

Do you think we had more ice in March 1993 or March 2007-- which was 5-6 inches of sleet here.