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NYC/PHL Dec 26-27 Boxing Day Blizzard Part 10

yhbrooklyn

By yhbrooklyn,
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nzucker

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You guys know what else I realized this is also unique that there was no sleet ice etc. Even 96 had a few hours of sleet here south Brooklyn during the Hight of the storm. This one was pure snow.

This was a very cold storm for our area, although ratios would have been much more impressive without the insane winds. I got down to 17.5F in the heaviest banding and had a high of 27.1F in the hours before its beginning, basically an awe-inspiring airmass for December. I've already recorded many more sub-freezing highs than in entire mild winters like 98-99 and 01-02, and it's only December 26th with a couple more coming this week. Ponds here are frozen solid with a heavy coating of snow on top and streets had accumulations as soon as the event began...good stuff. Not an ultra-arctic airmass like PDII but definitely a noteworthy aspect of the storm, and this month, has been the persistent cold.

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Man oh man, the snow just doesn't want to end in NYC... still <1/2 mi. vis., winds gusting into the 40s... just heard a report from Central Park of 15.5"... it's about an hour old so assume they are past 16... and it really does look like that band wants to drop 2-3 in the next few hours...

Here on the S. Tip of the island, we are approaching 18 - but as usual in fluffy/windy storms, it's very tough to measure.

This goes down as the #4 synoptic event of my life, barely eeking out 2/5/2001... I've never seen so many abandoned cars in the city - I really think the ferocity of this storm really took a lot of people by surprise.

And the 3 lightning strikes that I witnessed tonight while walking outside may have been the most remarkable moments of my life... people were totally baffled!

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BL03

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where in SI? wheres the store in bklyn?

I hear SI (Great Kills) 27"

I live close to the College of Staten Island....... Westerleigh.. Uncle W lived very close but I think he moved a little.

In BK the store is in Park Slope..

Back to the storm talk.... :)

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Things are rapidly ending here now..and the radar confirms it. I'm off for a few hours of sleep..and I will never sleep so happy. Just an unbelievable day.

Before I go I have to give one more shoutout to everybody in this thread. Just an absolutely incredible 5-7 days of discussion. This thread has improved ten-fold over the past few winters, and for everybody involved in this event you should really take it all in. This is a really historic event when you put it into perspective. People are going to come in with 30" reports...and two days ago this storm was modeled (by every model) to head 300 miles out to sea. Event's like these do not occur very often in the current day of technology we have in the field of meteorology. They talk about the surprise bust, or the surprise event...there's a reason these are so few and far between nowadays. The guidance we have is so good, that these are becoming exceedingly rare.

But for everybody who stayed up late each night, talking about the GEFS mean departures and the big block, everybody who spoke about the amplitude of the ridge axis and it's positioning over Boise, everybody who stayed up and watched the southern stream shortwave come onshore, everybody who was deflated as the heights were just a "hair" too deamplified on the east coast, everybody who watched the models dig a huge northern stream shortwave into the Plains and phase in the shortwave, everybody who literally couldn't believe what they were seeing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day modeling as the GFS, Euro, GGEM, Uk, etc all came on board, and everybody who posted in this thread or added a single ounce of discussion, or learned something...this storm was for you...and I hope you all enjoyed every single flake of it. So thank you. I certainly enjoyed every moment of it.

And now for a long winters nap. Tons of shoveling to do in the morning. Totally worth it.

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Things are rapidly ending here now..and the radar confirms it. I'm off for a few hours of sleep..and I will never sleep so happy. Just an unbelievable day.

Before I go I have to give one more shoutout to everybody in this thread. Just an absolutely incredible 5-7 days of discussion. This thread has improved ten-fold over the past few winters, and for everybody involved in this event you should really take it all in. This is a really historic event when you put it into perspective. People are going to come in with 30" reports...and two days ago this storm was modeled (by every model) to head 300 miles out to sea. Event's like these do not occur very often in the current day of technology we have in the field of meteorology. They talk about the surprise bust, or the surprise event...there's a reason these are so few and far between nowadays. The guidance we have is so good, that these are becoming exceedingly rare.

But for everybody who stayed up late each night, talking about the GEFS mean departures and the big block, everybody who spoke about the amplitude of the ridge axis and it's positioning over Boise, everybody who stayed up and watched the southern stream shortwave come onshore, everybody who was deflated as the heights were just a "hair" too deamplified on the east coast, everybody who watched the models dig a huge northern stream shortwave into the Plains and phase in the shortwave, everybody who literally couldn't believe what they were seeing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day modeling as the GFS, Euro, GGEM, Uk, etc all came on board, and everybody who posted in this thread or added a single ounce of discussion, or learned something...this storm was for you...and I hope you all enjoyed every single flake of it. So thank you. I certainly enjoyed every moment of it.

And now for a long winters nap. Tons of shoveling to do in the morning. Totally worth it.

Yea Boyeeeeee....

good stuff Earthlight. Thanks!

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Things are rapidly ending here now..and the radar confirms it. I'm off for a few hours of sleep..and I will never sleep so happy. Just an unbelievable day.

Before I go I have to give one more shoutout to everybody in this thread. Just an absolutely incredible 5-7 days of discussion. This thread has improved ten-fold over the past few winters, and for everybody involved in this event you should really take it all in. This is a really historic event when you put it into perspective. People are going to come in with 30" reports...and two days ago this storm was modeled (by every model) to head 300 miles out to sea. Event's like these do not occur very often in the current day of technology we have in the field of meteorology. They talk about the surprise bust, or the surprise event...there's a reason these are so few and far between nowadays. The guidance we have is so good, that these are becoming exceedingly rare.

But for everybody who stayed up late each night, talking about the GEFS mean departures and the big block, everybody who spoke about the amplitude of the ridge axis and it's positioning over Boise, everybody who stayed up and watched the southern stream shortwave come onshore, everybody who was deflated as the heights were just a "hair" too deamplified on the east coast, everybody who watched the models dig a huge northern stream shortwave into the Plains and phase in the shortwave, everybody who literally couldn't believe what they were seeing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day modeling as the GFS, Euro, GGEM, Uk, etc all came on board, and everybody who posted in this thread or added a single ounce of discussion, or learned something...this storm was for you...and I hope you all enjoyed every single flake of it. So thank you. I certainly enjoyed every moment of it.

And now for a long winters nap. Tons of shoveling to do in the morning. Totally worth it.

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Glad to see everyone so happy. This was a NYC-Philly storm in the Northern MA. Looks like Boston , predicted to do better, won't.

In the pantheon of great storms, this logs in as merely "special". In '96, while still living in Philly, we got 33" plus. An 18" inch storm here is business as usual, but the winds are great.

After the roller-coaster week of projections, we all got the storm. Win, win I'd say.

By the by, Philly forecast to pick up more snow today. I'm assuming it is some more deformation banding, but I don't see POPS as high in NYC as in Philly.

Well, I should see if my old friend made it over here from Eastern. I'm still owed a Peter Luger dinner from last February.

Nice to be back to say hello. Nicer still to be back in Philly.

Be safe everyone.

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Things are rapidly ending here now..and the radar confirms it. I'm off for a few hours of sleep..and I will never sleep so happy. Just an unbelievable day.

Before I go I have to give one more shoutout to everybody in this thread. Just an absolutely incredible 5-7 days of discussion. This thread has improved ten-fold over the past few winters, and for everybody involved in this event you should really take it all in. This is a really historic event when you put it into perspective. People are going to come in with 30" reports...and two days ago this storm was modeled (by every model) to head 300 miles out to sea. Event's like these do not occur very often in the current day of technology we have in the field of meteorology. They talk about the surprise bust, or the surprise event...there's a reason these are so few and far between nowadays. The guidance we have is so good, that these are becoming exceedingly rare.

But for everybody who stayed up late each night, talking about the GEFS mean departures and the big block, everybody who spoke about the amplitude of the ridge axis and it's positioning over Boise, everybody who stayed up and watched the southern stream shortwave come onshore, everybody who was deflated as the heights were just a "hair" too deamplified on the east coast, everybody who watched the models dig a huge northern stream shortwave into the Plains and phase in the shortwave, everybody who literally couldn't believe what they were seeing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day modeling as the GFS, Euro, GGEM, Uk, etc all came on board, and everybody who posted in this thread or added a single ounce of discussion, or learned something...this storm was for you...and I hope you all enjoyed every single flake of it. So thank you. I certainly enjoyed every moment of it.

And now for a long winters nap. Tons of shoveling to do in the morning. Totally worth it.

Great post. I, as am sure many others have, appreciated your insight while tracking this storm. What a redonkulous one it turned out to be, I hope we get to do this again this winter :thumbsup:

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Things are rapidly ending here now..and the radar confirms it. I'm off for a few hours of sleep..and I will never sleep so happy. Just an unbelievable day.

Before I go I have to give one more shoutout to everybody in this thread. Just an absolutely incredible 5-7 days of discussion. This thread has improved ten-fold over the past few winters, and for everybody involved in this event you should really take it all in. This is a really historic event when you put it into perspective. People are going to come in with 30" reports...and two days ago this storm was modeled (by every model) to head 300 miles out to sea. Event's like these do not occur very often in the current day of technology we have in the field of meteorology. They talk about the surprise bust, or the surprise event...there's a reason these are so few and far between nowadays. The guidance we have is so good, that these are becoming exceedingly rare.

But for everybody who stayed up late each night, talking about the GEFS mean departures and the big block, everybody who spoke about the amplitude of the ridge axis and it's positioning over Boise, everybody who stayed up and watched the southern stream shortwave come onshore, everybody who was deflated as the heights were just a "hair" too deamplified on the east coast, everybody who watched the models dig a huge northern stream shortwave into the Plains and phase in the shortwave, everybody who literally couldn't believe what they were seeing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day modeling as the GFS, Euro, GGEM, Uk, etc all came on board, and everybody who posted in this thread or added a single ounce of discussion, or learned something...this storm was for you...and I hope you all enjoyed every single flake of it. So thank you. I certainly enjoyed every moment of it.

And now for a long winters nap. Tons of shoveling to do in the morning. Totally worth it.

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Man, I love you. LOL

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BL03

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By the way, in case nobody noticed a few of the mesoscale models got the location of the super band dead on in this storm over eastern NJ.

I got to say the mega band was pretty easy to forecast/ see coming based on the short range model runs... probably the best/ easiest since I have started tracking imo.

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I was reading the Public Information Statements out of OKX, did Newerk get 13 Inches of snow in 5 hours this evening? That's pretty darn impressive.

I think so... because im in Staten Island just East of Newark and the difference from like 7ish to 1ish was just amazing.

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