The 78 loop was one in a million.  Our storms now a days are 6 to 12 hours

 

That one two full days

4 minutes ago, USAwx said:

The 78 loop was one in a million.  Out storms now a days are 6 to 12 hours

 

That one two full days

I will never forget Storm Field coming on at 630PM and declaring the storm over. The backlash was yet to come. 
 

The backlash was incredible from 9PM till I went to bed at Midnight and it continued till the early morning. The winds were 2nd to the Boxing Day Blizzard. Just an incredible storm. 

I remember noaa weather radio nailing the Feb 1978 blizzard...they did not do well with the January blizzard though...The January 19-20th storm was the first big storm since Feb 69 and it was bigger than the Feb storm in some places...

11 minutes ago, uncle w said:

I remember noaa weather radio nailing the Feb 1978 blizzard...they did not do well with the January blizzard though...The January 19-20th storm was the first big storm since Feb 69 and it was bigger than the Feb storm in some places...

Part of the issue with Feb 78 is no one trusted the forecast because of how bad they had been

1 minute ago, USAwx said:

Part of the issue with Feb 78 is no one trusted the forecast because of how bad they had been

there were six major storms in 30 days...The first was rain ending as snow with winds on 1/9...The second was snow turning to sleet and ice 1/13...The third was snow turning to rain...1/16...Then the big January storm...1/19-20...Major rain storm and inland blizzard near the end of January 1/25...Feb 6th blizzard 2/6.....Possibly the stormiest month on record...

28 minutes ago, uncle w said:

there were six major storms in 30 days...The first was rain ending as snow with winds on 1/9...The second was snow turning to sleet and ice 1/13...The third was snow turning to rain...1/16...Then the big January storm...1/19-20...Major rain storm and inland blizzard near the end of January 1/25...Feb 6th blizzard 2/6.....Possibly the stormiest month on record...

6 consecutive storms with at least 1 inch of precipitation. We have a hard time doing that once now during the winter.

8 years ago on Aug 12-13 2014 Islip recorded over 13 inches in just a few hours including 2 hours of 5 inch per hour rates and 1.08 in just 8 minutes. 
 

This was nearly twice as bad as what happened during The remains of Ida last year in NYC. 

3 hours ago, Andrew said:

8 years ago on Aug 12-13 2014 Islip recorded over 13 inches in just a few hours including 2 hours of 5 inch per hour rates and 1.08 in just 8 minutes. 
 

This was nearly twice as bad as what happened during The remains of Ida last year in NYC. 

 

 

https://www.weather.gov/okx/HistoricFlooding_081314

 

 

 

 

If you saw this on the models would you even track it?   Blizzard of 83

No closed H5 weak LP wtf

 

5 hours ago, USAwx said:

No closed H5 weak LP wtf

it did close off prior for a bit 

 

 

3 minutes ago, CooL said:

it did close off prior for a bit 

 

 

thank you

When Paul Kocin would come on 

1 minute ago, Blizzard said:

When Paul Kocin would come on 

wrong thread. 

7 hours ago, USAwx said:

If you saw this on the models would you even track it?   Blizzard of 83

It wasn’t a windy storm From what I can remember but it was a very convective storm with the most thunder and lightning I have ever experienced in a snowstorm. It beat 1/26-27 2011 easily. 
 

It still remains the only time I saw cloud the ground lightning in the snowstorm
 

 

6 minutes ago, Andrew said:

It wasn’t a windy storm From what I can remember but it was a very convective storm with the most thunder and lightning I have ever experienced in a snowstorm. It beat 1/26-27 2011 easily. 
 

It still remains the only time I saw cloud the ground lightning in the snowstorm
 

 

Sadly the data on this storm is non existent. Would love to see sounding etc

 

Want to know why so convective. Everyone talks about that who experienced it

13 minutes ago, USAwx said:

Sadly the data on this storm is non existent. Would love to see sounding etc

 

Want to know why so convective. Everyone talks about that who experienced it

That is one storm that I wish the younger members of this board were able to experience fully. Everything about it was unique given the fact the way the wall  of snow came in heavy right from the start none of this few flakes to flurries to light snow to moderate snow crap. BOOM!! It came in like a snow squall and just stayed heavy till 7 AM the next morning and just like that the snow quit. There were Lulls in the intensity And the heaviest snow did come with the thunderstorms but the snow was always heavy it was never moderate or light. 
 

I remember Elliot Abrams of AccuWeather talking about gravity waves and I believe that is what was responsible for the thunderstorms.