2 hours ago, dbc said:

@VIRGAMANThe Ang Lee movie The Ice Storm which has an all star cast was based on a New Canaan, Connecticut ice storm that took place in 1973 but they framed it around Thanksgiving when in actuality the storm you mention here was the actual real life storm.

 

https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/1973-ice-storm-felix-50th-anniversary-ct-18554045.php

I never miss a date trust me lol

the Dec 1973 ice storm started as snow...then changed to freezing rain and sleet where I live...my girlfriend at the time lived in Howard beach and that part of Queens had more ice than my block in Brooklyn...we had more sleet just a 10 miles west of Kennedy...many deformed pine trees and bushes along the belt parkway and some trees down...The January 7-8th, 1994 ice storm was almost as bad on my block...the video speaks for itself...its been 18 years now since the 2007 sleet storms in Feb and March...There was an ice storm on January 23rd-24th, 1965...Jan 23rd was a Saturday...It was 47 degrees early in the am hours...it started raining but quickly changed to sleet and freezing rain...It was mostly sleet the rest of the day...3" of sleet accumulated...freezing rain near the end of the event...the great winter period in January 1961 started with a mostly sleet event mid month...

15 hours ago, uncle w said:

the Dec 1973 ice storm started as snow...then changed to freezing rain and sleet where I live...my girlfriend at the time lived in Howard beach and that part of Queens had more ice than my block in Brooklyn...we had more sleet just a 10 miles west of Kennedy...many deformed pine trees and bushes along the belt parkway and some trees down...The January 7-8th, 1994 ice storm was almost as bad on my block...the video speaks for itself...its been 18 years now since the 2007 sleet storms in Feb and March...There was an ice storm on January 23rd-24th, 1965...Jan 23rd was a Saturday...It was 47 degrees early in the am hours...it started raining but quickly changed to sleet and freezing rain...It was mostly sleet the rest of the day...3" of sleet accumulated...freezing rain near the end of the event...the great winter period in January 1961 started with a mostly sleet event mid month...

December 16th 1973..OJ Simpson broke James Brown rushing record at Shea Stadium. You can see the ice storm on  NFL films from that day. Starting as snow and changing to freezing rain. By Monday the next day the sidewalks in Brooklyn were ice skating rinks.I remember the trees were glistening in ice..Looked like Christmas for a few days. Unfortunately there was a warm up a few days later and the ice was gone.Turned out a mild rainy Christmas week lol sound familiar?

Today is the anniversary of the great rain storm of 2023

17 hours ago, uncle w said:

the Dec 1973 ice storm started as snow...then changed to freezing rain and sleet where I live...my girlfriend at the time lived in Howard beach and that part of Queens had more ice than my block in Brooklyn...we had more sleet just a 10 miles west of Kennedy...many deformed pine trees and bushes along the belt parkway and some trees down...The January 7-8th, 1994 ice storm was almost as bad on my block...the video speaks for itself...its been 18 years now since the 2007 sleet storms in Feb and March...There was an ice storm on January 23rd-24th, 1965...Jan 23rd was a Saturday...It was 47 degrees early in the am hours...it started raining but quickly changed to sleet and freezing rain...It was mostly sleet the rest of the day...3" of sleet accumulated...freezing rain near the end of the event...the great winter period in January 1961 started with a mostly sleet event mid month...

Yes forgot to mention I got 2 inches of snow first, jan 7 8 1994 was mainly snow up here, I wish I was around for that great 1960 61 winter but I was only a year old lol

1 hour ago, Keith P.A said:

December 16th 1973..OJ Simpson broke James Brown rushing record at Shea Stadium. You can see the ice storm on  NFL films from that day. Starting as snow and changing to freezing rain. By Monday the next day the sidewalks in Brooklyn were ice skating rinks.I remember the trees were glistening in ice..Looked like Christmas for a few days. Unfortunately there was a warm up a few days later and the ice was gone.Turned out a mild rainy Christmas week lol sound familiar?

Yea but January was great with more snow and ice events

2 hours ago, Keith P.A said:

December 16th 1973..OJ Simpson broke James Brown rushing record at Shea Stadium. You can see the ice storm on  NFL films from that day. Starting as snow and changing to freezing rain. By Monday the next day the sidewalks in Brooklyn were ice skating rinks.I remember the trees were glistening in ice..Looked like Christmas for a few days. Unfortunately there was a warm up a few days later and the ice was gone.Turned out a mild rainy Christmas week lol sound familiar?

 

1 hour ago, VIRGAMAN said:

Yea but January was great with more snow and ice events

1973-74 was the little brother to 1993-94 for ice...Feb 1974 was a good month too...March 29th had a surprise snowfall...heavy snow north of the city...

Feb 3rd weather history....

My favorite Feb 3rd was in 1961...heavy snow started around 6pm and continued until it changed to sleet around 2am Feb 4th...sleet and snow changed to all heavy snow late morning and another 10" fell that afternoon...

Feb 3rd 1970 started mild...56 degrees early in the am...By midnight it was 20degrees with snow falling on black ice...

Feb 3rd 2014 had 8" of snow one day after NYC hosted the Super bowl...

1880...snow and wind...

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1880-02-04/ed-1/seq-1/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1880-02-04/ed-1/seq-5/

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1880-02-04/ed-1/seq-1/

1883...

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1883-02-04/ed-1/seq-5/

1886 from the NY Tribune...

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1886-02-04/ed-1/seq-5/

2006 and 1983 were very warm on this date but had similar major snowstorms on the 11th-12th.
2009...
http://www.nycsubway...perl/show?96192

2014...

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?142125

1996...

 

 

7 hours ago, uncle w said:

1973-74 was the little brother to 1993-94 for ice...Feb 1974 was a good month too...March 29th had a surprise snowfall...heavy snow north of the city...

Yes!!! March 29 ,calling for some sleet and light rain, I lived in Valhalla, Westchester and they said it JP there, got 9.5 inches in 5 hours dry snow, then we had a week after of slow warming, drizzle, each day went up by 4 degrees

4 hours ago, VIRGAMAN said:

Yes!!! March 29 ,calling for some sleet and light rain, I lived in Valhalla, Westchester and they said it JP there, got 9.5 inches in 5 hours dry snow, then we had a week after of slow warming, drizzle, each day went up by 4 degrees

I was observing the storm that morning as the temperature kept dropping...I said to myself it might turn to snow...it did and we got 3-4" of wet snow in Brooklyn...I drove to the Poconos that night during the storm...they got at least 9"...the next morning there was freezing rain...April 74 had record cold and a light early morning snowfall that screwed up traffic in New Jersey...

This day in weather history 

10 minutes ago, Scott bryant said:

This day in weather history 

Doesn't look that impressive 

38 minutes ago, USAwx said:

Doesn't look that impressive 

Snow plows weren't invented then so that shut down things for days

52 minutes ago, USAwx said:

Doesn't look that impressive 

In today's standards it is

2 hours ago, Scott bryant said:

This day in weather history 

my favorite storm...

9 hours ago, Scott bryant said:

This day in weather history 

that was a great winter 60-61 snowstorm after snowstorm, I heard a MET say  being that Hurricane Donna in 1960 took a track up the coast that this could mean and cold and stormy snowy winter, he was right, forget who he was

17 hours ago, uncle w said:

I was observing the storm that morning as the temperature kept dropping...I said to myself it might turn to snow...it did and we got 3-4" of wet snow in Brooklyn...I drove to the Poconos that night during the storm...they got at least 9"...the next morning there was freezing rain...April 74 had record cold and a light early morning snowfall that screwed up traffic in New Jersey...

I think that was april 10, 1974 I got 3 inches in westchester

6 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

that was a great winter 60-61 snowstorm after snowstorm, I heard a MET say  being that Hurricane Donna in 1960 took a track up the coast that this could mean and cold and stormy snowy winter, he was right, forget who he was

Probably Joe Bastardi

3 minutes ago, chicubs said:

Probably Joe Bastardi

nah, I think it might have been Tex antoine