13 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Essentially winter ended after that. If we would have kept going at that pace we could have challenged or even broken 1995-96 but after that everything was suppressed and it was dry. We had some snow around midnight on April 16. There was a couple of inches in Coney Island as I was finishing up my Train trip. 

yeah there was a warmup at the end of Feb-then the models showed storms coming with the cold-then all the sudden the 12z runs one morning shifted it all south and it never came back...bone dry and cold most of March

the great snow and sleet storm with gale winds on February 13-14, 1914...Feb 13th started with a temperature of -1...Snow developed late in the day as temperatures rise to 26 by midnight...heavy am snow on the 14th changed to heavy sleet and ended after noon...1.88" of precipitation fell...9.7" was measured when the storm ended...temperatures rose to 34 before dropping back into the teens...Gale winds over 50mph accompanied the storm...the winter was a flop up until then...An even bigger storm hit March 1st...

1914 from the brooklyn eagle...

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1448.pdf

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1449.pdf

1914 from the NY Tribune...

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1914 from the NY Tribune...

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The blizzard of March 1988 was the greatest snowstorm ever in New York City it’s not even close. 
 

Temperature is dropping into the single digits, winds well over hurricane force……. I believe the winds were between 90 and 100 mph.  and the snow amounts were greatly under measured. I believe there was over 30 inches in New York City Queens and Nassau County 30 to over 40 inches. But then again who knows how much we really got. That storm was under measured everywhere. People couldn’t even get out of their homes. There were snow drifts up to the roofs of many houses. 

 

Snowdrifts 15 to 20 feet high. There is a picture of the Long Island railroad I believe it’s somewhere on the Montauk branch not far from me. It was a steam engine nearly buried in snow. I cannot even fathom that. 
 

all you have to do is look at the pictures in New York City. There have been many many big snowstorms in the city and a lot of pictures nothing even approaches what happened in that storm. Look at how high those snow drifts and snow piles were. 
 

If we had a storm of that magnitude today nobody will be able to move. No cars no trucks no trains….. nothing would be moving. 
 

 

 

March Madness or March sadness?...its now or never for this winter...1992-93 was an analog going in and the storm track has been similar at times...some years after an El nino like 1992-93 and 1959-60 had a major snowstorm/blizzard in March...even years like 1998-99 had a snowstorm in March...2016-17...1980-81 had around the same snowfall going into March...NYC had a snowstorm on the 5th...March 1984 was quite stormy...some years had nothing in March so its never a lock...Sun angle didn't bother the March 1956 storm or 1960...there is always April 1982 to bring up when the Sun angle comes up...

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

The blizzard of March 1988 was the greatest snowstorm ever in New York City it’s not even close. 
 

Temperature is dropping into the single digits, winds well over hurricane force……. I believe the winds were between 90 and 100 mph.  and the snow amounts were greatly under measured. I believe there was over 30 inches in New York City Queens and Nassau County 30 to over 40 inches. But then again who knows how much we really got. That storm was under measured everywhere. People couldn’t even get out of their homes. There were snow drifts up to the roofs of many houses. 

 

Snowdrifts 15 to 20 feet high. There is a picture of the Long Island railroad I believe it’s somewhere on the Montauk branch not far from me. It was a steam engine nearly buried in snow. I cannot even fathom that. 
 

all you have to do is look at the pictures in New York City. There have been many many big snowstorms in the city and a lot of pictures nothing even approaches what happened in that storm. Look at how high those snow drifts and snow piles were. 
 

If we had a storm of that magnitude today nobody will be able to move. No cars no trucks no trains….. nothing would be moving. 
 

 

 

ummm yea!!! There were no plows then so the snow on either side of him were actual drifts

 

5 minutes ago, Keith P.A said:

ummm yea!!! There were no plows then so the snow on either side of him were actual drifts

 

Well some of it was probably shoveled, but still...

5 hours ago, Andrew said:

The blizzard of March 1988 was the greatest snowstorm ever in New York City it’s not even close. 
 

Temperature is dropping into the single digits, winds well over hurricane force……. I believe the winds were between 90 and 100 mph.  and the snow amounts were greatly under measured. I believe there was over 30 inches in New York City Queens and Nassau County 30 to over 40 inches. But then again who knows how much we really got. That storm was under measured everywhere. People couldn’t even get out of their homes. There were snow drifts up to the roofs of many houses. 

 

Snowdrifts 15 to 20 feet high. There is a picture of the Long Island railroad I believe it’s somewhere on the Montauk branch not far from me. It was a steam engine nearly buried in snow. I cannot even fathom that. 
 

all you have to do is look at the pictures in New York City. There have been many many big snowstorms in the city and a lot of pictures nothing even approaches what happened in that storm. Look at how high those snow drifts and snow piles were. 
 

If we had a storm of that magnitude today nobody will be able to move. No cars no trucks no trains….. nothing would be moving. 
 

 

 

I'd love to see how our models would handle this storm....imagine the outputs....

3 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

I'd love to see how our models would handle this storm....imagine the outputs....

If it was a retrograde storm, which I believe it was, the GFS would outperform the Euro.

5 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

I'd love to see how our models would handle this storm....imagine the outputs....

That was the one storm where the craziest snow output from these clown maps that we see all the time would have actually busted too low. 

If we had a storm like that today, nobody and nothing would move. 
 

Who the hell is going to be able towalk in winds between 90 and 100 mph with heavy snow and temperatures in the upper single digits and lower teens. If you went out in it you would never come home. That was truly a dangerous storm. 

I was walking in winds of nearly 70 mph in the Boxing Day blizzard and that was a brutal walk I will never do something like that again. I cannot even imagine what the 1888 blizzard was like. It was a total white out where you couldn’t see anything in front of you and it was so bitterly cold that the chances of you dying were very high.

I honestly would not want to be in a storm like this. This is above and beyond what I could ever handle. 

The only storm that would equal the 1888 blizzard was the January 2005 storm in Nantucket where the winds were 100 mph temperatures were in the single digits and there was snowfall rates of 8 in./h along with coastal flooding. 

46 minutes ago, Andrew said:

If we had a storm like that today, nobody and nothing would move. 
 

Who the hell is going to be able towalk in winds between 90 and 100 mph with heavy snow and temperatures in the upper single digits and lower teens. If you went out in it you would never come home. That was truly a dangerous storm. 

I was walking in winds of nearly 70 mph in the Boxing Day blizzard and that was a brutal walk I will never do something like that again. I cannot even imagine what the 1888 blizzard was like. It was a total white out where you couldn’t see anything in front of you and it was so bitterly cold that the chances of you dying were very high.

I honestly would not want to be in a storm like this. This is above and beyond what I could ever handle. 

The good news is that most would just stay home-the days of hundreds of cars stuck on interstates are mostly over

8 hours ago, Andrew said:

The blizzard of March 1988 was the greatest snowstorm ever in New York City it’s not even close. 
 

Temperature is dropping into the single digits, winds well over hurricane force……. I believe the winds were between 90 and 100 mph.  and the snow amounts were greatly under measured. I believe there was over 30 inches in New York City Queens and Nassau County 30 to over 40 inches. But then again who knows how much we really got. That storm was under measured everywhere. People couldn’t even get out of their homes. There were snow drifts up to the roofs of many houses. 

 

Snowdrifts 15 to 20 feet high. There is a picture of the Long Island railroad I believe it’s somewhere on the Montauk branch not far from me. It was a steam engine nearly buried in snow. I cannot even fathom that. 
 

all you have to do is look at the pictures in New York City. There have been many many big snowstorms in the city and a lot of pictures nothing even approaches what happened in that storm. Look at how high those snow drifts and snow piles were. 
 

If we had a storm of that magnitude today nobody will be able to move. No cars no trucks no trains….. nothing would be moving. 
 

 

 

 

 

picture of Grand Street in w:New Britain, Connecticut, published by F. W. Allderige in 1888

 

 

Park Place in Brooklyn, March 14

This collection consists of 71 photographs taken of Hartford and its immediate surroundings both during and after the blizzard. The photographs are almost exclusively albumen prints taken by photographers E.P. Kellogg, R.C. Buell, William B. Lloyd, and William H. Lockwood

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctarchives/albums/72157629225054532/

this is the forgotten storm of March 1914...It produced almost 3" of precipitation and 15" of sleet and snow...lowest pressure ever recorded in NYC...

1914 from the NY Tribune...

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1914 storm from the NY Sun...

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1914 from the evening world...

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1914 from the brooklyn eagle...

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1989.pdf

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1990.pdf

1914...

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1914-03-03/ed-1/seq-1/

On 2/23/2025 at 6:08 PM, uncle w said:

this is the forgotten storm of March 1914...It produced almost 3" of precipitation and 15" of sleet and snow...lowest pressure ever recorded in NYC...

1914 from the NY Tribune...

http://chroniclingam...-03/ed-1/seq-1/

http://chroniclingam...-03/ed-1/seq-2/

http://chroniclingam...-03/ed-1/seq-3/

http://chroniclingam...-03/ed-1/seq-4/

1914 storm from the NY Sun...

http://chroniclingam...-02/ed-1/seq-1/

http://chroniclingam...-02/ed-1/seq-2/

1914 from the evening world...

http://chroniclingam...-02/ed-1/seq-1/

http://chroniclingam...-02/ed-1/seq-2/

http://chroniclingam...-02/ed-1/seq-3/

1914 from the brooklyn eagle...

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1989.pdf

http://fultonhistory...cale - 1990.pdf

1914...

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1914-03-03/ed-1/seq-1/

Remember March 3rd 1971?..Heavy snow warning..we were left with puddles..One of my big disappointments as a kid..looking out my 7th grade class window saying what happened????..I know Montreal got their biggest snowstorm of all time

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48 minutes ago, Keith P.A said:

Remember March 3rd 1971?..Heavy snow warning..we were left with puddles..One of my big disappointments as a kid..looking out my 7th grade class window saying what happened????..I know Montreal got their biggest snowstorm of all time

Yes I do… big disappointment… it ended as an inch or two of snow…70-71 was a nightmare for snow lovers in the city…

 

March 2nd, 1994, had 5" and 1996 4.5" on the date...2009 had 8" on the 2nd...my videos of 1994 and 1996...two of the greatest winters of my lifetime...