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[Hurricaneff]

19 years ago today my favorite storm of alltime, the 1992 nor'easter. The strongest winds I have ever wittnessed!!! the worse coastal flooding I have seen.

[DBZ80]

I witnessed waves over 20 feet high on that Friday by Ocean Parkway where they washed over the eastbound lanes,and I drove in a blizzard in SE NY along Rte 17 from Monticello to Ramapo on the NYS Thruway later on the Saturday early evening.Incredible storm,one that most likely will never be equaled in my lifetime.

[bm55]

DBZ80, on Dec 11 2011, 02:57 PM, said:

I witnessed waves over 20 feet high on that Friday by Ocean Parkway where they washed over the eastbound lanes,and I drove in a blizzard in SE NY along Rte 17 from Monticello to Ramapo on the NYS Thruway later on the Saturday early evening.Incredible storm,one that most likely will never be equaled in my lifetime.

Quite a snowstorm that Saturday, bands of precip rotating from the Atlantic and remaining nearly stationary over the Hudson Valley, 14" of snow that day. The day before, Thurs nite into Fri morning, had 8" of snow. During the day on Friday, had mix of rain and snow with heavy bursts of wet snow, until it changed to all snow early Saturday morning.

[DBZ80]

bm55, on Dec 11 2011, 09:58 PM, said:

Quite a snowstorm that Saturday, bands of precip rotating from the Atlantic and remaining nearly stationary over the Hudson Valley, 14" of snow that day. The day before, Thurs nite into Fri morning, had 8" of snow. During the day on Friday, had mix of rain and snow with heavy bursts of wet snow, until it changed to all snow early Saturday morning.

What made it more dramatic was the fact that I had not seen snowfall rates like that since the FEB 1983 blizzard and had not driven in snowfall like that either.That was the most intense DEC snowfall I had ever seen prior to last years Boxing Day Blizzard.

[Virgaman]

bm55, on Dec 11 2011, 08:58 PM, said:

Quite a snowstorm that Saturday, bands of precip rotating from the Atlantic and remaining nearly stationary over the Hudson Valley, 14" of snow that day. The day before, Thurs nite into Fri morning, had 8" of snow. During the day on Friday, had mix of rain and snow with heavy bursts of wet snow, until it changed to all snow early Saturday morning.

I lived in Putnam county during that time and what you described is exactily what happened, however, if you were in dutchess county it was pure heavy rain on that friday. It was the same situation as the Feb 25-26 storm of 2010, where warmer air fed in northwest creating areas north to get more rain while areas south got heavy snow and rain, until saturday when everyone got heavy snow.

Incidentally, my brother in law in the catskills recorded 38 inches on friday!!! and 8 inches on saturday as the storm was pulling away. i remember it stalled for a time down in north carolina and retrograded somewhat.

[icehater]

Virgaman, on Dec 12 2011, 03:40 PM, said:

I lived in Putnam county during that time and what you described is exactily what happened, however, if you were in dutchess county it was pure heavy rain on that friday. It was the same situation as the Feb 25-26 storm of 2010, where warmer air fed in northwest creating areas north to get more rain while areas south got heavy snow and rain, until saturday when everyone got heavy snow.

Incidentally, my brother in law in the catskills recorded 38 inches on friday!!! and 8 inches on saturday as the storm was pulling away. i remember it stalled for a time down in north carolina and retrograded somewhat.

Very different circumstance than Feb 2010 in the set-up IMO. December 92 was a large powerful ocean storm that effected the whole coast and there was very little cold air around. In fact the whole coast was inundated with maritime air from the Carolina's up thru Maine. Thus the snow was really an elavation issue, and even there it was a borderline 32-33 degree snow, and most places got rain. Feb 2010 was a crawling storm which as a result thru warm maritine air well north of center while draining a large source of cold air south of center. This was actually a storm much closer to the blizzard of 1888 than it was to December 1992. Had the December 92 storm occurred with arctic air around there'd have been a lot of 30"+ snow totals near the coast. That winter had two of the greatest storms ever as bookends with the December 92 noreaster on the front end and the superstorm in March 93 as the backend. The Dec 1992 storm was also mainly a Friday and friday night event. The Saturday follow-up was the ULL coming thru and it gave Monmouth county 3- 6" of snow but you had to be under that ULL to get enough cold to support snow. North of it NYC had rain.

[Mike_The_Golfer]

Probably the storm most responsible for turning me into a "weather weenie". We had coastal flooding in areas that never flooded before that storm and haven't since (although Irene came close).

[NittanyLion]

icehater, on Dec 12 2011, 03:57 PM, said:

Very different circumstance than Feb 2010 in the set-up IMO. December 92 was a large powerful ocean storm that effected the whole coast and there was very little cold air around. In fact the whole coast was inundated with maritime air from the Carolina's up thru Maine. Thus the snow was really an elavation issue, and even there it was a borderline 32-33 degree snow, and most places got rain. Feb 2010 was a crawling storm which as a result thru warm maritine air well north of center while draining a large source of cold air south of center. This was actually a storm much closer to the blizzard of 1888 than it was to December 1992. Had the December 92 storm occurred with arctic air around there'd have been a lot of 30"+ snow totals near the coast. That winter had two of the greatest storms ever as bookends with the December 92 noreaster on the front end and the superstorm in March 93 as the backend. The Dec 1992 storm was also mainly a Friday and friday night event. The Saturday follow-up was the ULL coming thru and it gave Monmouth county 3- 6" of snow but you had to be under that ULL to get enough cold to support snow. North of it NYC had rain.

And Feb 2010 did a loop and actually made "landfall" over Southern New England before moving back SW into a position near NYC and then finally lifting Northeastward.