Found some old maps of these two storms on my PC and can't for the life of me remember how I got them. The Lindsay is very detailed with the whole week of weather maps leading up to it. I'm sure Storm would enjoy looking at it vs the past weeks storm and see the parralels. It shows the primary in nearly the identical spot as this weeks storm and then the 992MB strengthening bomb off the Delmarva. The storm got a lot stronger, 972MB if I remember right as it got near Nantucket and produced 50-60mph winds in NYC. The Lindays storm was 10-20 degrees warmer than this past week's storm with temps dropping from the low 30's to the mid 20's but the 850MB Low with that storm was swallowed by the monster secondary so there were neve precip issues. 2' of snow instead of 3-5" of sleet was the result. I haven't been able to upload the images of boths storms though so I'll e-mail them to Geek and see if he can put them up.

In the link attached are some great snowstorm hits of the past. The Lindsay storm is about midway down and the Daily News headline shown is the paper I have saved and can't find. Though the storm says 2' of wet snow it was really about 1' wet and 1' dry as the second half of the storm fell with temps in the mid-upper 20's and dropping. Also the forecast for the storm was not light snow to light rain it was light snow to heavy windswept rain.


http://davep1nj.tripod.com/davesweathersitedeluxe/id3.html

http://wintercenter.homestead.com/photo1969.html

BTW - look at some of the 1888 pics in NYC. The fact that 21" of snow is all that was reported is an absolute joke. This is at least a 30-40" storm in NYC. Remember it was 60 degrees for many days just before the 1888 storm so there was no ground snow before that storm.


http://www.stamfordhistory.org/ph_0301.htm

ice heres another pic.  I doubt 20 inches of snow would do this to a train

[img width=580 height=450]http://i16.tinypic.com/2dkmq6p.jpg[/img]

These Blizzard of 1888 totals in NJ seem to add credibility to the CPK 21". 

Drifting was tremendous.

Source: The New Jersey Weather Book - Ludlum, Rutgers University Press, 1983

frpm stories I have read, they say nj had totals upto 40 inches.  Didnt say were in NJ but 40 inches was mentioned

Ice and RG,
Great pics...

rg - I believe that CT and RI had huge totals from '88. If the source I show is correct, NJ totals were 20-25".

I've read reports of 30-40" all the way out to Harrisburg and 50" in Albany. Baltimore also was destroyed in 1888. In fact the whole corridor from DC to NY in the pre I95 days reported many many cities and towns shut down for days. IMO 1888 was 3' plus for NYC from all the pix I've seen.

Great find Ice. Loved the maps you emailed me.

AWESOME THREAD!!!!!!!!!! THANKS ICE!!!!!!!!!!!