Speaking of Blizzards>>>

[2 Seam Fastball]

Remember the blizzard of January 1996? It was a weekend storm and I had just made it home around midnight on Saturday to find out they had forecasted a foot of snow. The next day it came and we had close to 2 feet. I almost got stuck in Atlantic City New Jersey.

[Siberian Express]

Well, speaking of Blizzard.....

23 at 6:00am, 0 now, wind NW 20 gusting to the 30's. WC's down to -40, -50 later, with the temp still plummeting and wind getting stronger.

[Brent]

Don't think I've ever seen wording like this...

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1031 AM CST TUE JAN 29 2008

...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS LIKELY DUE TO SNOW...VERY STRONG WINDS AND
SHARPLY COLDER TEMPERATURES...

.A STRONG ARCTIC FRONT IS MOVING THE REGION THIS MORNING. PERIODS
OF SNOW AND VERY STRONG NORTHWESTERLY WINDS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT
WILL CAUSE SERIOUS TRAVEL PROBLEMS. TEMPERATURES PLUNGING INTO THE
SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO EARLY THIS EVENING WILL CREATE
DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS AS THE STRONG WINDS CONTINUE. THIS
WILL CREATE A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION WHERE STRANDED PERSONS
MAY FREEZE TO DEATH WHILE VISIBILITIES REMAIN VERY POOR IN BLOWING
SNOW THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

[Siberian Express]

-15 W/C @ -41.

Old wind chill charts, around -60 or so. Still dropping and windy as hell.

[Scott Patterson]

We had a nasty blizzard yesterday. Two of my coworkers couldn't make it home since they live five miles away and couldn't make it that far. All roads out of town were closed. Now, it's snowing again, but not like yesterday. We're running out of places to put all of our snow. Next week I have to be in the coldest town (on average) in the lower 48. I hope it warms up.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

I have NEVER seen ICE here in saint petersburg, florida. No ice, no snow lol.
I've seen some frost, but even when my thermometer
has read between 32-34 (the coldest it gets here) I have
not seen any ice, and the frost once moved or touched
melts instantaneously. Many nights near the canal connected to the
bay the temperature has a hard time dropping below 60 during winter especially
these past few months. I can only recall a handfull of events
with temperatures below 50 for the low. Some days it will drop to a frigid 50 or icebox 40, and the occasional arctic 32-35 comes around every few years.

I don't even remember what a snowstorm or
snow really looks like (to feel, to smell, to experience).
It rarely drops below 32 degrees here in saint petersburg
near the waters of tampa bay, and the last time we
had a major freeze was 29 degrees in January of 2003, then
there was one time in 2001, then 1996. So every 4-5 years we
get one freeze.

But warmth is good because I'm too lazy to pack on layers
of clothes anyway.

But away from the water it gets much colder, with upper 20s in the winter
for inland locations and below freezing temperatures in interior pinellas county.
The water can sometimes keep it 10-12 degrees warmer here.
In brooksville (north of tampa and a bit inland), it may get down to 28 degrees on
one night while the official low in saint petersburg is 48 degrees.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

So speaking of blizzards, I would think I was on another planet
if I walked outside into one.

[2 Seam Fastball]

You may never seen a blizzard, and probably wont ever. But you have seen a hurricane.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

You may never seen a blizzard, and probably wont ever. But you have seen a hurricane.

that's true; wonder if a hurricane going up the atlantic coast has run into colder
air and turned into a Snowcane over the NE or Canada.

[2 Seam Fastball]

Funny you should say this. I often wondered if a hurricane would ever come up the coast and hit NYC head on. Well one almost did. There was the great hurricane of 1938. It brushed past NYC and came up over the Brooklyn/Long Island border. It was a catagorie one. then it went up into New England as it did it got stronger. Total devistation on the shores of Rhode Island.

[MiamiensisWx]

Funny you should say this. I often wondered if a hurricane would ever come up the coast and hit NYC head on. Well one almost did. There was the great hurricane of 1938. It brushed past NYC and came up over the Brooklyn/Long Island border. It was a catagorie one. then it went up into New England as it did it got stronger. Total devistation on the shores of Rhode Island.

Actually, it was a Category 5 hurricane east of the Bahamas (http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1938/index.html). It weakened to a strong Category 3 at landfall on central Long Island, NY with 105 kt (120 mph) sustained winds per reanalysis. It did not strengthen after landfall, but it transitioned to a strong extratropical low over southern Canada. Its large size produced a significant storm surge.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NWS-TPC-5.pdf

That TC remains one of the "benchmark" strikes for New England and New York.

[2 Seam Fastball]

Maybe you are right but what I heard it was a catagorie 1 by the time it got to NY. caused alot of problems in New England.

[bob rulz]

You may never seen a blizzard, and probably wont ever. But you have seen a hurricane.

that's true; wonder if a hurricane going up the atlantic coast has run into colder
air and turned into a Snowcane over the NE or Canada.

I know that a lot of hurricanes that move up the coast in October can generate snow in northern New England and Atlantic Canada. Hurricane Noel did that.

[Scott Patterson]

wonder if a hurricane going up the atlantic coast has run into colder
air and turned into a Snowcane over the NE or Canada.

Interestingly it does that a lot in Mexico. Most of the big snowstorms of the year on the highest peaks happen during Hurricanes though steady snows fall throughout the summer. July through September are the snowiest months in the high mountains there (but in October hurricanes sometimes bring snow), though in winter it can snow lower (but usually a lot less snow than in summer).