This site is an attempt at recording the Winter 2000-01 on Long Island. The forecast for the Winter 2000-01 was one of normal temperatures and precipitation, which after the last 3 mild winters, would seem cold and snowy. Let's see how it turned out.

Everyone wants a White Christmas. To see if Long Island got one, go to

White Christmas ?

Temperatures were below normal for December. Great South Bay started to freeze.

December 26th Ice is starting to form

Another shot of cold air moved in midweek.

December 28th Cold temps, school closed, & ice equals this.

Starting December 22rd, some of the computer models were predicting a major snowstorm for Long Island in about a week.
To see what happen, just go to

Snowstorm ?

A fast moving Clipper dropped another inch of snow on Friday evening, January 5th.

Monday afternoon, Jan 8th, light rain that changed to some light snow in the evening for a 1/2". The next morning there was some more light snow for another 1/2".

Another weekend winterstorm on

January 21st

A pre-dawn dusting of snow on 1/27

January 31st - Temperature gets to 51 degrees . First time that it breaks 50 since December 17th.

February 5th

Messy Monday

February 10th

A Windy Day

A dusting of snow from 10 AM to Midnight on 2/12, which quickly melted the next morning

February 22nd

More Snow

March 2nd

A Sneaky One

On March 2nd, there was talk of maybe a Blizzard on March 5th

The Blizzard That Wasn't

Technically, Winter was over, but March 21st & 22nd looked like an old fashion

Nor'easter

One last punch from Old Man Winter

Last Snow

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