Friday, July 3, 2015
It is interesting to note that late in the evening of Tuesday June 23rd 2015 in Oyster Bay there was extreme weather. Hail, some of it golf ball-sized, was recorded in Glen Cove, and Cove Neck through to East Northport. The sky turned that Greenish-yellow color that is said to be a harbinger of tornadoes, but at the last relented to a multi-hued sunset reflected off high clouds as the front petered out. It was said that had the front not suddenly dissipated, conditions might have been significantly worse in Oyster Bay and on Centre Island. In fact, a microburst did pull down trees and put some residents of Cove Neck out of power for up to eight hours, and others in Oyster Bay Cove for nearly two days.
And none of this showed up significantly on radar other than as small localized blips.
I think that former Centre Island Mayor Mooney, who was also a WWII fighter pilot and who had, to put it gently, no fear of stirring up a storm in Village politics, would have enjoyed the coincidence of this tempest on his passing.
