coastalplainsnowman

Supposed to go to the Jersey Shore this coming week. Yesterday morning, forecasts had chance of rain under 5% for early in the week. "What could mess that up, so close to next week?", thought I. Wake up this morning to see the chance of rain is now over 70% each day. Of course! There's a ^$!#@&* tropical depression that's threatening to wreck my plans. Credible! Believeable!

I read somewhere that .001% of the Earth's rise in temperature over the last 9 years is directly attributable to server electricity demands, due to the frequency of LibertyBell's posts. Half that is due solely to the giant image and poem in his footer that have been in place only the past year or so. Just kidding, I honestly enjoy the posts (the ducks I'm a little tired of tho.)

Am I forgetting major events, or have the past 18 months or so been painfully boring? No extended or way above normal heat. Ordinary winter temperatues - no cold snaps or even unusual warmth. Some snow but nothing that much. No real hurricane threats nor dramatic thunderstorms, nor hail. No icing. I'm fine with it, and I should be careful what I wish for, but it is boring.

Glad you mentioned the 108. I really thought it was 108 also, but since I couldn't find that documented anywhere, and figured I might have remembered it wrong, I went with the 106 I saw documented.

It's interesting that 2011, the year with by far the shortest time between first and last 90 degree days - 69 days - , is also the year that Newark had the 106 or maybe 108.

2010 - 2012 were some wild times around here. There was that ridiculously wet mid-March 2010 where LI lost as many trees as in a hurricane due to the ground being so saturated, then Irene, then Sandy. All interspersed with crazy snowstorms and then 100 degree heat, including I think a 106 in Newark. Oh yeah, a decent earthquake too. Am I missing anything? Fun times if you like this sort of thing, not sure if it applies to anyone here lol.

Apologies in advance if this was already mentioned (took a quick look at the last few pages and didn't see it referenced), but is this not the 2nd latest recorded snowfall, if not the latest, in the last 50 years there?

I was thinking the same, and as it turns out there were 31 states. But the 31 already included the ones where it would be toughest to have snow, like Florida. BTW, since I encountered this while looking into it, here's what the flag looked like in 1857:

My guess is because the NFL and college really are a strong draw by then. My solution is to have the first two weeks of games in the MLB season hosted almost exclusively in domed stadiums or warm weather cities, then make up for that later in the summer in the cold weather cities / undomed stadiums.

(Edit: changed from "=" to "(∴)" to make it a little more accurate)

Looking at the wunderground maps, 77 at the Jones Beach tower, 62 at the Robert Moses tower, 46 at Fire Island.

I'm not saying it's never happened, but I sure as heck have never seen south shore temps in the afternoon of a warm spring day be even 5 degrees warmer than the north shore. 30 degrees warmer seems impossible. Yet here we are.

Who trained that model, Joe Bastardi? (I know that's an easy laugh line in these parts)

Who wants to feel old? 1993 Storm of the Century was 32 years ago today. That's more than double the time that elapsed between it and the Blizzard of 78. That's 2010 in today's terms. For reference, when the 1993 storm hit, the Lindsay storm had occurred only 24 years prior. 2001 in today's terms. Put another way, as we tracked the 1993 storm, we'd only been to the moon for the first time 24 years prior as well.

On a related note, I'm determined to actually watch my iPhone or desktop clock jump from 1:59 to 3:00 tonight. I'll let you know how it goes.