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but the wind has mainly been offshore this spring, no? why are the temps capped in the low 80s? Central Park hasn't hit 100 in a long time too-- I think the last time was 2013 or was it 2012?

The climate has never been "stable" here and many other places. Stable is a place like San Diego or Barrow. As a matter of fact, Ive yet to see a more erratic grouping of winters than we had from 1875-1882 (see bottom). Just because the globe is warmer than it was, the actual climate was anything but stable from 1880 to 1870 here. The year-to-year and decade-to-decade variability always has and always will exist. If there is to be any longterm significant change in snowfall in the Great Lakes region, we will need a lot more years of data to come. Winter avg temp at Detroit (current avg is 28.4F for reference): 1874-75: 19.1F 1875-76: 31.0F 1876-77: 23.5F 1877-78: 31.5F 1878-79: 21.8F 1879-80: 32.5F 1880-81: 21.8F 1881-82: 37.0F (warmest on record to this day)

We are flipping over to snow flakes at 3,000ft on the snow cam. 39F in the base area with rain.

September is basically an extension of summer now.

and last night and today are extremely windy, something no one predicted!

For reference, CPC's May 15th outlook is still favoring a warmer summer.

a lot of people go to the beach just to sit in the sand.

Maybe the extremely cold and stormy 1993-94 winter was a holdover from Pinatubo?

There is a lot more variance in relation to the impact of volcanic eriptions that folks realize.....depends where they are and how strong. The very strong PV of the early 90s was likely a byproduct of Pinatubo.

I agree with this.

1976-77 was dry, but one that turned very warm during the spring. 1978-79 was a very wet winter, but that followed a very dry fall. 1979-80 and 1980-81 were very dry winters. 79-80, I think, is the least snowy winter in Boston.

Eh....from your area to NNE, yes....I hope to break even...def. bad for those south of me.

NAM selling a good soak for the whole metro, would be good timing

Clearly I understand that...I wasn't implying anything about snowfall. I simply questioned the idea that a warmer climate wouldn't lead to an increase in mositure.

So even other legendary cold months like January 2004 and January 1994 don't compare to what we had in February 1979?

This cooldown is bullshit.

Besides 1977-78 weren't those other winters very dry?

Got an outside chance at that 54F for Thursday.

WW2 was legendary for its brutal winters (similar to WW1 in that respect). The 1940s were the last time NYC reached a temperature lower than -2 (it was -6 in February 1943).

Pretty much a lock. At minimum Marchand just needs to play in 2 games against the Canes.

I was wondering why Pinatubo didn't give us the crazy cold that was predicted. Maybe volcanoes influence summer weather more than winter winter? 1992 did have a very cool summer.

Perhaps for the eastern United States, but certainly not globally.

He's not a bad guy but his opinion that we would be better off without air conditioning because we would then take climate change more seriously is a dubious one at best.

This is a nasty -NAO mass loading day out there... If one is a warm enthusiast, you're specifically targeted indignity. The index is only modestly negative at this time, but it's still descending. Having that 'almost' stalled piece of shit 998 mb low over the outer GOM, and a veritable Montreal Express conveyor gusting to 33 mph under cold air strata intervals is spot on. And it is one helluva way to run a late spring in a global warming holocaust, I'll tell ya -

Oh good! Now I can stop refreshing the browser.