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I'm here! Just got home from lunch out with my wife. Temp here is 81! All eyes on the radar...

Not sure if you changed it once already, but yeah, there's some ridiculous amount of time to then change it yet again on one's own I believe. So I'm guessing that you had changed it sometime awhile back, thus got the "30,000 day" denial or something like that when you tried again more recently. I'm sure perhaps a mod would be able to go in there and change something to let you do it again.

Not sure how well this will time up, but anybody that's done, their research knows that this could have significant impact on the lightning if proton flux time's up properly. I don't understand the science enough to know the timing. But we coukd end up with an incredible lightning event tonight If things do time up properly.

YO@! @Jns2183 G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storming Observed 22 Mar 6 hours ago — G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storming was observed during the 0900-1200 UTC synoptic period on 22 Mar as what is likely high speed stream onset

I’m truly loving this weather. There’s a little breeze as well.

lol that’s awful. In other news, I like my Trek FX 2 so far, but sometimes I want a road bike that has those style of handlebars like what the Trek Domane has. Certainly could see the benefit on longer rides (though mine are more neighborhood fitness loops).

It’s a means to determine which region is experiencing the greatest anomaly It’s the average of the deviation from the norm, which is climatology There is no flaw on that premise

Western and West central Pa. At this time seems to be the area of best increasing indices and overlap.. We still have work to do here in immediate cpa There's still plenty of time and as mentioned, the enhanced parameters are advecting east. At this moment in time I would have to say that west central and western pa, seem to be the place of best interest ,but that can certainly change as the day progresses.

The current temperature of 83 at PIT is tied for second warmest March day on record, and is the earliest in the season that we’ve ever reached 83.

Great day SW of NYC-horrid here with clouds and mist 51

Thanks, Anthony. I hope they really timber! But the “timber” of the AO and NAO are still just to neutral. They were timbering to actual negatives starting around now that were shown 8 days ago per the images below vs today’s bringing them down to just neutral and not til early April: they’re verifying WAY more + than those timbering progs to negative. This they get an easy F grade:

Eyeballing a bit over 4” now

You will have plenty of warm days ahead. Its not the end of the world

Cloudy, windy and cool along Barnegat Bay, NJ this morning...

Love is in the air.

That is correct. I never it is wasn't a record breaking air mass. Local contamination from infrastructure is common even in sparely populated areas. Parking lots, vehicle traffic, solar panel arrays, AC units, etc. all contribute. And the digital thermometers have a warm bias compared to glass thermometers b/c they record instantaneous temp and react quickly to any changes in the air. ASOS use 5-min avg temp to mitigate this, but sensors and equipment out there are far from standardized, never mind not all ideally located (look the areal view of the official temp sensor in Death Valley, parking lots and solar arrays all around). So it's not just UHI that skew temp records. It's all too easy to get caught up in it all when big wx events occur. I get that. It is our passion for wx that drives it. However, we should not let that cloud our judgement when talking about caveats and shortcomings that just happen to "deflate" that excitement or how impressive it is. Taking everything as face value and acting there is nothing to question or analyze is not a good scientific position.

67 and sunny

Horrific day. 49 and socked in here. Upper 60s in NJ. Kill me

They’re shattering records in areas of sparse population. It’s simply a record breaking airmass.

UHI does impact daytime highs (Baltimore/Inner Harbor is perhaps the most egregious example). Also, local airport infrastructure and sensor placement impact highs, regardless of UHI.

4” Glen NH

84.6° feels legitimately summerlike in the sun

Train gets back to Harrisburg at 8:45 or so. Should be just in time for some good lighting and wind.

I never said the primary urban heat island effect was not at night. 1-2 F per day biased warmed max is huge for long-term climate records. esp. when you consider we think we can get avg regional or global temps correct/accurate down the the 100th of degree, and we obsess when we "beat" a record by a fraction of degree, not mentioning the uncertainty at all. Using precision to give an illusion of accuracy. Bad science. And some sites have a huge warm bias during the day. Look at Baltimore/Inner Harbor (KDMH). You often see it 7 F warmer for maxes than BWI, and this is an official climate location and gets reported as fact.