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This is AFTER yesterday’s nor’easter. Didn’t even make a dent in the long term drought. The staggering dryness since late July continues. Soil moisture is just as abysmal. So much for BAMWX’s hype back in September that the MJO was going to initiate some crazy wet pattern in the east in October along with possible landfalling tropical systems…..

High school is one thing, elementary is another. While I agree with you, the helicopter parent culture we currently live in will lead to massive freakouts and calls for us to revert back to the old system...just watch. That's what happened last time we tried it.

Yea, had some brief sun earlier, but it’s been cloudy ever since. Maybe we can reel in some clearing before sunset.

Just looked into that more for the first time, and man, what a beast. The wind gusts were legit. I miss the days of the big dogs.

Our morning buses are routinely running in the dark in the morning. The high school bus picks up at the end of my street at 6:18AM, well before sunrise currently. Hasn't harmed anyone.

Just using your logic here... Those more northern latitudes also have a sunset before 4:20PM, hell in some parts the sun never comes up for weeks at a time and people don't die...

March 6-8 2013. 2' in that here. It was from about ORH to Kev on east.

Didn’t impact me but the one big fire hose I remember was like a week after the Great Blizzard of 2013. I think @ORH_wxman and points east got smoked.

Definitely. We are a nation of wusses. Especially the last 25 yrs

Those aren't NOAA's adjustments. Looks like the difference between your results and NOAA's. The table below, which you are ignoring, shows that NOAA agrees very well with the raw data when station moves are excluded. So they are your adjustments not NOAA's. Adjustments are needed in Chester County because of all the station moves and other station changes. Every time we've looked at a station move, NOAA has been spot on in adjusting the station data. You haven't identified a single station adjustment that isn't warranted.

Children in Europe have been going to school in the dark for centuries, I guess they're just tougher than us?

Heavy drizzle and light rain still coming down. Probably getting close to 5” at this point. The persistence of these bands right along the shore has been just remarkable. As others have already noted, we’d probably be swimming in piles of powder if this were a mid winter event. Def one to remember for many!

Damn, you just brought me back. I was 15 and my mom has always liked looking at the houses on Dune Rd and we drove out there a few days after that storm and we actually got turned around by the authorities because it was impassable.

All models showing something in the Caribbean next week.

Who cares. The Sun already rises at 8AM at all locations on the western end of time zones. And the majority of Europe has a sunrise time much later than we do due to their higher latitude. Nobody dies there. You know what is terrible? The Sun going down at 4:20PM

True, I do expect a lot of inland primaries....I could see a slighly below average season, but shouldn't be an abomination at my locale....I don't think.

2-3 days of east winds piled the water into the western sound. I think the storm stalled near ACY for awhile

Major, moderate, and minor all describe specific benchmarks for coastal flooding. Minor and moderate coastal flooding events usually result in only street flooding and beach erosion. This event was at the moderate benchmark for coastal flooding at places like Sandy Hook and Freeport. The water level reached near the 8 ft moderate level at Sandy Hook. Low end major coastal flooding by a few inches usually means that the water can come up into peoples yards or lawns but not into the first floor of their house in the lowest lying coastal zones. This was the case along the GSB with this event. Once major coastal flooding gets around .75 to 1.5 feet above the major threshold, then flooding can come into the first floors of houses. This is what occurred with the 1992 Nor’easter and Hurricane Irene. Sandy was around 4.5” higher than December 1992 and Irene leading to the historic flooding in places which haven’t flooded in modern times. It was 5.7” above the major coastal flooding threshold at Sandy Hook reaching the 14.4” level. Sandy Hook has the most extensive list of coastal flooding records in area https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/middle.pdf

I wouldn't know anything about Accuweather bias, nor their forecast philosophies ... but a pathway to a low snow turn out whilst normal temp for our region could be related to an anomalously warm mid level plague - which in fact, we don't exactly live and breath in an Earth era that's short of reasons to see something like that occurring. just sayn I'm not forecasting that but Devil's advocate.

Looks like self destructive sunshine today.

I don't expect to be strong until towards the new year..."bottoming out" is one thing...

The winds from December 92: 58 at central park 77 at LGA 86 at Montauk 90 in wildwood NJ about sandy levels…

That I believe is the storm that busted up dune road in west Hampton and created a new inlet. I think there were 15 foot waves in the sound. Wild

Who else had wind? Finally getting good gusts with this new station. I do think my old one was too low with wind speed.

IMO this poll is meaningless without a timeframe. Are we talking 2-4 over the course of 30 years? 300 years? 3,000 years? 30,000 years? It matters because the impacts for each would be vastly different, including the level of danger. When it comes to climate change I like to use the analogy of an airplane's altitude. What matters isn't so much how *far* the airplane changes altitude - but how *fast* it changes altitude. Dropping 1,000 ft in two minutes generally isn't a problem. Dropping 1,000 ft in two seconds is generally a big problem. Same thing for nominal altitude. Being at 0 ft Above Ground Level (AGL) is not a problem if that's where you were a few minutes ago, but it's a big problem if you were at 1,000ft AGL a couple seconds ago. Thus why the whole "the earth has been at temperature X before" is a foolish and meaningless position w/regards to CC. The poll is also meaningless without supplying additional conditions. Is this all-else-being-equal? Presumably so, but it would be nice to state as such.