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Aim higher. We are past that and onto drying out entire springs!

basically this entire interaction

No man... You're wrong on this guy. He's not another Mark more garbage.

Yea, aside from a wife, 4 kids, a solid career, side-hustle, thriving business abroad and a fulfilling hobby....

I'm assuming it would probably be down in OUN?

Depressing to see most, if not all, of the NWS hourly surface data maps are no longer plotting Canadian data sites... I frequently use the GIS site and it is no longer showing any real time Canadian metar data.

Don't be so sure of that. The winter of 1965-66 being a case in point. I'm excited about how hot I know next summer will be though. A mix of 1966 and 1983 is on the way. It's great to see sunny shades of October 2024. Yes this is usually the time of year when we have our best weather. This is the best weather of the entire year. Great timing with the fall foliage at peak too. Yes I wouldn't mind 4 weeks of this. Yuck another hard freeze. My October electric bill is projected to be over 600. Dont ask, the cost of heating a large house combined with inflated energy costs. I have 17 heating zones here and when I had the heat set to 65 it was too cold. 70 was okay for awhile but when we had those 2 nights in a row below freezing even 70 wasn't enough. Now I have a large portion of the house at 73 with a few minor exceptions: 5 thermostats set at 50. 4 bathrooms plus the kitchen. These are the rooms that require the least heat. 3 thermostats set at 68. These are a few of the rooms downstairs. 2 thermostats set at 70. These are two of the bedrooms upstairs. 7 thermostats set at 73. My bedroom upstairs, the hallway and some of the rooms downstairs that have very tall ceilings. I previously had those downstairs rooms set at 70 but it wasn't warm enough when we went below freezing. I have 4 propane fireplaces so I might revisit these settings if I turn them on The 17 thermostats average out to exactly 65 but that obviously doesn't account for room size.

COC!

I don’t think you have a sense of how deep the frost line is here. Sure, a few inches on the top layer melt in a rainstorm, but dig a couple of inches and it will be rock solid,even in the warmest winter

I understand their obsession with snow as a kid I always looked forward to snow. Now I have a been there, done that attitude and don't care so much. What puzzles me now is these people who want to wear hoodies in the summer and cheer on boring overcast rainy summer days. What kind of antisocial and/or out of shape/overweight does a person need to be not to enjoy a nice sunny hot summer day? Granted I dislike humid weather too but I love the heat it's rejuvenating. Plus a hot and dry summer has way less mosquitoes. 2010 is my gold standard for summers. Well it's usually because colder air is drier too. To get snow around here you usually need a happy medium between cold air and moisture. The moist air being warmer. Outside of 1993-94 which was historically cold the coldest winters I remember were in the 1980s. I was too young to remember 1976-77 but some of those 80s winters were almost as cold. 1981-82 and 1983-84 being two extremely cold winters. That April 1982 Blizzard might be the most anomalous weather event of my entire life.

Awesome! Love the branding, lol

Have wanted to several times

Welcome to modern meteorology Wiz.

That Whole SAI thing has been around a while now. Probably more voo doo than reality in the end.

Just looked at the local records… MVL ASOS was put in place in 1986, short period of record, but like half of the October record mins happened in the first three years of the station (1980s). Then just get fewer with every decade since.

10/21: Records: Highs: EWR: 84 (1947) NYC: 84 (1920) LGA: 82 (1947) JFK: 81 (1963) Lows: EWR: 31 (1974) NYC: 31 (1871) LGA: 33 (1974) JFK: 31 (1973) Historical: 1743: On the evening of the 21st Ben Franklin had hoped to observe a lunar eclipse in Philadelphia but cloudy skies from a VA coastal storm hide the moon. Franklin later learned from sources in Boston that the same eclipse seen in clear skies in the NE but a violent storm hit them the next day. Franklin reasoned that it was the same storm and that weather moves. (Washington Weather Book 2002 by Ambrose, Henry, Weiss) It puzzled Franklin that the system seemed to move from southwest to northeast even though winds at his location were from the northeast. He theorized the winds in the storm system must have been rotating around a center. A brilliant deduction considering he had no satellite to show the big picture. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1780: Spanish Admiral Solano was enroute from Havana to Pensacola in October 1780 to capture the important port city. The third major hurricane of the month swept north through the Gulf of Mexico catching and scattering the fleet of 64 warships. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1804: First snow of the season seen by the Lewis and Clark Expedition near Bismark, North Dakota. The snow fell to a depth of one-half inch. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1934 - A severe windstorm lashed the northern Pacific coast. In Washington State, the storm claimed the lives of 22 persons, and caused 1.7 million dollars damage, mostly to timber. Winds, gusting to 87 mph at North Head WA, produced waves twenty feet high. (David Ludlum) 1952: Earliest first frost in Washington DC. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1957 - The second in a series of unusual October storms hit southern California causing widespread thunderstorms. Santa Maria was drenched with 1.13 inches of rain in two hours. Hail drifted to 18 inches in East Los Angeles. Waterspouts were sighted off Point Mugu and Oceanside. (20th-21st) (The Weather Channel) 1975: Carlton Fisk made history on this day because of a walk-off home run in the 1975 World Series, after rain had postponed it for three days. 1987 - Cold arctic air continued to invade the central U.S. Eleven record lows were reported in the Great Plains Region, including lows of 12 degrees at Valentine NE, and 9 degrees at Aberdeen SD. Temperatures warmed rapidly during the day in the Southern and Central Plains Region. Goodland KS warmed from a morning low of 24 degrees to an afternoon high of 75 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Joan, the last hurricane of the season, neared the coast of Nicaragua packing 125 mph winds. Joan claimed more than 200 lives as she moved over Central America, and total damage approached 1.5 billion dollars. Crossing more than 40 degrees of longitude, Hurricane Joan never strayed even one degree from the 12 degree north parallel. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Unseasonably cold weather continued to grip the south central and southeastern U.S. Twenty cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Calico AR with a reading of 26 degrees, and Daytona Beach FL with a low of 41 degrees. Squalls in the Great Lakes Region finally came to an end, but not before leaving Marquette MI buried under 12.7 inches of snow, a record 24 hour total for October. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1996: A state of emergency was declared in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine after a powerful coastal storm dumped over a foot of rain causing massive flooding. Portland, ME recorded 7.92 inches of rainfall in 24 hours to set their rainfall record.(Ref. AccWeather Weather History) Boston, Massachusetts on the 20th and 21st had the greatest 24 hour precipitation of 6.66 inches for the month of October. (Ref. NOAA Boston Weather Events) 1998: A tropical depression formed in the southwest Caribbean Sea, about 360 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica. This disturbance would intensify over the next few days to become Hurricane Mitch, a monster storm that would eventually become the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, behind "The Great Hurricane" of 1780 in the Caribbean. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/22 Records: Highs: EWR: 86 (1979) NYC: 88 (1979) LGA: 83 (1979) JFK: 77 (1984) Lows: EWR: 30 (1940) NYC: 30 (1940) LGA: 33 (1940) JFK: 37 (2003) Historical: 1884: A drought which began in August, extended through September and continued until the last week October brought hardship to Northern, Central, and Eastern Alabama. The 22nd was the first day of general showers, and gentle rains fell from the 26th to the 29th. 1965 - The temperature soared to 104 degrees at San Diego, CA. Southern California was in the midst of a late October heat wave that year. Los Angeles had ten consecutive days with afternoon highs reaching 100 degrees. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1969: The earliest and heaviest snow since October 1926 occurred in parts of northern New England. 12 inches fell at Rochester, NY, and in some mountain areas, more than a foot fell. There was limited skiing on some Vermont slopes on the 23rd. It set the October 24-hour record at Burlington, VT, with 5.1 inches, and the early season record at Portland, ME, with 3.6 inches. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1985 - A guest on the top floor of a hotel in Seattle, WA, was seriously injured while talking on the phone when lightning struck. Several persons are killed each year when the electrical charge from a lightning bolt travels via telephone wiring. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Yakutat, AK, surpassed their previous all-time yearly precipitation total of 190 inches. Monthly records were set in June with 17 inches, in September with 70 inches, and in October with more than 40 inches. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) Twenty-two cities in the eastern U.S., most of them in the southeast states, reported record low temperatures for the date. Morning lows of 30 degrees at Athens GA, 28 degrees at Birmingham AL, and 23 degrees at Pinson AL, were the coldest of record for so early in the season. (The National Weather Summary) Showers produced heavy rain in southern California, with amounts ranging up to five inches at Blue Jay. Flash flooding resulted in two deaths, ten injuries, and more than a million dollars damage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - A "nor'easter" swept across the coast of New England. Winds gusted to 75 mph, and large waves and high tides caused extensive shoreline flooding. A heavy wet snow blanketed much of eastern New York State, with a foot of snow reported in Lewis County. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - A storm system moving out of the Gulf of Alaska brought rain to the Northern and Central Pacific Coast Region, with snow in some of the mountains of Oregon, and wind gusts to 60 mph along the Oregon coast. Six cities in Florida reported record low temp-eratures for the date, including Tallahassee with a reading of 34 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1996: Flooding from a major weekend storm continued to close schools and businesses in New England. Five people were killed during the storm, which dumped up to 19.19 inches of rain at Camp Ellis, ME to set the state's all time rainfall record. 140,000 people in Portland, ME were without water due to a water-main break. The town of Exeter, NH was also without water as the state experienced its worst flooding event since 1987. In New Jersey, the flooding was reported to be the worst since Tropical Storm Doria in 1971. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) Wichita Kansas picked up 0.2 inch of snow for its earliest measurable snowfall on record. Snow also fell in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. As much as 8 inches fell at Boise City, Oklahoma, with 15 inches at the Cloudcroft Ski resort in the mountains of northern New Mexico. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1997: Game 4 of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and the Florida Marlins was the coldest game in World Series history. The official game-time temperature was 38 degrees at Jacobs Field in Cleveland. Wind chills as low as 18 degrees was reported during the game. 1998: Tropical Depression Thirteen formed on October 22 over the southwestern the Caribbean Sea. By the 24th, this tropical depression became Hurricane Mitch. This hurricane would rapidly intensify over the next two days, reaching Category 5 strength on the 26th. Hurricane Mitch would end up being the second deadliest hurricane in the history of the Atlantic Ocean. 2005: Hurricane Wilma, with sustained winds near 130 mph crossed the Yucatan Peninsula near Playa del Carmen. The hurricane caused severe damage to the homes of nearly 700,000 people, leaving 300,000 homeless and at least 7 dead. Some remote locations across the Yucatan reported over 60 inches of rain. (Ref. Wilson Weather History) 2006: A “sleeper” wave hit CA’s Freshwater Lagoon Beach (near Orick). A 4-yr-old girl was swept to sea, as was a woman who tried to save her; both drowned. Several times a year “rogue” waves unexpectedly sweep people from beaches as they break on C/N CA beaches. (Ref. Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA) 2007: A tropical air mass along the Atlantic Seaboard pushes the afternoon high temperatures 10 to 25 Fahrenheit degrees above the long-term average highs for the third week of October. Daily record high temperatures are tied or exceeded with 80°F readings at Montpelier, Vermont, and Millinocket, Maine. (Ref. WxDoctor)

Allot of that will move back towards the coast once the flow backs around to the south/south east. Water was pretty chilly today. .

Exactly what we are supposed to have…seasonal. Why, What should we be having in later October?

Today's Highs New Brnswck: 71 PHL: 70 EWR: 69 TEB: 69 TTN: 69 BLM: 68 ACY: 68 LGA: 68 NYC: 67 JFK: 67 ISP: 66

Folks is cocked in here

These are absolutely, positively related, and over the next couple of weeks, I'll be alienating myself from my family to explain in the most vivd detail imaginable why, and how.