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I have had a heat pump water heater since 2012 and love it. They are just insanely efficient and inexpensive to run. They use a 350 watt compressor to heat the water and they dehumidify your basement as well. From an energy cost perspective mine averages around 1-2 kwh in electricity consumption a day and around 600 kwh a year. Even with New Englands expensive electricity around .30 or more its still absolutely blows away oil/gas in operating cost. I have solar but if I had to pay for all the electricity it would have cost me like $180 in electricity for hot water for the year. Thats $15 a month for hot water. Yesterday my tank used 45 cents in electricity for hot water. People using the now nearly $5 heating oil will burn that equivalent money in seconds. As far as cost goes almost every New England state has like a $700+ state rebate on them and there was a federal rebate up to recently. They are like $1200 and the rebates makes them like $300 the same cost of a regular electric one. In CT right now the rebate is $900 here at https://www.energizect.com/explore-solutions/water-heaters/heat-pump-water-heaters-details I dont think many people realize oil burners run at close to 1 gallon per hour consumption when its running. With $5 heating oil and your most likely burning a gallon a day minimum for hot water . With current prices thats $150 a month right now. That practically my entire yearly cost for my hot water for 1 month. Here is my last years usage and weekly usage from my Rheem 50 Gallon heat pump water heater.

NOUS41 KOKX 062000 PNSOKX CTZ005>012-NJZ002-004-006-103>108-NYZ067>075-078>081-176>179- 080800- Public Information Statement National Weather Service New York NY 300 PM EST Fri Mar 6 2026 ...BLIZZARD CONFIRMED FOR NEW YORK CITY, LONG ISLAND, COASTAL WESTCHESTER, COASTAL CONNECTICUT, AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW JERSEY... The National Weather Service in New York, NY can preliminarily confirm that blizzard criteria was met on February 23rd across the following counties... Manhattan, NY Queens, NY Kings, NY Richmond, NY Bronx, NY Nassau, NY Suffolk, NY Southern Westchester, NY Southern Fairfield, CT Southern New Haven, CT Southern Middlesex, CT Southern New London, CT Eastern Bergen, NJ Eastern Essex, NJ Eastern Union, NJ Hudson, NJ Blizzard criteria are met when sustained winds or frequent gusts of at least 35 mph accompanied by falling and/or blowing snow frequently reduce visibility to less than 1/4 mile for 3 or more hours during an event. The exact start and end times of blizzard conditions in these areas will be documented in NWS StormData. Further analysis will also be conducted to determine if any additional zones reached blizzard criteria with this event. All verification data are considered preliminary until certified in NWS StormData. Please see the following preliminary storm event webpage for more details on this event: https://www.weather.gov/okx/20260222_23 $$

35° Can’t mix out.

Can’t recall multiple days like this with the persistent fog.

I wish they'd waited a month. I was getting used to waking up in the light.

43/42 . Damage.

Ahhh, later sunsets are back. The best time of year.

Alright, so when the hell do we see the warmth on this side of the state? Forecast yesterday evening said temps rising into the 50's overnight. Still sitting at 43.

Can someone please post the Ecmwf FRAM forecast through Friday for Michigan? Looking like a possible bad freezing rain event here.

I feel like you have been tracking a warm-up your entire life

Here's a blog article on the "acceleration" paper that you linked above by a climate scientist who wasn't involved. Good discussion of what is known and not known about recent global temperature trends. Bottom line, we already knew that warming was accelerating; but, we don't know why with any precision which makes it difficult to extrapolate forward. Not a good position to be in as we are leaving our past climate. https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/for-a-rainy-day/

Worst part of this for me was the forecast from last weekend had the warm-up starting on Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday being in the mid 50 to mid 60's. and Saturday solidly in the 60's. That didn't happen as we rotted (up here anyway) in the low 40's with a foggy drizzle all three days. So the warmth was delayed considerably. If only the cold push would be subsequently delayed. I feel cheated otherwise.

Snow eatting fog was ridiculous this morning on rt 2.. some points i could barely see one white line in front of me.. once I got into leominster it cleared up quick though.

You realize that’s perfectly possible with a back door cold front right? ENE wind off the ocean. Somehow I doubt Vermont is seeing a heavy marine influence

Models now come out later

Being it’s currently 67 at RDU and the record high minimum for the day is 60 I’d say we’re gonna blow that out of the water

Only 8 months till November.

Ugggh models come out an hour later now. Depressing times.

80.4 was the high here yesterday. RDU made it to 82 but it was slightly below the record high. Wednesday looks like it has legit potential to push 90 in some areas in the Carolina’s

Models are behaving the same way they were before the big storms in January and February - they don't have a clue this far out and in March and April trying to forecast a frozen event more than a few days in advance is impossible IMO because they are are so borderline to begin with.........

Severe fog here. Near zero visibility on some streets. 51 degrees and high dews. Ate up all the snow. Gone. Only snow mounds/piles left. First time I’ve seen grass since early January

The current record number of non-shared record highs in a single March at KATL is 3 set by two of them: 1974’s Mar 8-10 and 1907’s 20th, 22nd, and 28th. Before today, 1974 had been the only March with a current 4 non-shared record highs for Mar 7-10. Wednesday’s (3/11) high is forecasted to be close to the record of 82. So, if Wed is 83+, then 2026 would join 1974 and 1907 with 3 non-shared record highs. Stay tuned! March 1-11 of 2026 is likely headed to a record high for Mar 1-11, beating out Mar 1-11 of 1974. It’s likely going to end up near the normal for Apr 25-May 5! I may as well say that March 1-15 of 2026 is also likely headed for a record high there for March 1-15.

Yeah that looked pretty good but the rest is pretty shitty.

GFS and EURO suck verbatim....only good outcome is EURO AI.

Good chances.