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1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

I am still waking up during the night to see the overnight models. I am hoping for a snowstorm. 

As I sit watching the mid winter sun shine through barred windows facing my beloved postage stamp yard, I wonder. The plants I brought in, late fall, are still bravely remaining green. The incongruity of the in pot orchid sitting next to the small, still blooming and perky white poinsettia, that refuses to believe that it’s time is over. Surrounded by dependent house cats, a legacy of my wife’s love I look longingly at the muted browns and concrete grey of the back. The sunlight growing stronger, I think of a line from a difficult read I have just finished: “There’s nothing left to surrender.” As always ......

1 hour ago, uncle W said:

on this date in 1958 NYC got 8-10" of wind swept snow around the area...temperature dropped to 3 degrees a day later...I was in the third grade at the time and remember what I was doing before and after the storm...

I was in the 7th grade in Saint Ephrems . I lived on 75th just off 11th. School was open but my parents kept me home. Spent the entire day outside., wonderful memory. As always. ..

9 hours ago, weatherpruf said:

I'm way past it and looking at seed catalogs. I'd organize the tackle box but after 40 years, i don't wanna mess with tradition....saltwater fishing has gotten so bad I have rigs I'll never use again ( winter flounder, whiting, fluke ) due to the disappearance of the species or draconian regulations. A proposed 3 bluefish limit this year....a fish once so bountiful people didn't even want them.

Sad but so true. I remember the sheep's head which the bay was named for and party boating for whiting and Ling during the cold season. My father used to pull up good sized porgies, flounder and blue claw crab off the narrows, shore road sea wall between the 4th and 14th avenues. Times long gone. No need for restrictions. Heaven help you if you get caught today with a short sized fluke, even though you can find even smaller specimens at the local markets after the trawlers drop their ill gotten loads. ( the trawlers, that I feel are responsible, still have no size restrictions.) As always .....

13 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

 

I not worried, S19. I have faith that you will be back by the next legitimate NYC frozen precipitation. threat. Then again, stay calm and get comfortable, it may be awhile. As always ....

1 hour ago, Dan76 said:

You still put cookies out  

Only when there is a crackling blaze on the hearth. As always ......

33 minutes ago, Dr. Dews said:

sweet

Soulmates and the best day/date for it. Now that’s heartwarming. As always.......

1 hour ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

The first Robin red breast of the season has shown up this morning. I'm out...see y'all for severe/hurricane season!

Ralph, as a defining descriptive moment to this cold season and it’s snow totals you might as well insert the word bare. As always ......

39 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

It's crazy the models are already poking into March. This means in two months they will be poking into May! 

“Poking”? Wiz may have inadvertent omitted a critical letter from the word. As always ....

12 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

If that is true to size then I pass 

That surely would add a sense of drama to that contest in Coney Island on July 4th. As always .....

1 hour ago, donsutherland1 said:

An insightful video (h/t Mark Boslough):

 

And what remains will be our eulogy. As always .....

1 hour ago, rclab said:

Almost 55 years ago PF Sloans “Eve Of Destruction” was recorded and released. Today, with an appropriate retooling of the lyrics, it could well serve as the background for the report Don kindly posted. As always .....

Sadly, Don, the one lyric that could remain unchanged is “But you tell me over and over and over again my friend, Ah you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction” As always ...

19 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Just have to get through another 10 days of crap and maybe we ease up on the toiletry. 

Providing we don’t run out of Preparation H. As always ....

10 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I know you and Scoots are very frustrated and want to move on but just hold on a little longer, it’s not over, hold my hand...I’ll take you there.

With a nod to the West Side, A model like that will bring you sorrow, you’ll need another one tomorrow ...... as always .....

2 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

The NOAA also reported that January 2020 was the warmest January on record globally.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202001

Almost 55 years ago PF Sloans “Eve Of Destruction” was recorded and released. Today, with an appropriate retooling of the lyrics, it could well serve as the background for the report Don kindly posted. As always .....

3 minutes ago, psv88 said:

I thought you said we would get two massive blizzards?

This cold season only (I hope) a revamped definition of the term Blizzard. A brief flurry with a stiff breeze, salt drifts optional. As always.....

55 minutes ago, dendrite said:

We should make a panic room thread.

If thing get really out of hand we can always see if WXWATCHER007, from the Mid Atlantic, will come north for a working vacation. As always ....

18 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

What?!?! That’s it. I’m digging you up, packing your bones, and shipping you back to Philly where you belong.

Well 007 you’ve finally done. I’m heading to church ( I hope it’s foundations are solid ) and lighting a candle with a brief prayer to Saint Dimitar. As always. ......

14 minutes ago, mappy said:

half this forum would be limited to 5 posts if we went that route, sadly. mdecoy is easy to ignore. can't fix his unhappiness though. 

A fine person, NIBOR, posted in the NYC banter thread dated 01/27/2020 P, during an ongoing difficult period, the following: “ Maybe the real treasure of winter was the friends we made along the way” I find this sentiment applicable up and down the east coast, during this disappointing cold season. As always ....

38 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

When the euro is on our side , it busts but when it's not on our side it doesnt bust.

What an area we live in.

Anthony you have just provided a weather models definition of Murphy’s Law. As always ......

17 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Maybe next winter

I changed it for good luck but I guess it's not working .

Since the current cold season is so full of wintry weather excitement we could have a suggest a new name for Anthony exercise. I suggest ( with a nod to the bottom of Unc’s posts) ...... SWPRO...... As always .....

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Can we get some cheese with all this whine.

Sad year when even the whine is non-alcoholic. As always ......

4 hours ago, mappy said:

 

thanks guys -- i'm not one who believes in god, but any good vibes would be great. 

I believe in positive energy. It resonates off the members of this extraordinary forum. All of that and more is with you . As always .....

12 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

It's a colder run

Who cares. Snow is snow.

An attitude that will lead to a long, happy and healthy life. As always ....

10 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Bingo!

Nothing motivates would-be noblemen and state's people like the moods of their constituency - the only other way around that in a democratic voter-society is cheating. Thank god there's no ...

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Humor aside, if the ballast of lever pullers abandon the profligate presumption of entitlement to natural resources... finally connecting with the consequence-causality circuitry [ add finite science here .. ], the complexion of the office seeker is forced to change.   

But note I said 'complexion.' 

Execution in keeping with those promises that answer to ethos is entirely up to institutions put in place over the generations, charged with the responsibility to ensure those elected officials are 'owning up' ... It's a good thing we haven't seen any attempt at the dissolution of those agencies and institution, then, right ?

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The total model of corruption could not be more patently clearly afoot in IR -based societies,.  And, I still posit that the main reason why such brazen antics go down, and there is only passive moral recovery or even much vitriol at all, is because of post-Industrial Revolution giving rise to conveniences that rescue the existential state of society at all levels, from having to eat the shit of their own mistakes.  But, the environment in that metaphor, quite succinctly becomes the dumping ground. In a baser 101 philosophical perspective:  nature is about balancing positive and negatives... That's it.  All of reality exist because at some quantum Plank scale...there is an imbalance that is attempting to get to neutral. That tug of war integrates to a Universe of time...space... energy and your life!  And everything and anything that can be perceived happens because of that scaffold.  So, it is quite logical to assume that 5 billion Industrial breast feeders are getting fat, something else has to be getting skinny.   Metaphors are fun...     

Simple terms, if we lived in a reality where mistakes resulted in pain? Oh f yeah, people would sit up and take notice ...immediately.   But the IR wipes humanity ass, by gobbling up even more resources to "save" them from having to conserve .. protecting all from seeing the consequences.  Thus, the ease at convenience to deny, becomes self-reinforcing: 'I denied it last week, I got a raise, therefore, denial is right.'   And that becomes a runaway selfish culture among many other abhorrent characters. 

The four most frightening words out of the over four hundred you wrote were “nature is about balancing” . Billy S. Said it best “What Fools These Mortals Be” .... as we end up in a never ending midsummers nightmare. As always ....

4 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

Southern Texas down to the Mexico border is going to have double the snow in the next 24 hours than most of us have had all season. At this rate, Cuba will see a WSW level event before we do...

When such an event is forecast for Bermuda it will be time for me to take that long walk on a very short pier. As always .....