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17 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Yankees home opener April 1996 was a classic and one of my favorites of all time! We had 4 inches of snow here.

I was working in Berkeley Heights NJ at the time and the snow was coming down hard. Could barely see out the window. I had WFAN on and MIke and the Mad Dog were laughing at Steinbrenner and MLB for not postponing the game.

On 1/12/2025 at 1:02 AM, coastalplainsnowman said:

That's what makes it even more of a shame.  The guy had been averaging over 35 HRs / 100 RBIs a year and was already at between 400-450 HRs when he likely started.

If memory serves from that BALCO book, he was jealous of all the attention McGuire and Sosa were getting in 1998, yet looking up his 1998 he was 'only' 37/122/.303.  Having said that, given that he was getting into his mid 30s, and the fact that he averaged 52 HRs a year from 2000-2004, I don't think it's a stretch to say that it increased his production by 50%.  I know that's less than Liberty's number, but the point is that right around the time that his neck disappeared, something sure seemed to have a significant effect.

Eh, I don't care. Next to Rickey Henderson he was the best and most fun player I had ever seen. 

Might be a nostalgia thing, but baseball was better in those days. But that's just me.

Carry on about the snow.... 

1 hour ago, IrishRob17 said:

Yep, you got it. On my chart 12/20 and 12/22 are equivalent. Someone smarter than I may make a correction on that but I figure its close enough. 

Thanks! 

No idea if this is where to post this question, but many eons ago, they used to be a sun angle chart that showed what date the day's sun angle was equivalent to.

Hopefully that makes sense. I'd make my own, but I can't recall if Dec 22nd is equivalent to December 20th? And then it works back daily until you hit June 21st? 

13 minutes ago, ForestHillWx said:

We are in Chester, about 12 miles north west of the epicenter. 

My wife called me very panicked as she did not know what it could be. We lost a few pictures and some of the window treatments broke. 

i work in Long Valley, our building shook something fierce. 

Just now, IrishRob17 said:

That's a good analogy, 2011 did feel like vertigo where today just felt like a vibration and shaking. I'm in the same building that I was in 2011 but was on the third floor then, first floor now. I'm not sure how much of a factor that is but to me 2011 was worse so its interesting to read everyone's different take here.  

I'm 10 miles NW of Lebanon, NJ, so obviously this was far worse than 2011. 

It felt like someone hit the building at first, but then the rattling and rumbling continued and about 1/2 way thru it everyone stood up in horror. I was just standing there, looking outside seeing if any trees were moving (not sure why, but it was the first thing I did) and then we thought maybe something happened on the first floor with the welding shop. Then we all went outside and froze our butts off for 15 mins. 

3 hours ago, Allsnow said:

 

Who the heck was keeping records back in the 1700's... prior to the Revolutionary War?...

Just now, Brian5671 said:

haha--yeah you were closer to it so probably more evident there vs here....

it had some folks shaken up here (no pun intended). 

I remember the 2011 one. I was working in New Providence at the time, was sitting at my desk and suddenly it felt like I was on a wave. I actually started to think I was being hit with some weird vertigo attack. 5 seconds later my middle daughter texts me from VA, visiting my in-laws, with "Earthquake!"

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

I think you'd need to be inside and sitting to really feel it...

I was standing up, 2nd floor of my office here in Long Valley and we most definitely felt it. Pretty much evacuated the building the moment it was over. 

Of course my friend in California is making fun of us. 

21 hours ago, JustinRP37 said:

We should honestly just keep DST year round. Changing clocks doesn’t do anything it was originally proposed to do. 

Biggest issue with that is, the mornings. Sunrise wouldn't happen til after 8 AM for much of December. All for what? An extra hour of daylight when it's cold out anyway? 

So a real possibility of dodging more storms this upcoming holiday weekend? At least here in north Jersey. 

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

Bud Selig should never have been allowed to be commish, the guy sucked.

Golf is awesome, I live between two courses lol

 

Lucky you! 

16 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

this new schedule is so weird lol, I hope we don't have any of these games with NL teams  in September during the pennant race.

 

I just looked and LOL at this schedule. September the Yankees play THREE interleague series. Milwaukee (which I still find strange as an NL team, but I digress), at Pittsburgh and then vs Arizona. 

Schedule makers were a little nicer to the Mets as they okay two interleague series in early September. 

Anyway, on to spring, enjoy the gardening, the baseball and if you golf, fairways and greens. 

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

thats opening day....the snow season is over, we need to move on (to warm and dry weather hopefully)

Giants are in town to take on the Yankees (what a strange season opening series) and the Giants are going to feel right at home with the cool cloudy weather

Read thru the last couple of pages... It felt like a bunch of students departing for summer vacation and heading in different directions. 

Better luck next winter. 

8 minutes ago, WarrenCtyWx said:

Same for me in northern Warren County but the warning is for 6-8 inches.

My AccuWeather app has 1-3" here on the  border of Warren and Morris counties. 

4 hours ago, Picard said:

It'll be interesting to see where the watches/warnings go up and how they align with the final totals in our area.  I'm at exactly 800 feet verified by GPS and topo map.  Parts of Morris County, Jefferson, Oak Ridge, Mount Arlington, are a few hundred feet higher than me, as are other parts of Sparta.  Even a portion of Rockway sits over 1000 feet.  

If anyone remembers March 31 - April 1, 1997.  We had a very elevation driven intense storm up here.  I remember leaving work in Morris Plains to a rain/snow mix, and nothing on the ground, to over a foot with stuck and abandoned cars on Route 15 once I hit the higher parts of Jefferson and into Sparta.  I was a kid all of 22 at the time, driving a stupid Saturn sedan back and forth to work.  I still don't know how I made it home in that thing.

 

I live in Hackettstown and recall that storm. We didn't get anything down here in the valley.. But go up the mountain on rt 46 to Budd Lake and it was like being on another planet with decent snow.

And if I recall correctly, it got warm real quick after that storm and it was gone within a week. 

1 hour ago, wishcast_hater said:

I just watched a video on YouTube about that yesterday. Had Sam Champion and Al Roker clips - The Good Ol' Days

Have the link handy? Love old TV clips like that. In remember that storm well  

Oddly enough I want to say there was a major warm up right after and the snow didn't stick around long  

5 hours ago, MikeS said:

nothing here in north jersey (wayne)

We had a trace/dusting here in NW NJ (Warren/Morris border) and it was all gone by 9:30 am  

This weather is trash. 

That's it, that's all I got. 

21 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Yup that's it for winter. Get ready for allergy season. Growing season will kick into high gear with temperatures mostly in the 60s a full month ahead of schedule.

Weather wise it looks extremely boring

Sounds fine to me. 

I'm golfing on Friday. 

Til next winter...

On 3/7/2022 at 9:10 PM, ForestHillWx said:

That’s right over my hood. Saw a wild amber flash to my south; I’m guessing a local transformer. 

Our house is between Mendham/long valley and bedminster is south. 

I'm late with this, but we're in hackettstown and never saw any Lightning or heard any thunder Monday evening. Nasty wind though. Nearly blew a chair off the front deck. 

Presently at work here in Long Valley it is white rain and no nice way to say it... Crappy out.  

Is this winter's last gasp?

62 and very breezy here in western Morris county. The breeze is turning into a fairly wicked wind now. 12:15 it was 60 with no wind. 

Was nice to be out at lunch. 

1 hour ago, rgwp96 said:

My town doesn’t even have a turf football field yet. Only hs in Morris county that doesn’t  have one .  That may change this year though I hope 

Grass is so much safer though. I get why turf on HS fields is a thing, but give me a grass field anytime. 

1 hour ago, North and West said:

Well, there you go. Grass fields take a while.


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So do fairways on golf courses. Snow in March, stinks.

When I was a kid playing baseball and later coaching it, snow in March bugged me because it meant cold practices and a muddy field. 

7 hours ago, the_other_guy said:

I should be like you guys talking about a never coming snowstorm when it’s 60 out? No thanks.

This will be one of the nicest days of the year…trust me

 

Wednesday is supposed to be even better!