Interesting look on the ensembles for the holiday period. Big ridge just to the west with blocking to our north and normal temps.
Not sure if this is a good overruning look or a shredder look.
What I hate is my whole life central park was the basic representative of the general area both recent and historical.
However at this point it has no relevance for any of the tri state area. North South East or west.
Wow lol another storm where literally everywhere else north south east or west did better than NYC. I saw last night they were 37 when even Jersey shore was 34. Heat Island Effect strikes again!
Even if this occurs, why cant it change in 5 years? I forgot the MET who stated it, however the MET on this forum stated that the warm pool is sliding east slowly which should change things.
Happened a LOT in the 80s.
The worst was 1989. Coldest month in my lifetime and the one big storm was mainly rain.
Back then cold dry/warm wet was EXPECTED.
Got this off a 2 second search. Can anyone validate?
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Here are the approximate average seasonal snowfall amounts for Central Park across different periods:
1870-1900 average: 33 inches per year.
1901-1950 average: 29 inches per year.
1951-2000 average: 24 inches per year.
1991-2020 average: 25.1 inches per year (the current climate "normal").
2001-2023 average: 31 inches per year. "
Thanks for this Don.
It must have been even more common prior to 1970, as I believe 100% of the above average snowfall winters from 1970 to 1999 had at least one 8 inch snowfall.