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Oh don't make me worry more! lol well it was already way out of collimation.

Yeah, I was going to tell you that today is probably not the right day to be messing with it lol.

Pictures off alignment and the jar of peanut butter in the cupboard fell.

Earthlight is pissed because his tv felt off its wall mount. I hope your new scope is okay

Maybe you will buy a seismometer kit or a seismograph next

I see folks using the word "violent" a lot.

That's actually a semi-technical term with a specific meaning-- i.e., that the quake produced MM IX shaking or higher. Usually in violent shaking, you have kitchen cupboards and refrigerators flying open and emptying and buildings collapsing and things like that. I don't think this quake produced violent shaking.

Here's an entry about the MM scale: http://en.wikipedia....intensity_scale

Thanks for that link-- that's my favorite scale We need a scale like that for canes, too lol. It was a IV here based on that scale.

Hope my pictures at home are all on straight

With how hard my house was shaking, I was surprised it was centered so far away, but it was kind of cool/exciting to experience. Now, it might be a good time to have the house inspected lol.

High was 92 here today--- day number 16

Let's see if EWR can beat their extremes from 1993-94.... I believe they reached 105 in July 1993 and dropped to -8 in Jan 1994 (they radiate well.)

Nearly pulled some sneaky 90's but fell short as clouds came in by and 3..

TTN and ACY add another 89. NYC 88

Another couple of hours and we would have done it

And I had yet another annoying 89 degree high, 88.7 to be exact. Stuck at 16 days. How many did you finish with last summer? I recorded 38, 1 more than NYC. Based on the way the next couple weeks are looking, I'd be surprised if I made it to 25 for the total this season. Usually post August 20th, the chances for numerous 90F+ highs dwindle significantly. With the pattern not looking hot through week 2, I'm not optimistic for 90F+ days anywhere near the numbers of last summer.

Last summer I had 33, with 13 of those being 95+ days and 3 100+ days.... so many of those days were towards the high end, that's what was really impressive. We usually get a couple of 90 degree days into September, but very few and far between.

high of 92 / 90+ day number 15.... LOW HUMIDITY!

89.5 was the high here, so that's 90 in my book--- number 14!

Only JFK and LGA didnt get one they were stuck at 89.

EWR: 95

TTN: 94

PHL: 93

TEB: 92

NYC: 91

ACY: 91

I hit 91 so it's going in my book.... my 13th day of 90+, two more than JFK We will our second heat wave by tomorow.

Crazy that EWR has NYC and LGA by 10 90F days. Is it just me or do LGA's highs this summer seem cooler/more in line with NYC than last year?

Today brought me to #14 with a high of 91.3. I've had a few 89.0-89.4 degree days, and those are annoying. I wish it'd either be lower or break 90, as I basically consider 89F to be 90, 1 degree certainly can't be felt outside.

More N-NW winds keeping NYC and LGA lower compared to EWR and JFK

Got 11 90+ degree days so far and 2 over 100

My 8th 90 degree day today, a high of 93

A high of 93 here today, 7th 90+ day of the year so far.

Tony, you forgot to post yesterday's highs

November 8th actually. I was kind of bummed because I just missed getting a couple inches. The best was in CT.

We even had some snow here but it didnt stick-- still, it's the first time I've seen even snow in the air in November in over 15 years!

That event, like 5/9/77, 10/10/79, and the NNJ snows of late April '83/'86, showed how climo-capricious the very early/very late snows can be. Nary a flake in my Maine foothills BY, but as we headed to IL (granddaughter #3 arrival) on the 19th we saw snow OG at both ends of I-84, shady shoulders in N.CT and the hills east of Scranton, PA. Then, 2nd day after the snowfall, we saw considerable snow in the woods along I-80 in W.PA, along with some trees broken by leaf-on accum.

Edit: Wonderful pics of 12/08; wish I some like it for 1/98 in Gardiner/AUG. THAT event was the most impactful wx of any kind I've experienced, and #2 just might be the NNJ ice storm exactly 45 years earlier. At least that 1953 storm is partly responsible for my lifelong interest in wx and trees.

12/08: I'm still not quite sure how/why MBY had the same rain (2", albeit after 4" snow) at the same 2m temps as ORH, yet escaped with 0.2" ice accretion and lots of cold puddles, but your dewpoint comment offers another clue - perhaps higher over MBY. I already think we had a thinner, if equally cold, sub-32 surface layer, so that the raindrops splashed in at less cool temps than down your way.

How did you do in late April 1983? We got a couple of inches of snow here on the 19th-20th, and it was my latest accumulating snow ever. N NJ got close to 20 inches I think-- I know the Poconos did. Albany was crushed!

That was a cold and solid winter for here. December 1983 had a couple good SW flow events that gave some good snow followed by those brutal arctic outbreaks. February 1984 was a dud though...it was an absolute torch with little snow. December, January, and March were very wintry months that season though.

The storm you are thinking of is the March 28-29, 1984 storm. It gave 17.6" of snow here. Extremely dynamic storm with a lot of thundersnow in the Boston suburbs and wind gusts over hurricane force. (Blue Hill had a gust over 100mph) Perfect way to end a winter.

Wow Will, it sounds like a mini Fools Day storm!

EWR/ACYt add one, JFK at 89

So close lol-- more sunshine would have done it.

Yeah. No guarantees it works like that this year though of course. '05-'06 had several SW flow events but it also had the Feb '06 coastal. We already know about '00-'01 and its several coastal storms. '83-'84 had several SW flow events (esp in Dec '83)...'74-75 and '70-'71 had a ton. '62-'63 not so many, but one or two.

83-84 also had the notable March 1984 storm which would be quite a way to end a relatively snowless stretch of Marches we've had recently. Was that a bookend winter, Will? I know January was very cold (we had several very cold Januarys back in the early and mid 80s) but relatively dry.

'07-'08, '05-'06, '00-'01, '83-'84, '74-75, '70-'71, '62-'63, '56-'57.

83-84 is an example of a very cold and somewhat dry winter (I dont remember there being much snow but there was a ton of cold).... somewhat El Chichon influenced perhaps? I remember it showed up in some of the ENSO analogs posted in the NYC subforum.

That's an awesome pic. We had some great looking storms last year. Very classic mid-level features on those three of 12/26, 1/12, and 1/27. I have a feeling we'll see a lot more SW flow events this coming winter.

Even with a weaker la nina and a neg nao Will? I thought weak la ninas were supposed to be great for coastals.

Thanks, those are some amazing radars, Will! Do you think that warmer water off the coast may have played some part and making the Big Three storms last winter exceptionally dynamic?

I'll be showing all 3 storms at some point in my presentation.

Will, maybe you could use the one from Jan 26-27 also, I remember some rotation was detected a few miles south of here on radar just as the second part of the storm got going and there was loud booming thunder and vivid lightning along with thundersleet that eventually changed to thundersnow. It actually did feel like it was hailing as the sleet was marble size and I actually think real hail was reported with this storm (weird to have hail and sleet together along with a possible tornado in a winter storm lol.)