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A report came out how much the fossil fuel cartel has been lying about plastic recycling. MOST PLASTIC CANNOT --REPEAT-- CANNOT BE RECYCLED! BUT THE PLASTIC PUSHERS OF THE DIRTY FOSSIL FUEL CARTELS CONTINUE TO LIE AND DECEIVE BY SAYING IT CAN! THEY'VE BEEN LYING ABOUT PLASTIC RECYCLING FOR 30 YEARS NOW

That was an extension of the March pattern. I wonder taken collectively if it was one of our wettest 5-6 weeks periods ever.

Funny thing about 2007-- the first three weeks of January were warmer than the first three weeks of April lol

where did this storm sneak in from? earlier forecasts had today as sunny

I can't wait until it hits 100. or actually any sun at all, like we will have all week.

From 0 to 60 in 24 hours lol

I wonder if we've ever had that before in one week? Temperatures (all highs I'm assuming) in every decadal range from the teens to the sixties lol.

And we also had it in 1990 and 1991 when we had 22 out of 24 months above normal and you know how bad the winters were back then. It would be interesting if there's any info about the early 70s because we had some really bad winters back then too.

Yes so no allergies for me last night!

2020 was the rare outlier, I can't remember the last time before that NYC got into the 30s (actually I do-- I think it was May 1992 when we were in the upper 30s-- that was the "Pinatubo summer"-- I think before that the last time we were in the 30s in May was in 1977, when we had snow, just like what happened in May 2020.) So 30s in May is basically a once in 2-3 decade event. To my knowledge it has never hit freezing or below later than 4/20 (which happened in 1983 when we had snow that actually stuck.)

are we returning to early 80s type weather in spring lol? It was below freezing on this date in 1981 and of course we know what happened in 1982 and 1983 also had a late April snowstorm on the 20th.

wow it was so cold in the early 80s, even this late in the season below freezing on this date in 1981! April blizzard in 1982 and another snowstorm a week later! April snowstorm in 1983 on 4/20!

The last two springs have been very nice, dry and warm and last April we hit the 90s two days in a row.

Think we'll likely hit 90 at least once in May, Don?

It was really nice until that wind brought back my allergies. All the clear blue skies from this afternoon made this morning's heavy rain a distant memory and then I saw a few puffy cumulus give us a pink sunset.

Why is it our local broadcasters almost uniformly underforecast the temperatures, Don? I even heard them say "no 70s for the next 7 days" and they busted badly on the first day of that forecast!

Lots of auroral activity too

I find extensive heat powerful and memorable, those summers stay in our memories just like big snowstorms do.

a lesson learned from my dearly departed parents, you're very welcome!

Nice to see the sun out!

Yes-- next year is the peak of activity (solar maximum).

Figures, with how many I saw with just a camera and 300mm lens right in the camera's LCD! It's why we had all those gorgeous pink storms around the sun's outer rim during the total solar eclipse too. Is there a timeframe when to keep track of sunspot count prior to the winter-- like, fall, or summer? Interesting thing about 2004, that was right in the middle of a series of snowy winters (2002-03 to 2004-05)

Interesting, Larry! Now that I'm doing solar photography, I'm very interested in sunspots! What is our current sunspot count? When I took pictures of them on Tuesday I could easily see at least a dozen of them! We're near solar maximum now.

It's always about the blocking here-- it's very rare to get 1995-96 or 2010-11 kind of blocking, when that happens it trumps everything else. But those are once in a generation kind of winters.

I thought that with stronger Bermuda highs we'd get more Gulf Coast activity and storms that hit Florida and keep moving west? What's causing them to recurve more now vs what happened in 2004 and 2005 as well as 2020, JM? Typically our hyperactive seasons are focused in the GOM not up here. If you look at the years in which NJ and Long Island got hit by hurricanes, few or none of them were hyperactive.