LibertyBell
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Yes-- and we're more focused on snow instead of cold also because cold has become more rare as the years go by (regardless of enso state, warmer winters are canonical now....)
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Yes one of my favorite and most memorable snowstorms happened during a mild winter overall, 2015-16, over 30 inches of snow in one snowstorm and -1 on Valentines Day! One of my favorite winters for those two reasons alone (we also had some other moderate snowstorms that winter.) We had over 40 inches of snow that season with a seasonal average temperature over 40 degrees.
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Most people around here care about snow not cold. It's perfectly fine for all of February to be in the 60s except for the one or two days on which it snows, that happens a lot around here and with climate change increasing going forward that's how we get our snowstorms, not with monthlong cold and suppressed patterns that deliver snow in places that never get snow.
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Some people think we live on the Gulf Coast and we need it to be extremely cold for it to snow here LOL. There are numerous examples that show otherwise. The January pattern was trash, good riddance to it being gone. We can even have an HECS with a monthly average temperature around 40. Chris has said that storm track matters more for us than temperatures.
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You don't need it to be very cold for in February for it to snow in NYC (see February 2018). This is MUCH better than the crap we had in January. Those 2-3 days are plenty to get a snow storm and it can be in the 60s both before and after the storm.
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Is the reason for this mismatch because it's a la nina after el nino? That explains why we usually have snowy winters in la nina after el nino.
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I missed this lol, how did you get snow at 46 degrees?
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NYC and LGA are still way more than everyone else.
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I agree, 40 inches a year is our long term average (or around there anyway). 48-50 inches is when it becomes too much. Wow it sounds like you experienced a spring squall.
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Thanks, so this really isn't that unusual. We also had a nice snowstorm that season near the end of January.
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wow besides January 1977 it's the only top 10 coldest month in my lifetime.
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I think we're going to see a lot more weather like this instead of snowy midwest and snowy northern new england, etc. Soon enough cold air will be scoured out of NA.
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absolutely epic day, Don, I hope we see a lot of downsloping days just like this during the summer!!
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I don't really remember how much the Park had, was it 3-4 there?
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Thanks Chris, would any of the coldest Februarys (like 2015) or Decembers (like 1989) have made the coldest month list?
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you can get a 1-3 type storm in any pattern, even February 2018 had one.
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wild.... 1780 - On the coldest morning of a severe winter the mercury dipped to 16 degrees below zero at New York City, and reached 20 degrees below zero at Hartford CT. New York Harbor was frozen for five weeks, allowing a heavy cannon to be taken across the ice to fortify the British on Staten Island. (The Weather Channel)
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headed for upper 50s here :-)
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It didn't wait, it's all gone.
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55 at JFK! I love these kinds of days in the summer, JFK would reach 100 before anyone else.
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Back in the early 00s, how many winters in a row did JFK have a January mean below 32.0 Chris?
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If this was July, JFK would be over 100 degrees with a westerly downsloping wind and low humidity, my absolute favorite kind of summer day.
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That Hunga Tonga volcano with the expulsion of water vapor into the atmosphere? Water vapor is also a greenhouse gas.
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Maybe that paper about our warming patterns resembling what happened to Venus might be accurate after all. Venus is clouded over all the time and their greenhouse warming is extreme.
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I totally see it with our climate, it feels like spring now without much effort at all. And the farther north you go, the greater the warm anomalies are. Back in the 80s even if we had a mild winter we were usually guaranteed for at least 2 single digit arctic shots every winter. And even a winter like 1984-85, which had a historic below zero arctic shot was a mild winter overall. You just don't see that kind of extreme cold here anymore even in a below normal temperature pattern.
