LibertyBell

factory farming is unhealthy unsanitary and immoral and needs to come to an end. so glad I stopped all that nonsense years ago. 100,000 ducks had to be killed at a duck farm out on Aquebogue, it's absolutely tragic.

I'll go slightly higher on both +3 with 4" of precip February and March will likely both be wet and then we will go back to the much drier pattern in April and beyond.

we will probably have just one shot to get it done, we need a February 2008 type 6-8 inch event.

+2 is very doable. +5 maybe not.... I'd say +2 to +3 you can still get a lot of snow with +2 to +3

warmer after the 2nd

I remember when we were going for the record in 1995-96, Newsday put an article up about comparing it to the best winters at Upton and that was the winter 1995-96 was shooting for (and blew away by more than 15 inches thanks to that snowstorm in April.) The things that make 1966-67 really stand out is it came at the end of a historically dry period and after our hottest summer on record to that point, the previous winter was an el nino that heavily favored areas south of us, and the winter got started off right with one of our snowiest Christmas eve storms on record. The period from February through March was also historically snowy (30+ inches in each month at Upton) and featured Long Island's latest below 0 reading (close to the vernal equinox.) There were no HECS blockbuster snowstorms that winter but we did get over a foot of snow in an event in February and an event in March.

well the Sunday through Wednesday period can be considered a thaw, we'll be in the lower 50s by Wednesday. But the real thaw will be in February. Our winters are usually better when we have the thaw in January and reload rather than February anyway.

right, the viral particles are suspended in air longer when the air is dry and cold.. I didn't know about the mucosal immunity system but that makes a lot of sense since that's typically the interface boundary between ourselves and what's floating around in the air. what I also find interesting is that for bacterial infections, the opposite is often true-- they spread faster in warm and humid air.

we'll break it and probably go right back to it later in the season or in springtime. I don't think it ever actually breaks, we just get respites from it for a few weeks.

otherwise you would have gotten a ton of sound effect/enhanced snow, similar to what happened in December 1995 when LGA received 14 inches of snow and Central Park only got 8 inches.

I'd like to think people just weren't prepared, but unfortunately there is a malignant streak in some humans that causes them to seek profit even from tragedy.

Roslyn's hills are difficult to navigate even in the rain, let alone this kind of weather. I had never seen those hills (or the north shore at all) before college, it actually feels like climbing a mountain.

it's actually surprising how much warmer JFK is, is this because of the predominantly westerly downsloping wind? If we had this kind of scenario in the summer, JFK would be baking.

not happening

winter 1966-67 is a case in point with both the west coast and the east coast having a historically great winter in February and March.

why bother-- if it's not going to snow it should be 60 and sunny

we also had a big blizzard on the south shore in February 1979. There was a sharp cut off and there was much less snow to our north. We had around 14 inches in that one.

you must have a bad memory or got me confused with someone else, I'm 6-2, 4-2 is the height of someone in 6th grade maybe.

I wish we could do what LA does and ship our bad teams out of town and bring in teams that can actually win.

it was 10-12 inches in the city but the rest of that winter and the big blizzard the following January more than made up for it.

no but boosting the immune system will help you fight it off obesity, diabetes, etc, always cause bad outcomes. It's why I don't eat any crap and still weigh around 160 pounds lol.

6.75 days below freezing? That's an interesting number lol. Weird how close they were to January 1977 type cold while we were nowhere near that cold.

I really don't remember this at all. I remember a storm that happened at night that caused a delayed opening the next day but not this. I do remember the LIRR strike, that was awful, my dad took a bus to get to Far Rockaway and then the A train from there to get to work in Manhattan.

Makes me think we might be going back towards an early 2010s type of pattern for the next few years (though probably not as cold as those winters.)

DC must have done well too. Reminds me of Vets Day 1987 which was also similar.