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EWR: 68 (1967)NYC: 68 (1967)LGA: 68 (1967)JFK: 65 (1967) wow very warm on this date in 1967 in the middle of a historically snowy winter!

We might stay at or below freezing today and not break it until Sunday, Tony. When was the last time we had 7 straight days of 32 or below?

but a storm can be anything from a thunderstorm to a snowstorm to a rainstorm.... I like temperate cyclone as a descriptor because it describes the type of storm it is.

How does the wind get so high over there, that's over Cat 3 hurricane strength? And why call it *storm* instead of temperate cyclone? *storm* isn't very descriptive.

Thanks this describes the symptoms to a tee, an awful sore throat and a very dry cough, and then it progressed to wheezing and chest pain and being out of breath all the time (which is when I was really worried) but then that lessened. I read that it can progress to pneumonia, which is what really worried me.

I find this terminology a little weird.... why is it called *storm* Eowyn (a name from the Lord of the Rings?) instead of temperate cyclone Eowyn? *Storm* is a very generic term that doesn't really describe what kind of storm it is....

Maybe no need of a ferry if you can walk across the ice?

Can you walk across it?

on top of that many of those subzero outbreaks back then were without any snow cover at all-- I remember there was definitely none in January 1985.

Yes, I feel the same way, if it's sunny and nice, we go to spring mode lol.

+PNA is more important for us than the NAO that's for sure.

So were December and January, except January has been the driest one on record here. That's the fly in the ointment. It doesn't matter if it's cold or not, the dryness will likely continue.

It sounds a lot like here. We're having our driest January on record and it's not even close. I saw that Omaha Nebraska has even less snow than NYC does.

Toms River was the only coastal location to go below zero in this arctic outbreak, -1 this morning!

certainly not too much washing of hands haha

What was the lowest temperature recorded in Louisiana? I read that they were forecast to get to zero or at least close?

wow absolutely fascinating Chris, each arctic outbreak had its own personality!! Something else I find interesting is how much more frequent the subzero arctic outbreaks were prior to 1985 and how rare they have become since then. January 1994 and then nothing until February 2016. The ones I remember offhand were January 1977, December 1980, January 1981 (two that season!), January 1982, January 1984, January 1985..... then a gap...... January 1994 (two that month)....... then an even larger gap and then February 2016. We probably would have had a subzero arctic outbreak in the 1982-83 winter too if we didn't have a super el nino! Otherwise we had one in every winter from 1980-81 through 1984-85! I'm defining subzero arctic outbreak as one in one one of the four metro area stations (NYC, EWR, LGA, JFK) reached 0 or lower for at least one low. Did I miss any or were those the ones that happened in the period starting from the 1976-77 winter until now?

That's what I was thinking too, the flu, even the *common cold*, etc. have gotten worse since covid.

Is it really great for DC and Baltimore though, I thought it was right around average there. Great from North Carolina and points southward though.

Oh the Midwest has lacked in snowfall too.

Yes, the dry and cold up here has resulted in a major RSV outbreak (viruses are more communicable in dry and cold weather, bacteria in warm and humid weather.)

it's February after all, it can snow here-- and snow a lot-- even with a +5 February.

it's also the anniversary of the greatest snowstorm the east coast has ever seen, the famous January blizzard of 2016! https://www.weather.gov/okx/Blizzard_Jan2016 Over 30 inches at both JFK and Allentown is quite the accomplishment!

Ray I thought you said that you believe the next two seasons will be less snowy because of the lag effect from the solar max? Then again, it can't get less snowier than now, so there's no way to go but up.

thank goodness, because the January pattern absolutely sucked