LibertyBell

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

I made a 10 foot tall snowman from the snow in my front yard, the tallest snowman I've ever made lol. I used a ladder .....

Was that -21 the lowest temperature there going back to 1977, Don?

maybe Groundhog Day storm redux

today is a famous 9 year anniversary, but you missed this storm JM, I hope your parents took pics of it for you to see when you got back.

it's gotten much more severe over the last few years =\

Highs: EWR: 62 (2018) NYC: 63 (1874) LGA: 62 (1967) JFK: 56 (1967) Lows: EWR: -4 (1936) NYC: -3 (1936) LGA: 3 (1976) JFK: 2 (1976) Historical: 1780 - The coldest day of the coldest month of record in the northeastern U.S. A British Army thermometer in New York City registered a reading of 16 degrees below zero. During that infamous hard winter the harbor was frozen solid for five weeks, and the port was cut off from sea supply. (David Ludlum) wow we went from -3 on this date in 1936 in NYC to 106 in July..... it's also the anniversary of the actual coldest day on record in New York City.

can we recalculate NESIS based on these maps, Tony? I would argue for a thin stripe of 30-36 from Allentown to Queens to Nassau county.

Not to mention that NESIS is inaccurate because they didn't count the 30+ amounts of JFK and Allentown, this storm was MUCH better than March 1960, which was ranked entirely too high.

This storm should be ranked higher than March 1960 and just below January 1996, I don't think they counted the 30"+ at JFK or Allentown.

April 2018 was pretty good too But January 2016 was the only 30 inch snowstorm I've ever seen.

RSV can lead to pneumonia. That's what my sister was worried about. However she was in no shape to go see a doctor or even go down the stairs because she had such a problem breathing and was wheezing. She called her doctor and he prescribed her prednisone which I picked up at the pharmacy.