LibertyBell

Saturday/Sunday should be fine (a nice weekend.)

Nice, I'm on the southeast part of that pink circle lol. I think Hempstead should be included within it because it's a densely populated urban area too. So should White Plains. Anyone within the orange coloring (density of 10,000 people per square mile.)

Useless fraudulent cold that disappears as soon as the sun comes up.

No one wants this crap useless cold weather now. When will climate change finally become strong enough so we don't get this crap cold windy weather anymore after March 10th and April. That's what I'm waiting for! After the time change it should never be below 40 until next fall.

They should still have one at Midway, they probably both have weather stations.

Probably warm neutral.

Have they gone to bad colleges or something where they don't teach the difference? It makes sense to us and I call them out on it when I see it and they always ignore that. Also, if you're seeing records being broken frequently of course that's abnormal lol. It almost seems like they are trying to play down climate change?

Thanks I was wondering about normals vs averages. TWC for example overemphasizes averages and never mentions normals.

I was interesting in finding the total snowfall, liquid equivalent and maximum snow depth for the January 2016 super blizzard (12 continuous hours of blizzard conditions in a 30 hour snowstorm) at JFK because it's historically important, the largest city station to record a 30 inch snowstorm.

I think it's the zookeeper (or so they say.)

nice and it rained for many hours which is ideal.

Things like runoff and precipitation rate (not just total precipitation) and condition of the ground and type of material on the ground are important too.

Nice sunny and warm Tuesday and Wednesday and again Saturday and Sunday!!

1 inch is good, not the 2-3 inches which would be too much and cause flooding. This is why I don't find drought maps useful-- they go strictly by numbers. Getting a multi inch monster rainstorm wouldn't solve our drought problem, it's just useless runoff and does more harm in the form of flooding than good. But looks great on drought maps. What we need is smaller rainfalls of around an inch or so once every week or 10 days, that's more beneficial than big rainfall events. This is what we used to get in the past not these big 3 inch rainstorms that became all too common starting about 20 years ago.

The windiest winter ever at JFK while 1995-96 was the least windiest, Chris? Do our snowiest winters tend to be less windy?

It's like how people feel heat based on number of 90 degree days.

Yes it's particularly notable in an event like January 1996. Unfortunately the spotter at Central Park is somewhat lazy and they also mess up in borderline events where it melts during the event and some measurements are missed. For example in one event this winter they recorded 0.6 while everyone else (including the airports) all recorded between 2-2.5 inches.

Central Park still has undermeasuring issues compared to the airports

in NYC snowfalls have been undermeasured in recent times too, January 1996 for example, a major outstanding case.

I compiled a list of snowstorms that were probably underestimated. Beginning with January 1996 and working our way backwards to include February 1978, December 1947, February 1920, February 1899 and March 1888. Also keep in mind many of our borderline events that switched back and forth between precipitation types were also likely not measured properly because of this behavior of only measuring when an event ended, with lots of melting occurring before that happened.

We had some amazing winters here back then too, culminating in the great Blizzard of 1888 (that season had many historic blizzards nationwide.) The 1800s were pretty wild overall, in 1896 we had our only month with over 30 inches of snow (in March) followed by a historic 10 day super heatwave that killed over 1,500 people in August. That heatwave propelled Teddy Roosevelt into the presidency as he was the police commissioner here and allowed people to sleep in parks and turn on fire hydrants to cool off for the first time. And then of course we had the amazing winter of 1898-1899 that culminated in one of the greatest arctic outbreaks and blizzards of all time that dumped snow from Tampa to NJ and 3 feet of snow in the southernmost point of New Jersey, Cape May.

La Ninas used to be much colder and snowier back then. As a matter of fact when 2010-11 happened the analog people came up with was that one.

Chris how come 1993 is nowhere on this list for JFK? Did they get all their heat in that one heat wave? I also remember September 1993 had a few 90 degree days at JFK in the middle of the month. It isn't even on LGA's top list!

Yes, JFK had almost as many 90 degree days as Central Park in 2010 and more 95 and 100 degree days!

So definitely snow in the Poconos, at around 2000 ft elevation and south of I-80 too?