LibertyBell
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I was wondering where the clippers and bowling ball storms disappeared to, we used to get 2-4 and 3-5 inch snowstorms multiple times a year and those are very rare now. I remember the last time we got storms like that was during the 03-04 and 04-05 winters. We even got super clippers that redeveloped offshore (January 2005). Bowling ball systems in 1993-94 starting in December.
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no need for advisories-- they just issued a multi county flash flood warning !! For Somerset, Monmouth, Morris and Hunterdon countries until 7:30 pm
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Getting very windy here now.
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But both of these remind me of the 80s and early 90s when we had a lot of hugger and suppressed tracks too. But we at least got to 20 inches of snowfall in most years (especially during the early and middle 80s) because of moderate 3-5 inch events. It was very windy back then too-- we used to have snow to rain followed by wind chill warnings and temperatures near 0 and wind chills down to -60 (I know they calculated it differently back then.) It was always either cold, windy and dry or wet and warm/mild lol.
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
You'd think with the dust causing darker skies the temperature should have been less (like our darker skies during the Canadian wildfires a few years ago). In 1936 the skies got darkened over NYC like they were a few years ago when we had an AQI of 500 in June, do you think the AQI would have been even worse during the Dust Bowl era and if so why wouldn't the dust blocking the sun actually cause lower temperatures like it did a few years ago? -
Yeah I saw ants swarming around my steps when I went to get the mail the other day, that reminded me to get started.
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Make sure you spray something to keep the bug population from coming inside your house too.
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moderate to heavy rain here now I hope this doesn't cause the bug population to explode, remind me to spray Bug Barrier when the sun comes out on Sunday, I spray it all around my property to keep the bugs out.
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Thanks! My house there is just one county north of Allentown and they had 2.6 inches of rain with the last storm, so it must be rather muddy there now.
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How is it by Allentown and the Poconos, I need to go there next weekend.
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whats more important as far as CC is concerned are rising dew points, warmer mins and stuck patterns that repeat over and over again.
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well they are the ones who really need it. I just hope they don't get the problems they had in Maryland yesterday where an emergency was declared.
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these weird stuck ULL are also responsible for our rainy spring, I'm completely done with them.
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I hate upper level lows, first thing I would do with climate modification is prevent them from ever being able to form or get stuck.
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it's a late 80s pattern, we saw winters like this in 1988-89 and 1989-90 too. February 1989 and December 1989 being cases in point, historic snowfalls well to our south and along the coastal southeast and midatlantic.
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wow that reminds me of what 2013-14 was here March 2014 was suppressed to the south if it weren't for that, it would have been a snowfall record here, we went from a forecast for 2 feet of snow in the first few days of March to 2 inches in about 48 hours lol.
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I think the way the NAO is calculated needs to be changed. What is traditionally considered a -NAO doesn't behave like it and isn't really a -NAO. For example we have to divide them into -- west based vs east based vs south based vs north based.
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February 2015 was my absolute favorite winter month on record and it even extended into March!! We had lots of cold, lots of snow and long duration snow cover too!!
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
It was partially manmade and partially natural Chris. I am 100% against conventional farming because of pesticides and fertilizers that destroy the environment and our health but in the case of what happened during the Dust Bowl, a combination of factors was involved. We had a long duration La Nina pattern back then which made it hotter and drier. It started in 1931 (leading to the extremely warm 1931-32 summer and It peaked in Summer 1936.) Summer 1936 was historic on every level. I wonder what the airports would have hit for highs with NYC hitting 106 lol. NYC has never even hit 105 before or since. Was Newark around in 1936 at least? By the way, a long duration La Nina pattern is also blamed as being responsible for wiping out the Mayans because of the record drought it caused. -
Yes, but it was historically hot during peak heating in late July. We haven't approached that kind of heat since then.
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Yes, this is what indicates to me that the boundaries between the seasons are becoming blurred. Maybe it's more accurate to say that for Spring and Summer it's more like a slow bake oven. It's what we see in the tropics all the time, but down there it's natural and a result of being closer to the Equator and not seeing the extreme differences in sunlight that we get from winter to summer.
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There's always an exception here and there, but the rule is a good one that seems to work out more times than not. I'd argue that 2010-2011 was a much better winter and was more in line with the great winters in my analysis, in 2009-2010 the biggest snowstorm missed to our south, that one still angers me lol. Snowicane at the end of February was a great storm, but was half rain for the eastern half of the subforum.
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It gets boring if it lasts too long lol. I just want like a 3-4 day stretch like that every summer.
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That was one of the highlights of that winter lol. Nature celebrating the new year with a bang.
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People suffered second degree feet burns during the 1993 Summer when they went to the beach and I remember people were frying eggs on the sidewalk lol.
