LibertyBell

Yes but weather does not follow *averages* that's just a mathematical simplifying of weather. I would rather look at when the first 60 and 70 degrees of the season happen. I guarantee that the first 60 of the season happens way before April 19th and that it's actually very rare not to get 60 at least once or twice during the winter. And I don't believe there has been a single April without 70 degrees happening at least once. Averages don't give a good picture of our actual climate. Also, the ocean is great at making the weather boring (I love extremes.)

85 degrees in March 1990, 35 years ago, felt really nice too lol.

lack of foliage? I don't know man, I have very fond memories of the April heatwave of 2002 with 96 degrees. It was very dry and some of the clearest and most beautiful blue skies I have ever seen.

wtf lol

doubtful, because when it's warm here it's usually much colder near the poles.

You wouldn't include Hempstead and White Plains? They have a population density over 10,000 per square mile.

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.