LibertyBell

Is it unusual to have it so early? I thought it usually begins around April 15th, right after Tax Day.... and what causes it a negative NAO?

Well, I would compare it to Japan and wish we had their climate, look how much snow they get up there on the north coast of Japan! I love temperature extremes, I hope we get 100 degrees here during the summer at the coast on a nice westerly wind.

I can't imagine how they could make a bulletproof bikini. You'd need some kind of force field around the parts of the body that aren't covered. Stormlover is right, this is an image that can't be unseen!

NYC would have the lowest crime rate in the world .....

You must be a penguin

a vicious circle aka feedback loop

That last event with over 1.5 inches of rain hopefully helped. We'll be okay if we get 1-1.5 inch rainfall events every 10 days or so. People like nice weather lol. At least we aren't getting the horrible flooding that causes rivers in those counties to rise out of their banks and make people have to abandon their homes which was happening every year for the last few years until now.

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralPark/monthlyannualprecip.pdf We haven't had under 40 inches of rain in any year since 2012. Even 2002 had 45 inches of rain. 2001 had 35 inches of rain, that drought must have started then. From 1869 to 1971 there was not a single year in NYC with 60 inches of rainfall. The first time it happened was in 1972. Since 2006 it's happened 6 times.

it's like with the temperatures, we compare it to long term normals vs recent normals. We also need to discuss the highly abnormal amounts of rain of the past 20 years. If we end up with annual rainfall in the 40-45 inch range it's still normal. If it's below 40 inches then I'd start to get worried.

It's lawn mowing time around here...

It sounds just like Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy!

Sounds like the warming happens in periodic jumps rather than a smooth rise. Is the warming resulting in more extreme el nino events that cause this?

and then 0.6 inches of snow in early April lol

I like that red spot in NE PA, what was the total in Mt Pocono from this storm, over 30 inches Tony?

Was 86 the highest for that entire month, Tony? And for NYC and JFK too?

I wonder how much sleet the city had.

1990 - Fifty-three cities reported record high temperatures for the date as readings warmed into the 70s and 80s from the Gulf coast to the Great Lakes Region. Charleston WV was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 89 degrees. It was the fourth of five consecutive days with record warm tempeatures for many cities in the eastern U.S. There were 283 daily record highs reported in the central and eastern U.S. during between the 11th and the 15th of March. (The National Weather Summary) Just a historic March 1990 wow and those record lows 3 years later on the same date.... Lows: EWR: 17 (1993) NYC: 12 (1888) LGA: 18 (1993) JFK: 19 (1993) NYC still couldn't beat the records from 1888 1960 - Northern Georgia was between snowstorms. Gainesville GA received 17 inches of snow during the month, and reported at least a trace of snow on the ground 22 days in March. Snow was on roofs in Hartwell GA from the 2nd to the 29th. (The Weather Channel) March 1960 was the rare cold and snowy month that was a great winter month for both South AND North!

I didn't even remember that we had a blizzard warning for this lol.

It's actually pretty humid here too, feels like later in the season with sunny and humid hazy skies. Chicago supposed to hit 81 today.

Interesting-- I like drier here because drier means hotter. In the summer, when we have a wet one, it's also cooler because the sun's radiation is used up trying to dry the ground. I don't like averages because they don't properly account for day time extreme temperatures and hot days (highs above 90). That's how I judge a summer's heat.

The sun comes out during the day (like it is out now) and it's cloudy at night. It's mostly sunny now, about 6 hours too late.

Next total lunar eclipse is March 3 next year, at a more convenient time, totality begins at 6:04 am, 24 minutes before the moon sets. It's doable to take pictures of that here weather and clouds permitting, we had a similar one to that on November 8 2022 and I took these pictures between 6:18-6:30 and the moon set at 6:42 am.

when will the westerly flow resume? we need a strong enough westerly flow to overpower the ocean, that strong Pac jet should help

Haha this is awesome. Lots of money in this for any prospective space colonies we might build. PS you must have had an awesome view of the eclipse, I thought of you guys when I saw all the clear skies to the N&W.... did you get to see it, Rob? I woke up at 2:30 and waited until 3:30 but there wasn't even a little break in the clouds =\

!@#$% ocean ruins the eclipse for long island a solution to the sea level rise problem and to cloudy skies near the coast pump up 20% of ocean waters to the moon and mars We do not need 70% of this planet covered in water, it's way too much, especially with sea level rise. 50% land and 50% ocean is far better. Plus pumping the excess water to the moon and mars will get rid of this cloud pollution.