LibertyBell

Don if you get a chance, please do the 1-30 comparisons of both months after the 30th splits come out. It would also be interesting to see if that month had every day above normal right up to the 31st.

and that was such a cool month too lol The only other ones I can think of were October 2005 and August 2011.... both were so rainy! And August 2011 after that extreme scorcher of a July with one of the hottest days ever seen in these parts.

Can't say Dublin or London since it snows there too lol.

How much though? I didn't see an arctic shot coming in on the "last day" of the month in 1932 Do you have access to the high low split of that day, thanks in advance if you do. Keep in mind I believe that day will be near normal as the real cold air doesn't look to come in until Tuesday night.

I like it too and it preserves religious sabbaths which the other ones didn't. From what I read about the other ones, the UN considered adopting them back in the 50s but the US was the one who always objected because of strong opposition (to the point of threatening to remove the organization's tax exempt status-- oh the irony, since religious organizations get carte blanche on that lol) of religious leaders who wanted their sabbath to remain on the same day every week (and the last one is the only one that preserves that-- since it adds an entire leap week every 7 years or so rather than a day or two at the end of the year that are considered holidays and not assigned to any day of the week.)

I remember we had snow encrusted daffodils in April 2003. It didn't look like the snow damaged them at all and they looked pretty with some snow on them.

This calendar might be the least disruptive and comes closest to the one I came up with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanke–Henry_Permanent_Calendar It preserves 7 day weeks, anniversaries, holidays, etc. While many calendar reforms aim to make the calendar more accurate, the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar focuses on making the calendar perennial, so that every date falls on the same day of the week, year after year.[4] The familiar drift of weekdays concerning dates results from the fact that the number of days in a physical year (one full orbit of Earth around the Sun, approximately 365.24 days) is not a multiple of seven. By reducing common years to 364 days (52 weeks), and adding an extra week every five or six years, the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar eliminates weekday drift and synchronizes the calendar year with the seasonal change as the Earth circles the Sun. The leap week known as "Extra", occurs every year that either begins (dominical letters D, DC) or ends (D, ED) in a Thursday on the corresponding Gregorian calendar, and falls between the end of December and the beginning of January.[4] Thus, each year always begins between December 29 and January 4 in the Gregorian calendar. This is effectively the same rule as in ISO week dates. Under the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar January, February, April, May, July, August, October, and November have thirty days, while March, June, September, and December have thirty-one so that each quarter contains two 30-day months followed by one month of 31 days (30:30:31). While the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar changes the length of the months, the week and days remain the same.[5]

Wow I worked outside today and it never got cloudy here at all, and hit 55 around 2 PM.

I thought it was today?

lmao I've been doing that too-- this is awesome a lot better than looking for fictitious snowstorms that will probably not happen =\

Apparently this goes back to the ancient Romans...yet another "tradition" from a dead ancient culture we need to get rid of. I also like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar The World Calendar is a 12-month, perennial calendar with equal quarters.[1] Each quarter begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday. The quarters are equal: each has exactly 91 days, 13 weeks, or 3 months. The three months in each quarter have 31, 30, and 30 days respectively. Each quarter begins with the 31-day months of January, April, July, or October. The World Calendar also has the following two additional days to maintain the same new year days as the Gregorian calendar. Worldsday The last day of the year following Saturday 30 December. This additional day is dated "W" and named Worldsday, a year-end world holiday. It is followed by Sunday, 1 January in the new year. Leapyear Day This day is similarly added at the end of the second quarter in leap years. It is also dated "W" and named Leapyear Day. It is followed by Sunday, 1 July within the same year. The World Calendar treats Worldsday and Leapyear Day as a 24-hour waiting period before resuming the calendar again. These off-calendar days, also known as "intercalary days", are not assigned weekday designations. They are intended to be treated as holidays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar I like this calendar, it's well balanced....13 months of 28 days each. So as balanced as a calendar can get... of course you have to add an extra day in the last month to get to 365 days (and two extra days in the last month for leap years.) The funny thing is that every month would have a Friday in the 13th....that would sure make things interesting!

Exactly! Especially since January seems to suck now!

That would be sad....I saw the locals have us hitting 40 on Tuesday and the cold air doesn't really drive in until Tuesday night. For example, Tuesday morning is still in the mid 30s and above freezing. I know you know my position on the 31st day....months shouldn't have them, it fouls up the data record because months can't be compared mathematically to each other if some have more days than others. And for some unexplained reason February only has 28 days which really fouls up comparisons to other months. I would give February 30 days and then the first four months of the year would all have 30 days, which would make it a more level playing field at least.

Did he blow a forecast or something? I could see the people in the NE forum doing that back in the 1700s....or even today lol

Depends on what kind of models you were checking out lmao

la ninas after el ninos are our snowiest and coldest winters, the same thing happened in 10-11 too

First of three straight 50+ days. It got to 55 here. Hopefully we build enough of an advantage over 1932 to insure against the closer to average temps on Tuesday. (It will still average above normal because of overnight lows.)

Hopefully we can beat 1932, I dont want this to be another one of those months where a fake 31st day keeps us from the record.

it's been sunny all day today though

15-16 was much like 82-83, just warmer (except for that memorable VD though.)

Yeah we were close to normal because of that one storm, but people in the city and west of there had snowfall in the teens. That was an annoying winter because it had the potential to be more.

I think it'll be okay, we'll reach 40 during the day and the real cold air probably won't come in until Tuesday night. The 31st of any month is "fake" anyway lol.

Yeah probably next year or the year after.... Fits right in with our boom or bust new climate.

Since we shift normals every 30 years, I think the absolute temperature will probably either remain steady or slowly rise, but it may change relative to the current "normals" This will have (already has) had dramatic impacts on sea life.