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Not that big, and thin not fat like one of those evil monstrosities. See, thats one monster I wouldn't mind using pesticides to wipe out completely. Something like that deserves to go extinct.

Yes, front and back !!

The sun is fighting the clouds!

glue traps stop them right in their tracks (literally) how do they get inside? I got the glue traps originally to catch mice but the cats and this giant hawk that visits my back yard got rid of the mice and now the glue traps have a secondary function, they catch centipedes without me ever having to see them. A dead centipede looks a lot less scary (and smaller) than a live one!

We'll see, but currently none of our local forecasts have any 70s in the 7 day forecast. It might happen in the first week of April instead, everything seems to be delayed a bit.

Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out ways to keep these giant carpenter bees out that enter my house every Spring. I don't hurt them or anything. I just close the door and leave for an hour or two; when I come back, they're always gone. They must be smart enough to know how to leave on their own.

But this is normal in early Spring. Probably will not hit 70 at all for NYC or points east in DJFM.

the bugs at least are already here =\

ugh they are already here. I saw a giant wasp fly by rather sedately yesterday even in the high winds. Thought I was seeing things, but I saw the same giant wasp again today.....

It's going to be funny with no high of 70 or higher in March. Starting with April 1, bring on the 90s!

Thank goodness for that, I got a little worried after seeing Analog's forecast for no 70 until after April 15th. I can buy no 70 for March (for the city and points east), but it would be highly unusual not to get it in the first week or two of April.

and it's now cloudy here

I hate that. So not only do we have to worry about rising temperatures and rising sea levels, but we also have to worry about higher winds.

it's sunny today so it might go higher than forecast

1920 - A spectactular display of the Northern Lights was visible as far south as Bradenton FL, El Paso TX, and Fresno CA. At Detroit MI, the display was described so brilliant as to blot out all stars below first magnitude. (22nd-23rd) (The Weather Channel) omg -- this must have been absolutely amazing even better than last October here !! 1888: Chicago's morning low dips to one degree below zero, the latest sub-zero Fahrenheit reading in the city's history. This record still stands today. 1888 holds many of our March records ;-)

What about all these forecasts with a cool first half of april because of the SSW?

This is normal for early spring though, still no 70 for NYC or points east, only locations well inland will have that. Looks like we're in a colder pattern until the middle of April where the warmth will be capped off in the 60s and some mornings will be in the 30s (but still above freezing.)

It beat all our surge records including the Norfolk and Long Island hurricane and December 1992. December 1992 is still my top storm for combo of winds and rain and longevity, we've not had anything to match that combo since.

and then we would have had less winds and it would have been more like our other landfalling TCs.

Yes, it was already transitioning, but maybe that track would have caused more damage with much more rainfall? Delaware had around a foot of rainfall on the track it actually took so maybe that rainfall would have made it farther north?

Yes, I think it was one of our most western hurricane landfalls, it actually almost touched the north central Jersey coast before it started to recurve. It made landfall close to where Belle made landfall in 1976 I believe.

and a lot more heavy rain in Gloria! Do you guys remember the original Euro track for Sandy? It was supposed to take it into Belmar, I think, near NYC or just west of NYC on a more northerly track? I've wondered if that would have made the impacts from Sandy even worse if that original Euro track verified-- more rain of course, but maybe higher winds too?

Yes and overall warmer temps all over the Atlantic Basin with strong Bermuda high pressure might actually direct more storms into the Gulf and Florida as we've been seeing, although in recent years we've seen the Bermuda high displaced farther north, which would increase the chances of one coming up this way. I thought that Gloria was moving close to 70 mph at our latitude but perhaps that was wrong. I do remember the eye really opened up at our latitude and we never got a backside of the hurricane except for some gusty winds with partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. But it was extremely rainy that morning and of course schools were closed. We never closed schools for snow but we did for Gloria (completely understandable.) I saw that the damage was much worse out over Suffolk County. Lots of trees down! Our damage was mostly flooding from the heavy rains.

I wonder how late the cherry blossoms will be? And the winter was better down in DC too....

Army Corps of Engineers has projected that our waters can support up to a 145 mph sustained Cat 4.