LibertyBell

Yes, it's really becoming like the Gulf coast around here. And a huge increase in nuisance bugs and allergies.

but sun over rain any day unless it's a drought

Maybe something happened to make those things more common back then and whatever was causing it lasted for several years before the pattern flipped? It basically existed from 1944 to 1960. longer heatwaves, more 100 degree temps, more northeast tropical activity, stronger severe weather outbreaks.

why do you love this weather? you don't like to go to the beach huh? Or gardening either?

But would you say that the chances of NYC reaching 10" by the end of the season is at least 30% Don?

I think you mean Feb 6, 2010..... we got 1.5" of snow here near JFK but it should have been a lot more! Toms River got 20"! In January there was another storm that gave them 6" but we got nothing but some clouds in that one.

the 50s were an amazing time, I wonder what was going on then that no matter how many or few total TCs there were, there were always multiple ones (including majors) hitting the NE coast. the heatwaves during the 50s were also very long and we had multiple 100+ degree long heatwaves which we don't see anymore-- from June through September! Worcester even got hit with an F5 tornado during one of those extremely hot years!

Yes I love the site, but sometimes I like to save the data and graph it later or even just see the numbers change every hour as the data is updated

Looks like you guys are getting a lot of weenies, sometimes I wonder why people who get 5 posted dont also get a 5 weenie limit LOL

No one likes rain unless it's a drought, no matter the time of year It should only ever AT MOST rain once a week.

I heard the Bronx might have had up to 3 inches but zero here on the south shore and they were still calling for 6-8 inches for everyone while it was raining lol. Just like in February 1989 they were still calling for 6-8 inches when it was eminently clear that would be a virga storm for us and ACY got close to 20 inches of snow.

Yes I loved that late February 2008 event it was 6-8 inches here on the south shore and it's when the waters are coldest too.

This is interesting, I've always thought that controlling H20 was key to fighting climate change.

It's always low, and we seem to be out of the era that get major east coast hurricanes coming this far north, I'd expect yet another gulf coast and florida hurricane season. We're also very tucked in so any hurricanes making it this far north are likely to hit Nova Scotia instead.

Thanks, so 70,000 years there was a smaller Yellowstone eruption? I wonder if that had any effect on the climate back then? Wow, Iwo Jima sounds like it's very capable of creating a repeat of the Christmas 2004 Tsunami.

How does the dewpoint get so low when they are surrounded by water on all sides lol

what was the smallest Don? one thing I want to understand is how is this winter is supposedly colder than last winter when we had two extreme single digit arctic shots last winter and this winter is setting all sorts of high min records? see this is why I dont trust average temperatures, this winter has been tangibly warmer than last winter, regardless of what the so-called "averages" say.

So amazing, even though it was really bad. I guess it could happen again since it also seems to have happened in January 2008 lol

is there a way to download the data onto a spreadsheet and keep it updated without visiting the site using a program that downloads the data directly?

what caused this huge bust I wonder and could it happen like that again if that storm happened in this era? I remember hearing thunder and seeing lightning and seeing heavy rain and then I knew we were done lol The complete reverse bust of February 1989 We actually had a bust like that again in January 2008.

wow speaking of which I wanted to ask you about Yellowstone. So there's this rather funny scifi series called Resident Alien in which the good alien is trying to stop the bad aliens from funneling a large quantity of water into the Yellowstone caldera, he said they are trying to destroy all life on the planet by causing it to erupt. But then he also said that even if he stopped them that Yellowstone could erupt "at any time" because it erupts on average every 600,000 years and it's been 643,000 years since its last eruption. He said the bad aliens were hastening its eruption and because of them it could erupt within one year but even if he was able to stop them it could erupt anyway since it was "due"-- and in his crazy sense of humor he thought it was funny if he stopped them but it erupted anyway. Anyway that part isn't true-- that Yellowstone is "overdue" to erupt?

It was annoying because DC got a lot more snow than us, like the previous February when Atlantic City had a 19 inch snowstorm and 0 here.

2018 too March through early April was amazing.

1 inch snow in early April 1990 too

Maybe one day we can automate snowfall measurements? We could use a laser light system to automatically measure the maximum depth of snowfall at any point during a storm.