LibertyBell

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.

Talk about records-- on this date in March 1990 it was 85 degrees, on this day in March 1888 it was only 6 degrees ! That 6 might be the March monthly record set right after the big blizzard. The March 1990 temperature of 85 is close to the monthly record, I think it hit 88 the next day?

a lot of brownstones in Brooklyn have solar panels on their roofs from what I have read and even make money from it by selling excess power to their neighbors.

Talk about records-- on this date in March 1990 it was 85 degrees, on this day in March 1888 it was only 6 degrees ! That 6 might be the March monthly record set right after the big blizzard. The March 1990 temperature of 85 is close to the monthly record, I think it hit 88 the next day?

Today turned out much sunnier than anyone thought. We had a small period of clouds around noon but both before and after has been mostly clear, even last night. The clouds have been going to our north and our south but we're the clear part of the sandwich lol.

Con Edison is horrible, I heard they were trying to increase rates yet again. Highway robbery....

that predominant west wind, I think this will continue through the summer with some small breaks.

the forecast is for breaks in the clouds over NYC and western long island just in time for the eclipse even better inland the trend is our friend here, all week we've had more sun than forecast

Chris, something else I remember about that April heatwave is that they were haze free and one of the bluest skies I have EVER seen. This is also from that month.

When we had that really hot summer in 2002 (JFK had one of its highest number of 90 degree days-- their three top summers for them were 1983, 2002 and 2010 if I remember correctly), had the area recovered enough from the earlier drought? I do remember a lot of very yellow lawns in the summer of 2002. I actually have a couple of images of my lawn saved from that summer lol.