LibertyBell

sunrises have just started to get later too

so only the last 3 days of the month will be milder

lol no idea how JFK is warmer, is their *normal* colder to begin with Tony? what are the actual mean temperatures through the 11th?

wow 1980-81 had multiple below zero arctic outbreaks? I don't remember this one but I sure do remember Christmas morning 1980!

the way I could see the Deep South getting more snow than us is possibly because the oceans are warming much faster than the land is, so maybe being near the ocean will be bad for snow going forward and it would be better to be in Arkansas or Northern Georgia or in the Carolinas, regardless of latitude.

we have two really cold shots coming, this week and the week after.

vodka cold?

what about February 2015?

also this damned wind. the wind is what increases my fuel costs and makes me feel cold not the actual temperature.

Yeah and this is exactly why those guys should -NEVER- be allowed into the hall of fame and all their *records* need to be wiped from the history books.

it's not just about home runs but how his on base percentage spiked way high because no one wanted to pitch to him. He didn't have the talent of a Ken Griffey Jr. He was very good but not on the level of the greatest.

omg I knew him from before steroids, he was very good but not great. nowhere close to a .400 hitter Ken Griffey Junior was MUCH better (in all phases of the game.)

in my book any month that averages under 32.0 has to be considered cold, but it's nothing extreme. No lows in the single digits, so nothing out of the ordinary.

From what you've outlined, Walt, it sounds like more wet 1/19 and more white 1/21 for long island (at least the south shore?)

looks like our local airports were all around 0.5" too Don?

it affected some hitters more than others. I can guarantee you that at least 50% of Bonds home runs were because of it.

Yes and it's also a stretch to use that as the reason for this year when the Deep South is seeing historic snowfalls. In that way it's similar to 72-73 and 01-02

for NYC I think it's three 4" snowstorms a season, one 6" snowstorm a season and an 8" snowstorm every other season.

Doesn't that 2.5 in NE PA stick out lol? Although that 2.0 near it makes it more legit.

I doubt anyone at our latitude or north got more than 2.5 from this

Right this is how I remember it in the 80s. The Januarys averaged in the 20s and Februarys averaged near 40 lol. 1989-90 was like that too but displaced earlier by a month..... December was extremely cold and the warmth came in for January, February and March. I think Don mentioned that December 1989 was Central Park's coldest month with less than 3.0 inches of snow.... was the same the case for JFK, Chris? I remember that JFK had a little more snowfall than Central Park did that month because we benefitted from clippers passing south of us.

a couple of things about 1980s Januarys.... they were very cold and very dry. Februarys were much warmer. We had several subzero arctic outbreaks in the 1980s which we have lacked since then, beginning with Christmas Day 1980, January 1982, January 1984, January 1985 and who can forget the historically cold December 1989?

it's always a factor of time too, after so many years, the odds stack up and eventually it happens. The same thing with diseases caused by certain unhealthy food too (and it's usually more than 10%, more like 30-50%.) My sister's doctor just told her to quit drinking diet soda (which she has been drinking for 20+ years).... he told her it may be the reason she now has stage 3A kidney disease. He told her to quit both diet soda and advil for this reason. This famous 30 year study bears him out. https://www.kidney.org/news-stories/say-no-to-diet-soda

yup, the dry pattern had a few short breaks but never really went away.

I have a different question.... granted CC is making our snowfall more extreme (either a lot or not much).... but how is CC causing all this abnormal snowfall way south where it doesn't normally ever snow? We had another year in this decade where Texas was completely frozen and there was widespread snow in the Deep South too. It can't be that our snowfall is going down but the snowfall in the Deep South is going up?