it's difficult to objectively state what's *warmer* vs *colder* when the so-called averages change every 10 years. I think we should just go by the entire climatological record rather than just 30 year slices of it-- there's no scientific reason to choose 30 as the number of years to use to calculate the average.
I think it's useful to mention that we haven't had a single noreaster in at least a year (rain or snow), so it's going to be a real shock to many people if/when it does happen.
Their summer temperature issues are a problem too. They should keep all temperature and snowfall measurements at LGA as the standard. Our airports have at least a 60 year climate record history, it's plenty long enough. Plus all airport climate records should be used as the standard for consistency. It's what they do in other cities.
That bottom inch is the hardest to melt especially with it becoming more dense with time. Sunlight doesn't really melt it, higher humidity would though. Cold and sunny will keep snow around even if the temp is a little above freezing.
it might be warmer here, but it definitely isn't rainy-- more like warmer and drier here than most other parts of the sub.
we do radiate better than northern Queens does though.
But we did swing back to colder and snowier again in March and even early April in 2018, and that often happens in a la nina too. And even during that milder February (it got close to 70!) we had a nice moderate snow event around Valentine's Day.
the orbits of the planets are ellipses it's true, but the eccentricity is very low, so all their orbits are close to circular.
also, the earth is closest to the sun in January (91 million miles) and farthest from the sun in July (95 million miles.)
right you can have a colder winter with very little snow, this happened a lot during the 80s...another question is even if the pattern breaks towards the latter third of January and February ends up milder, could there be a return to colder/snowier weather in March as has been the case with quite a few la ninas?
Our cold spells seem to be much shorter than they used to be (but the same goes for our heat waves, 3-4 day heatwaves at most, longer ones seem to have become rare.)