LibertyBell

How many months have we had at or above the +1.5C threshold?

we broken through the +1.5C threshold but it won't be recognized until we get a full year of this, so wait until the end of 2025 I guess to confirm it.

But do you feel the same way about weak el ninos vs strong el ninos? Just using deductive reasoning, we can surmise that weak phases are usually best because they do not interfere with the overall pattern as much and thus other factors (like nao state) are allowed to take over. With a strong el nino (1998 for example), you can have a -nao all you want, but the winter won't be snowy because enso overwhelms the entire pattern. The same should be the case for a strong la nina. It's also interesting that la ninas that come after el ninos are snowier, perhaps because the subtropical jet from the previous season's el nino is still actively supplying moisture for that snow?

wow, the sun was out here, maybe the sun will cause instability that will lead to sleet/snow?

When was our last freeze after April 10th.... 2014? I distinctly remember that snow we had on April 16, 2014. Also, it's strange that our last freeze in 2020 was in early March and yet we had snow in May 2020!

So late 1800s into mid 1900s snowfall was under measured by today’s standards. This is absolutely amazing because we were already averaging around 35" of snow per decade from the 1860s through the 1910s..... so this may actually have been over 40" And the decades before the 1860s were even snowier!

weak la ninas are our second snowiest ENSO state.

lol the pattern of stars actually looks like the liberty bell.

It definitely feels like winter today and everyone is going below freezing tonight.

Looks like the game tonight has been pushed back to during the day. It feels like winter today lol.

Did you notice this record-- higher than the hurricane of 1938!! and in 2010 they set a new heat record on this date (we all did lol). 1988 - High winds in the Middle Atlantic Coast Region gusted to 172 mph atop Grandfather Mountain NC. Twenty-nine cities in the southwest and north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Yankton SD with a reading of 91 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2010 - A temperature of 80 degrees is measured on Grandfather Mountain, NC, the warmest ever measured in April and three degrees short of the all-time record high for any month.

snow down to Houston is pretty amazing, perhaps Florida had it too?

wow in 1857 we had snow in every state on this date?? thats pretty amazing!!

Yes, esthetics aside playing in Pittsburgh and Detroit wasn't a good move lol.

1982 and 2010 were both such great years, good to see them decorate the top spots on the leaderboard!!

The sun comes back tomorrow, YAY enough of this stupid rain.

Unless they play opening day in a removable dome. But this year opening day was March 27th, this is ridiculous! Opening Day should be in the second week of April at the earliest. After April 10th! Look, it's often warmer in November than it is in March or early April, why are they so opposed to having the playoffs cover the first half of November at least?

I wonder if this is an early sign of an el nino for next winter? Any connection there?

Early April is too early for baseball let alone late March which is when baseball begins now.

I noticed the change in timing! Are the other two games going to have snow too (or was that forecast to happen at night?)

I was just going to post this! Why can't we get that here? If it's going to be cold it might as well snow!

anyone who wants to see snow just needs to watch the Yankees at Tigers game!!

shades of April 2003 (minus the snow of course).

Very interesting, I was just looking at the Providence data going back to December 1831. I wonder if we can use it as a proxy of NYC's snowiest winters since Central Park data only begins in 1869 and there are notations in the Pennsylvania Weather Book that both NYC and PHL received over 100 inches of snow in a season prior to that a few times. Ideally I would like to find records that go back all the way to 1780 since those were probably our snowiest and coldest seasons with a major volcanic eruption in Iceland in that time frame. George Washington's journals indicate there were more than a dozen blizzards of multiple feet snowfall in 1782-83 for example.

why do la ninas happen more frequently than el ninos and why do they last longer?