LibertyBell

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?

at least this winter was pretty dry (it would have been better with snow, we definitely were cold enough for snow.)

Yeah this year is way worse than the last 2 years have been.

Yes this year is bad, also there's no drought lol.

Thanks, I usually go by middle of month normals as a rough guide-- it's an easy way to remember what the normal temperature should be for the majority of the month-- here's how I remember it: January 30s February 40s March 50s April 60s May 70s June 80s July 90s August 80s September 70s October 60s November 50s December 40s

aren't the highs supposed to be in the 60s now though?

Yeah we don't have mud season here, at least I don't where I am.

most of us don't really like that lock lol, we've had more than enough wetness. more wetness = more bugs I've noticed far fewer bugs and mosquitos especially with nice dry heat

I'm trying to remember the drier springs with big heat, have we been warmer than 2002 also (realizing the heat in 2002 began a little later.)

I think around 34 here. I remember it was on the anniversary of the great May 9-10 1977 snowstorm.

We were warmer in 2010 and 2012 too I remember both springs were great. I am curious about April in the late 70s, how did we have so many 90 degrees in April back then between 1976 and 1978? The winters were much colder, but spring was warmer? I heard they had 8 inches of snow in the Texas Panhandle wow! Does the Texas Panhandle normally get more snow than we do?

I was in the Poconos for that, we had rain changing to snow Friday evening with 1-3 inches and another inch or so on Saturday with temps in the 20s (lows in the teens) and wind chills near 0 with almost constant snow squalls! And it warmed up in time for thunderstorms and hail on Monday!

Just for highs? It's weird because it doesn't feel all that warm. 2010 and 2012 I know were really warm, outside of those two years, I can't think of another warm spring in recent years. We seem to always have these -nao springs now, especially since 2002. I remember Larry did some research showing that -nao in spring and +nao in winter have become much more common.

It's why we really can't go by average temperatures, I prefer to use high temperatures for a true measure of warmth.

Tuesday and Wednesday will be okay with lots of sunshine and after the next cut off passes we should have a nice stretch of warm sunny weather after next Sunday.