LibertyBell

Yeah I'm really looking for one upstairs plus one for the basement (if there is a mold issue in my steam heating it likely started in the basement), plus reinforcing some of the insulation because when the wind blows, my doors slam shut lol. It gets really windy here (regardless of the season) and that always blows in whatever allergies are happening outside, so a double layer of protection seems like a good idea. I was using a space heater as a de facto dehumidifier in my bedroom haha..... probably not the best idea. But I would go to sleep with the steam heater aimed at my face to keep the mold away (it actually worked but I always woke up dehydrated and with a headache anyway even when the space heater was on an automatic setting to only turn on when my room temp fell below 75.)

Do you have dehumidifiers now? It's what was recommended for me, so I'm going to get a couple of them and see if they solve this issue. I think it may have gained a foothold in my house because it's been much worse the last couple of years than it was before. And sometimes it happens even when the weather is dry but my steam heat turns on, so that alarmed me. Winter when there's some sort of snow cover is always the best time of year for me, not only does everything look prettier, there's no insects coming inside and no allergies! Yay lol.

and I thought pollen allergies were bad (this is what I had when I was little) mold is a whole other level of evil.... winter was my only respite, no allergies between December and March, except so far for last winter and this winter (both were bad for mold). Here's the really funny thing and something to ponder.... the last couple of years the allergies actually went away in spring..... April through June was great.... when it wasn't raining much and it was really dry. The allergies came roaring back in July again when the big rains started. But as long as it doesn't rain and isn't all that humid, everything's fine. It can snow as much as it wants, snow doesn't bring on mold allergies either. But any kind of liquid precip-- be it drizzle, fog, rain, etc-- and especially if the pattern is stuck for a couple of days-- it gets really bad.

a lot of inside runner tracks perhaps with a prolonged +NAO-- which causes rain and mild for the coast followed by cold arctic shots followed by more rain and mild for the coast?

Yes and I'm afraid it's black mold, and here is the really weird thing, it stopped raining around 7 AM this morning and the sun came out for like an hour, but in that one hour, my allergies went away and have not come back all day. I started noticing this a few years ago, with the mold and it's happened almost every time we're in a long duration rainy or even just drizzly pattern, that the mold gives me really bad allergies. My sister has the same thing (with her its more about getting really bad headaches, with me its a stuffy nose and constricted throat-- although she's had the throat issue too.) She lives in the Poconos and it's been pretty bad there too, so this is a regionwide thing right now. YES MOLD HEADACHE-- THANK YOU-- THAT'S WHAT MY SISTER GETS-- AND WE DIDN'T PUT 2 AND 2 TOGETHER UNTIL WE REALIZED THAT HER MOLD HEADACHES AND MY BREATHING ISSUES HAPPENED ON THE SAME DAYS! Normally as soon as April gets here the allergies begin (except when we have a dry spring, like the last couple have been), this time around they've persisted much later than I can ever remember. I may have black mold, the other thing I noticed about it is when my steam heat turns on it sometimes causes an allergic attack (it doesn't happen every time though-- it's mostly if it turns on late at night-- around 3 or 4 am-- I'll wake up sneezing several times-- or that one time when I couldn't breathe for a few minutes.)

I remember several of those winters were much better both north and south of here, and NW of the city was a major mantra of that decade (Vet Day 1986 was typical) except for the major exception of February 1983. That was THE HECS of my childhood and nothing measured up to that huge storm until January 1996 happened. April 1982 also reached near mythic levels because of how late in the season it happened and just how cold it was. We might not see another April 1982 type snowstorm/blizzard in our lifetimes (even the April Fools Day snowstorm, which delivered more snow in New England but was a bust here didn't have the kind of cold that April 1982 had.)

is he the successor to JB?

ever think of vacationing in Bali?

trust me the invasive insects and black mold are far more deadly than the accidents and injuries from snow and ice.

dry anything definitely over flooding rains. People really need to rethink living near rivers anymore as they are now being forced out of their homes on a weekly basis.

That decade was excessively weird, so many el ninos in the 80s, you'd think they'd be snowier, but noooo.

I remember because 1986-87 was also an el nino but of a totally different character, it was snowier, even though the real heavy snows missed us just to the south, starting with the Vet Day 1986 snowstorm.

No the budding early has been happening for several years now and unfortunately it really damages flowering plants when they bud early and then the inevitable freeze comes-- and then they don't flower again when they're supposed to during the springtime. The issue with allergies that happen from mold because of excessive rainfall is horrible and can be deadly, I woke up in the middle of the night back in November when I couldn't breathe and it was the most terrifying feeling in the world. It's happened to others I know also, but it was the first time I personally experienced a constricted throat and man, that's nothing you ever want to feel in your life. We've had record rainfall for several months now, including our all time 24 hour rainfall at JFK at the end of September and it hasn't stopped raining since.

I'd very happy with dry of any kind, it's all this rain that really stinks and now people are being forced to leave their homes with the unprecedented levels of flooding we're having.

1987-88 is a weird exception to this rule. Was that a second year el nino?

funny not funny that you said the thing about ticks.... My sister has a pool at her house and a deer fell into it and drowned while she was away. Anyway in the month since that deer died, there has been a tick infestation at her property and she had to buy and use tick spray because in the month following that deer dying in her pool she found no less than 6 ticks on her. Finding 6 ticks would freak anyone out and she took to spraying her clothes with this chemical that causes a burning sensation on your skin. They were different kinds of ticks, a very small black tick and a larger tick that was probably a Lonestar tick. I've also been reading about both the brain eating amoeba and a skin eating bacteria spreading through the south.

for JFK though their seasonal snowfall is less than 25 right Don-- so being in the same general area, that could mean a quicker increase of extremely low snowfall totals?

when did we know in 2015-16 that this winter would not be a complete loss? was it just before the HECS happened or did we have an indication of a pattern change weeks before?

Nothing in December either?

Was that the most snow we ever got in a single storm after December and January were basically snowless? It would be interesting to see some stats on that!

It makes you wonder why people want to live near a river? Aren't there other problems associated with living near rivers too, more biting insects, etc?

I remember this applied to last winter too, we were either going to flip by January 20th or not at all

yup same as 01-02

Nothing good happened here in 72-73 lol

Do they ever think about damming up these rivers or is that a total no go? It's needed in NJ too