LibertyBell

No there's multiple golf courses in this area, yes there's only one in Oceanside, but there's another one next town over, in East Rockaway. https://longislandgolf.com/bay park golf course.html the one in Oceanside https://www.thegolfclubatmiddlebay.com another one lol (jk that's Oceanside, CA lol ;-) https://playoceansidegolf.com I'm halfway between the (first) two, it's a 15 min drive going from one to the other.

Hey Chris, I've always been interested in the number of 20 inch snowstorms each city on the east coast has had-- has Boston had the most or Baltimore? I think it's one or the other. Also doesn't JFK, LGA or EWR or all of them have more 20 inch snowstorms than NYC does? I know that February 1961 and February 1969 were both at or above 20" at JFK. February 1983 was also at or over 20" at the airports. Maybe NYC edges them out because of their longer period of record but I remember several snowstorms where the airports hit 20" and the Park did not. Offhand here are the ones I remember for JFK..... Feb 1961, Feb 1969, Feb 1983, Jan 1996, Feb 2003, Jan 2016

if it doesn't snow cold serves ZERO purpose except increasing heating bills. I will say I don't mind cool weather as long as it's bright and sunny and dry.....that's perfectly fine

I dont see the connection between above normal precip and heat, usually it's the opposite.

I just saw a forecast from the CPC on ABC7 that showed the first week of April being much above normal (well, the period from April 5-11). Looks like trough west coast ridge east coast, and a big ridge at that.

I suspect that's the case with many of us, since the definition of the spectrum was widened, I believe it may comprise a sizeable minority of people.

I always knew you were a surfing dude! You give off that vibe. I know a lot of them and surfing people are THE BEST people! East coast, west coast, Hawaii, doesn't matter.

Looks like Norway will be 100% ev by 2030 too

how did you guys do in 2012-13?

Chicago police threatening to go on strike unless Vallas wins is proof of that...FBI did the same thing when Clinton wanted to give clemency to Peltier, who is -still- unjustly imprisoned (going on 46 years now)

Yes they function the best.

that may portend to some good fortune, I wouldn't mind something simular to 2012-13 for neutral or 2002-03 for el nino or a mix of those two for that matter. I liked the preceding summers too. I know you don't do summer forecasts, but would you say a hot/dry summer is more likely, along the lines of either 2012 or 2002, Ray?

I wonder if we were in a stronger blocking regime back then, we didn't have that kind of blocking in the late 80s or late 90s/beginning of 2000s.

neutrals after la nina are some of our worst winters....1989-90, 2001-02, etc.

and dont forget the paper on the great January 2016 blizzard that gave us our first 30+ inch blizzard with true blizzard conditions for 12 hours straight!

Bud Selig should never have been allowed to be commish, the guy sucked. Golf is awesome, I live between two courses lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Democracy Index, the US ranks as a "flawed democracy" at number 30 1 Norway Full democracy 9.81 0.06 10.00 9.64 10.00 10.00 9.41 2 New Zealand Full democracy 9.61 0.14 10.00 9.29 10.00 8.75 10.00 3 2 Iceland Full democracy 9.52 0.34 10.00 9.64 8.89 9.38 9.71 4 Sweden Full democracy 9.39 0.13 9.58 9.64 8.33 10.00 9.41 5 2 Finland Full democracy 9.29 0.02 10.00 9.64 8.33 8.75 9.71 6 Denmark Full democracy 9.28 0.19 10.00 9.29 8.33 9.38 9.41 7 2 Switzerland Full democracy 9.14 0.24 9.58 9.29 8.33 9.38 9.12 8 1 Ireland Full democracy 9.13 0.13 10.00 8.21 8.33 10.00 9.12 9 2 Netherlands Full democracy 9.00 0.12 9.58 8.93 8.33 8.75 9.41 Flawed democracies 25 4 Czech Republic Flawed democracy 7.97 0.23 9.58 6.43 7.22 7.50 9.12 9 Greece Flawed democracy 7.97 0.41 10.00 7.14 6.67 7.50 8.53 27 Estonia Flawed democracy 7.96 0.12 9.58 7.86 6.67 6.88 8.82 28 Portugal Flawed democracy 7.95 0.13 9.58 7.50 6.67 6.88 9.12 29 6 Israel Flawed democracy 7.93 0.04 9.58 7.86 9.44 6.88 5.88 30 4 United States Flawed democracy 7.85 9.17 6.43 8.89 6.25 8.53 31 4 Slovenia Flawed democracy 7.75 0.21 9.58 7.14 7.22 6.25 8.53 32 2 Botswana Flawed democracy 7.73 9.17 6.79 6.67 7.50 8.53 33 Malta Flawed democracy 7.70 0.13 9.17 7.14 5.56 8.13 8.53 34 3 Italy Flawed democracy 7.69 0.01 9.58 6.79 7.22 7.50 7.35

Happiness index scores tell the tale, the big boys and girls at the front of the line....these nations also handled covid the best, have the highest democracy index scores, etc. https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/happiness/ It's like clockwork lol Finland 7.82 1 2013 - 2021 Denmark 7.64 2 2013 - 2021 Iceland 7.56 3 2013 - 2021 Switzerland 7.51 4 2013 - 2021 Netherlands 7.41 5 2013 - 2021 Luxembourg 7.4 6 2013 - 2021 Sweden 7.38 7 2013 - 2021 Norway 7.37 8 2013 - 2021 Countries Happiness index, 2021 Global rank Available data Finland 7.82 1 2013 - 2021 Denmark 7.64 2 2013 - 2021 Iceland 7.56 3 2013 - 2021 Switzerland 7.51 4 2013 - 2021 Netherlands 7.41 5 2013 - 2021 Luxembourg 7.4 6 2013 - 2021 Sweden 7.38 7 2013 - 2021 Norway 7.37 8 2013 - 2021 Israel 7.36 9 2013 - 2021 New Zealand 7.2 10 2013 - 2021 Australia 7.16 11 2013 - 2021 Austria 7.16 12 2013 - 2021 Ireland 7.04 13 2013 - 2021 Canada 7.03 14 2013 - 2021 Germany 7.03 15 2013 - 2021 USA 6.98 16 2013 - 2021 UK 6.94 17 2013 - 2021 Czechia 6.92 18 2013 - 2021 Belgium 6.8 19 2013 - 2021 France 6.69 20 2013 - 2021

The rich should be taxed at like 90 percent on both wealth and income. They get away with paying zilch. Nordic countries are far better off and their "happiness index" high scores show it, as well as they get a lot more for their money than we do. Finland ranks highest on a lot of metrics, like social mobility and lack of income disparity and I believe they also have UBI (universal basic income) which we have been testing out in parts of NY and NJ.

Yes these hidden taxes and subsidies (like subsidies to big pharma and the fossil fuel cartels) really need to go.

this new schedule is so weird lol, I hope we don't have any of these games with NL teams in September during the pennant race.

dessert for breakfast sounds absolutely awesome!

thats opening day....the snow season is over, we need to move on (to warm and dry weather hopefully)

So you're saying if these countries paid their fair share then the burden could be more equally distributed. I still think we could have the same social programs they do (if the burden was equally shared), since there is outlandish overspending by the defense sector that doesn't need to occur.