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LibertyBell

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  1. The sunny, cold weather is wonderful, however we can do without these winds.
  2. The high winds really sucked.
  3. Yeah, this is exactly what we talked about awhile back--- geoengineering is being talked about much more often than anyone thought it would be just a decade ago. The only real fact we can say right now is the +1.5C of warming over the past 12 months, we don't know if it was a temporary blip because of the volcano, el nino, or some combo of the two (plus the solar max we're now hitting) and if it's going to get worse right away or plateau for a bit. About 40% of the warming we've seen has no explanation.
  4. This is something I've wondered and talked about a lot.... despite the spike in TCs with the latest +AMO period, we haven't seen east coast TCs as strong or as many as we did back in the 1930s-1950s warm AMO period. I wonder why? Most of the bigger storms seem to be concentrated in the GOM. When was the last time we had a Cat 3 hit anywhere from Cape Hatteras on north?
  5. I don't like the term "atmospheric river" and the media throws it around a lot. It might be a scientific term, but it's more than a little sensationalistic.
  6. I take it you dont have a lot of hope for the projected event around the 24th do you?
  7. even that one hit was sort of a peewee hit with around 4 inches in the city and immediate surrounding area lol.
  8. Not bad at all! Might have been our biggest Valentine's Day snowstorm at least of this century. Ed, you wouldn't happen to have any totals from the 2/14/1899 snowstorm for our area would you?
  9. Don't worry, I have your back.
  10. The zealots on the denier side are MUCH worse. But without getting too political, this should be added, we won't see any needed reforms to the system until we kick the fossil fuel cartel lobbyists out of the system, just like when we kicked the tobacco cartel lobbyists out of the system.
  11. All of those were nothing more than guesses by anyone. One thing we do know as a fact though, we've hit +1.5C of warming over 12 months and a lot sooner than anyone ever expected.
  12. I wouldn't call anyone in this forum a "climate specialist" they are all just giving their guesses. Here's a fact though-- we've hit +1.5C of warming over the last 12 months and faster than we thought we would. Can't argue with facts. Let's see where we go from here.
  13. are rapid pattern shifts also connected to much faster moving storms? By the way the notable exception to all this was our stuck pattern with the omega block when we were cloudy for a week straight.
  14. 4:1 to 6:1 when you went inland it was more like 8:1
  15. it could also be a split flow and leave us high and dry in between correct?
  16. I mean, his name is "snowman"-- maybe he needs a "boost"?
  17. I still remember when you were so excited about January 2016. That was our last --true-- great set up for snow. The ones since have been more borderline. They've had temp issues or the storm has been moving too quickly or we were on the edge.
  18. at least we're getting to the time of year now where it's more likely to mean warm and sunny rather than just dreary and rainy, I'm remembering some amazing March weather like March 1990
  19. It seems like we're in a pattern of winters where the farther you are from the Atlantic, the better.
  20. Wow, this is absolutely amazing, thanks Tony! It's weird seeing 1935-36 in the list of coldest winters and coldest winter months considering how mild and snowless the 1930s generally were, if anything I would have thought 1933-34 would have the coldest winter and coldest month of that decade because of how extreme February 1934 was!
  21. It wasn't a fluke because back then we had much better blocking and we also had a couple of nice snowfalls in February and went below zero on Valentine's Day
  22. Wow, I didn't know Valentine's Day is the anniversary of the great 1899 BLIZZARD! Did the one in 1940 also affect our area? And today is the 8 year anniversary of the last time NYC went below zero! 1899 - A great blizzard struck the eastern U.S. Washington D.C. received 20.5 inches of snow to bring their total snow depth to nearly three feet. The storm produced 36 inches of snow at Cape May NJ. (David Ludlum) 1940 - A "Saint Valentine's Day Blizzard" hit the northeastern U.S. Up to a foot and a half of snow blanketed southern New England, and whole gales accompanied the heavy snow stranding many in downtown Boston. (David Ludlum) 1940: A St. Valentine's Day Blizzard blankets New England with up to 18 inches of snow. Gale force winds associated with the storm strand many in downtown Boston.
  23. and I think the elevation helps keep snow cover intact longer too.
  24. It's basically either a KU or bust winter, nothing in between anymore.
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