LibertyBell

that would be a bigger bust than the snowfall lol

wow NYC doesn't usually radiate this well. Must be the snowcover

your dog was wearing shorts? that does sound interesting!

it's useless if it changes to rain and all the snow gets washed away

below zero in the Poconos!

On top of all this Arctic sea ice is no longer a carbon sink

But we did swing back to colder and snowier again in March and even early April in 2018, and that often happens in a la nina too. And even during that milder February (it got close to 70!) we had a nice moderate snow event around Valentine's Day.

the orbits of the planets are ellipses it's true, but the eccentricity is very low, so all their orbits are close to circular. also, the earth is closest to the sun in January (91 million miles) and farthest from the sun in July (95 million miles.)

lows for us at the airports and city

and teens back this way Don?

day time snow which would be nice for Christmas Eve

might go below zero at KFOK I wonder what the earliest is that's ever happened ?

right you can have a colder winter with very little snow, this happened a lot during the 80s...another question is even if the pattern breaks towards the latter third of January and February ends up milder, could there be a return to colder/snowier weather in March as has been the case with quite a few la ninas?

Our cold spells seem to be much shorter than they used to be (but the same goes for our heat waves, 3-4 day heatwaves at most, longer ones seem to have become rare.)

Yep it reminds me of what we had in 93, 95, etc.

I think that was the last time we were below 5? I can't remember any time since then that it happened.

I thought normal for late December was in the 40s lol

I thought New England started north of I-80 ;-)

wow so 20:1 or higher, NYC's totals are definitely an outlier there....

Don what were the final liquid equivalents for the three local airports plus the Park? Thanks!

Interesting Roger, so there's been no below 20 temps before November 15th? Looks like 1987 was the only other year in this list in my lifetime, the same year we had the Veteran's Day snowstorm? Surprised that 1976 isn't on this list since it was such a cold fall and early winter. Nevermind I just saw that 1976 made the list on the final day.

1966-67 was an absolutely amazing winter, starting with that big Christmas snowstorm. Don't see anything like that happening this winter, the only real resemblance is that 1966 was a drier than normal year and was also transitioning from an el nino to a la nina (or was it cold neutral?) if I remember correctly. That 37.4 is considered 1.7 below normal for December is absolutely wild Don..... I remember when our December normal was around 36 degrees. Does normal or average even mean anything anymore? Also wild Don, before this storm the NYC two year snowfall was under 10 inches?

Same reason they don't trim the vegetation to have more accurate summer temps. Laziness.

Wild Don, is this a world record for any city for one year? 124 daily records!

Lost in all this is that Phoenix has had a truly WILD year. Set records for consecutive record number of 100+ days as well as highest average monthly and seasonal temperatures. October was pretty wild for all of us because a large part of the country had zero or nearly zero rainfall that month.