LibertyBell
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Thanks, technology gives us solutions to problems that seem to have none. I also love the development of laser tech to precisely target and fry these pests.
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Yes, I am thinking of the lag effect, the same kind we see between land and sea temperatures or between the shortest day of the year and the coldest temperatures, it takes awhile for the new pattern to set in. Do you see some kind of SSW aiding in the pattern change?
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Completely agreed and I would also add the mass death of pollinators (which we really need more than most people realize.)
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I blame these on the filthiness of humans (same with rats.) On Long Island, there are zero cockroaches, I have not seen a single cockroach in all the time I've been here. In Brooklyn they were all too common. Population density issues combined with humans dumping trash everywhere. I love the alternatives of laser pest killing either with drones automatically or by hand with tools that use concentrated beams of light to kill pests. I should say when I say pests I mean weeds. The UN (specifically a panel of scientists who researched this and wrote their conclusion for the UN) specifically has stated that we don't need chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers, both of which destroy the soil in the long term and kill off essential pollinators (organic soil farming which retains nutrients better is much more sustainable and much better for the soil than applying chemicals to it to artificially maintain it.) And then when we have excessive rains, these chemicals run off either into water supply or into bodies of water where they result in toxic algae blooms and massive die offs of sea life too.
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Better than most March events
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Thanks I was figuring 7-10 days at the beginning of the month for that reason.
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My favorite was actually the one that happened in early April, did you get anything from that?
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These are the same people who don't think there is anything wrong with pesticides, meanwhile they are circulating through our blood and killing off pollinators. And now we've found the carcinogen 1,4-dioxane in our drinking water.
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Mass extinction of other forms of life is most certainly happening and at a very rapid rate. We've already wiped out thousands of species.
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Yes, I don't buy a snowy March either. I could see the cold lasting into the first week of March if it has already been well established in the second half of February, but if we have to wait until March to see cooler weather, it will just be cool and rainy, which we've already had.
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The last time we had a double digit March snowfall here was March 1993 and that changed to rain after dropping 11 inches. It was an exceptional situation-- you need something like that to get big March snows for urban areas.
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it's why the 1950s were horrible for snowfall, March was the snowiest month that decade.
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March 2018 wasn't so impressive here....the last time we had a double digit snowfall in March here was in March 1993 and that changed to rain after 11 inches of snow. March isn't a winter month here because of the sun angle really hurting urban areas, it's early spring. My favorite storm in 2018 actually happened in early April
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I saw a total of 0.5 inch at Mt Pocono, I guess that's the most we can expect from this.
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measuring in mm now are we lol
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This is an interesting combo, blockier AND warmer. I guess this is what happens when the source region is warmer too.
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Thanks, Don, I wonder what the end of winter rankings would look like? Would 2001-02 catch up to 1931-32 for number 1?
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Not really that great for urban areas though. March 2015 was the last winter I would call really wintry here. When March is your snowiest month it means that the winter has been really bad.
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It's basically dejavu from the 80s and early 90s. Now we know that wasn't bad luck, it's simply something that seems to happen quite often in -PDO patterns because the margin for error is so small; we've been in a thread the needle pattern and it seems like Mother Nature is like a blind person trying to thread it lol. It really makes 1966-67 stick out for being an amazing winter, in spite of the -PDO pattern, we really racked up the snowfall that winter.
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I think it's reasonable to split the difference and if the colder back half of February idea does come to fruition then perhaps the cold will linger into the first week or 10 days of March. I don't think we can really hope for more than that.
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Looks like everything is coming together for a colder and perhaps snowy back half of February at least.
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bingo, and the amount of rainfall too
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What if we also add in the amount of rainfall and lack of any sunshine into the mix? Does it rank even "higher" on the misery index if we add those two factors Don?
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Looks like we are getting a SSW to help with the pattern change?
