LibertyBell

if anything we will reach 2.0 in short order, probably by 2030.

he's not that smart, his brain has been infested with pesticides

right, solar maximum is why so many are excited about the total solar eclipse next month, it's timed perfectly for some big solar storms.

hmm what kind of la nina was 2010-11?

2010-11 had great potential to beat 1995-96 in snowfall here but it basically stopped snowing after January lol. But the period from December 26th to January 26th had 2 20" snowstorms and a 10" snowstorm in between them.

it's actually calmed down here now.

it could be like several other la ninas where we had nice hot and dry summers followed by an active tropical season up here in September and October

let's hope we don't get the bugs that rain forests have

looks like both wettest and driest has gone up!

Poconos had a period of ice with this, up to 0.25" of ice in spots.

let's keep it to September and October I want a nice hot and dry summer like 1999

this reminds me a bit of that huge rainstorm near the end of September last year

if this brings a rainbow I'm all for it. why do you hate the sun so much? are you albino?

Same here, and we're getting a lot of these inside runners lately.

wasn't this a three day snowstorm? we don't get these anymore either

meanwhile accuweather is doing long range forecasts out to May 6th lol they have rain for the eclipse lol and sunny days both before and after that day (April 8th) https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york/10021/daily-weather-forecast/349727

This is pure fiction at this point, but accuweather has rain for the day of the eclipse lol. This long range forecast goes all the way out to May 6th! https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york/10021/daily-weather-forecast/349727 Sun 4/7 58° /41° 20% Mostly sunny Mon 4/8 59° /48° 55% Cloudy most of the time with a touch of rain 55% chance of rain is really high for 17 days away Tue 4/9 63° /49° 25% Times of clouds and sun and back to sunny on Tuesday 4/9 lol Wed 4/10 63° /39° 70% Periods of rain in the morning; otherwise, cloudy wow wednesday 4/10 has a 70% chance of rain, so it's even higher

Ice made it all the way down to the Poconos

this is absolutely crazy Don, how can this happen in March, with no tropical air around?

This is really interesting. In a sci fi series I'm watching aliens who want to eradicate humans from the planet and make it more suitable for them to live on, dig a chamber under Yellowstone and fill it with water, thus hastening the eruption of the supervolcano, and the added water in the chamber they've been digging for 80 years would make it so much worse.

why did this volcano have so much water vapor in it?

la ninas after el ninos are some of our snowiest seasons on record. It happened in both 95-96 and 10-11 I know some have been mediocre, but I like this combo.

weak la ninas can be great and sometimes even moderate ones are good-- we just need to get out of this rut of warm Decembers.

We had a 15" storm near and just south of Mt Pocono in early January and February was okay too. You wouldn't happen to have seasonal snowfall numbers from the area around Mt Pocono to Lake Harmony at about 2,000 feet elevation would you? Thanks!

It's not so much that all el ninos aren't alike (which is also true), but it's that enso is only like 20% of a component of our weather, regardless of how strong it is.