LibertyBell

some of those winters actually had 100 inches of snowfall and continuous snowcover from November to March in both Philly and NYC!!

Yes this is why you actually need westerly flow to get some of our hottest waters. It's a complex process but from what I read you first need westerly flow with a long duration extreme heat wave followed by southerly onshore flow. The westerly flow heats up the far offshore waters (since no upwelling happens there) and then the later onshore flow brings that water closer to shore. That's why 2011 held our previous record for warmest waters. We first had the record extreme triple digit heatwave with westerly flow, followed later by onshore flow.

Thats not a continuous record from 1843 to today though is it? Do they have snowfall records too?

Most of the area was extremely rural back then. Definitely zero cars. It really makes the historic summer of 1896 in which 1,500 people died stand out.

Most of the area was extremely rural back then. Definitely zero cars. It really makes the historic summer of 1896 in which 1,500 people died stand out.

1936, 1993 and 2010 the truly endless summers.... 2010: The 105 °F recorded at the Richmond International Airport today ties the highest maximum temperature ever recorded in July in Richmond. The high of 105 °F and low of 79 °F today yields a daily average temp of 92.0 °F which breaks the all-time daily mean temp of 91.5. Thus making today the hottest day ever recorded in the past 113 years for Richmond. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) This highest temperature ever recorded for July of 105 °F has occurred on two other dates. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) DCA soared to a record 102 °F on the 7th and 101 °F on the 24th. BWI recorded record high temperatures on 4 days: 6th (105 °F), 7th (101 °F), 24th (101 °F) and 25th (100 °F) BWI had on 5 days above 100 °F making the most on record. At or above 90 °F on 44 days in 2010 at DCA, most number of days through July on record. Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 1993: A severe thunderstorm struck southern Hyde County, SD including the city of Highmore, with winds in excess of 60 mph and heavy rains of 2 to 4 inches. Near Stephan, an estimated 4 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes causing flood damage around a bridge. 3 to 9 inches of rain caused widespread flash flooding and flood damage to Day, Roberts, and southeastern Marshall Counties. A state of emergency was declared in Sisseton. The heavy rains overwhelmed a small creek that flows through Sisseton, swelling it to three blocks wide and up to 5 feet deep. Flood damage occurred to 70% of all buildings in Sisseton, including 100 homes. Roads and bridge damage was also extensive in Roberts, Day, and Marshall Counties with about 50 roads and bridges in Day County damaged by the flooding.HR> The line of thunderstorms exploded over southeast Nebraska then advanced into Iowa at nearly 60 mph. An amazing two inches of rain fell in 30 minutes at Council Bluffs. Winds of 70 mph or greater were widespread across western Iowa. 75 mph winds also struck southeast of Treynor. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1931: Searing heat prevailed in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Many locations saw highs of 110 °F or better from the 21st through the 26th. Highs on this date reached 114 °F at Bakersfield, 113 °F at Hanford, 112 °F at Madera and 111 °F Wasco. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1934: A terrible heat wave settled over much of the Midwest. South Bend, IN and Chicago, IL set their all-time high temperature records of 109 °F and 105 °F respectively. Lansing, MI equaled their all-time high temperature of 102°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1936 - A record all time Kansas state high temperature set just 6 days earlier was tied in the town of Alton, located in Osborne County. (US National Weather Service Wichita) 1936: The state maximum temperature record for Kansas was equaled today at Alton, Kansas which was 121 °F. The state maximum temperature record for Nebraska was also equaled today at Minden, Nebraska which was 118 °F. (Ref. Lowest and Highest Temperatures for the 50 States)

But they have continuous records going back to 1843 or just for a smaller time set (like from the 1840s to the 1860s)?

all Central Park records need to be put in a museum and do not update them anymore. With all the shit government is doing these days, why can't they overrule the Conservancy bring a bunch of chain saws and chop down the trees? You know if they cared they could.

Oh nice, you know how much I love spelling bees (I won trophies in those starting in 3rd grade and my last one was in 8th grade.) What's a geography bee like? Do you have to spell geography place names or is it like the game Geography where you have to name a place that starts with the same letter the previous place someone said ended with? I love that game too-- I played it a lot in my middle school years (7th and 8th grade.)

That absolutely sucks and reminds me of February 2006 when the city had over 2 feet of snow and I had 13 inches lol, it must have been the same thing. What everyone thought was an HECS I thought was a run of the mill midwinter snowstorm. What made it even worse was that was basically the only snowstorm of the entire winter for my area.

08-09 was a much better winter than the previous two and it kicked off our snowier pattern. We had our first snowy noreaster in like 3 years on March 1, 2009.

March 2014 was very bad here, maybe better by you because you're south of us and there was a lot of suppression that winter. 2014-15 finished very strong but December - January 20th was mild and basically snowless.

it always seems to be like that, the part of December that's snowy being the early part and a thaw later in the month and then winter ramps up again in January. in 2013-14 winter was over here after February, we didn't get anything of significance in March and especially not April. 2014-2015 for what it's worth was a far superior winter here with a very snowy January-February-March (but not December.)

That just makes for a boring summer, I'm glad we got the historic heat in late June, otherwise this summer would be VERY mediocre.

I'm glad you remember it as well as I do, Ray. I feel like the younger kids won't remember that kind of winter....

It's probably not going to be all hot all the time either. Saturday looks cooler and drier now with the cold front making it down to Baltimore. Sunday looks wet. The hot days are really just Friday and Tuesday.

For the nation as a whole there seems to be an 11 year cycle-- 1933, 1944, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1988, 1999, 2010, 2010, 2021, the next one would be 2032. Other years around those years are very hot too, it's just that the above are the hottest of their era.

2010 had our hottest summer here

hydrothermal vents need to be protected at all costs, that is where life on this planet began and is the closest to alien life that we have on this planet.

Two of our hotter summers were 1933 and 1936, so I find that really interesting Was 1944 very hot in Phoenix too Don?

it's the first 4 day break with zero rain since early June.

It was a busted forecast for us, 8-15 inches forecast turned into 1-2 inches of slop lol. This is the 14 year anniversary of the hottest two day period of most of our lives! This past June was of a similar magnitude.

But none of those were wall to wall winters. 08-09 was decent but mostly had small events, January was dry and cold 09-10 ended after February 10-11 ended after January 13-14 ended after February 14-15 began on January 20 15-16 started on January 20 and ended on February 20 None of these measure up to 93-94, 95-96 and 02-03.

and yet we still have not had winters like 1993-94 and 1995-96 and 2002-03 here in terms of wall to wall snow and wall to wall cold. 2002-03 was the last of those winters here.

Big Oil already has a fall back, it's plastics and the petrochemical industry. Fossil fuels will be used and utilized for the next 100 years or more in some way shape or form. We were always fooling ourselves thinking we could stop using them, it's like telling ourselves we can stop drinking water. Instead it would have been much better to balance it out with other forms of fuel. Including nuclear. Stopping nuclear was the worst thing we ever did. If there was a way to go back in time to change things, the most effective change would have been to promote nuclear much more and put more funding into nuclear reactors. We already had the technology in the 80s, it should have been expanded then.