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LibertyBell

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  1. that late march fluke storm is what screwed it out of the lowest snowfall record, otherwise we would be competing with it instead Did you look at how crazy snowfall amounts were in the 90s-- 3 out of 4 years with less than 10 inches of snow sandwiched by two historic years with over 50 inches each lol
  2. It's pretty apparent that a good Pacific is way more important than NAO blocking, I've seen enough bad NAO blocks to know that they carry false advertizing. Give me a great Pacific over NAO blocking any day, week or year. I've seen plenty of nao blocks that didn't work out.
  3. It's awesome huh.....we have had like 3 events total one with zero accumulation, one with a light coating on some elevated surfaces and one with a solid coating but also only on elevated surfaces....none of these stayed on the ground more than an hour or two lol We also set the record for warmest January in recorded history and only three days with a low below freezing.
  4. 0.2 at JFK so close to perfect futility and it feels like spring now and planting has begun
  5. This is just like one extended December 2015, I've already begun planting. at JFK 10 of the last 35 seasons have had fewer than 10" It's more common to get less than 10" than it is to get 40" and almost as common as getting 30" Used to this now.
  6. How did your predictions do so far? I look forward to seeing everyone's verification scores at the end of the season. Do you do yours at the end of March or sometime in April? In the Northeast and especially the Lakes region outside of Buffalo but also along the coast, it really hasn't snowed much in a few years, businesses that involve snow have been shutting down and looking for other kinds of work as climate patterns shift (an example is how the lobster business is dwindling with warmer ocean temps and the lobsters have been moving north of Maine and into the coastal waters around the Maritime Provinces of Canada.)
  7. Thats an awesome thread I read it to the end and when he concluded about the government and media response leaving a lot to be desired
  8. No it was not, 2010 was a historic pattern, this one wasn't. The temperatures don't even come close to matching. This was way more like the 80s pattern which was way before your time dude. Plenty of cold snowless Decembers then.
  9. I mean I was thinking of your luck scenario actually-- let's say it had snowed in December (ballpark figure...6-10 which is probably where the predictions were based on blocking.)... how often does a blowtorch January-February couplet happen after that? I settled on 6-10 because I distinctly remember Don saying back in December that while the blocking pattern was good, there were other factors that made him believe that while December would be decent (and 6 inches of snow would be decent), he didn't expect double digit snowfall in NYC.
  10. Yes, I think with the shortening wavelengths we could see something decent-- that's what usually seems to happen in patterns and winters like this. What fails in January and February can succeed in March. That's the main reason that March was the snowiest month in the 50s.
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