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Don do you think we could have another single digit day towards the later part of February? We had one in 2015 on the last day of the month (almost March). It must have been decades since we've had a single digit low in March.
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That was the night of the total lunar eclipse when our power went out for 2 hours.
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Wow, that's amazing! I think that was the coldest for the Poconos too (MPO/ABE). Add that it was a historic snowfall season for that region too. So for that area, this outbreak was colder than either Jan 1977 or Jan 1985? Snowcover must have been part of why.
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Allentown at -15 woah, the Poconos must've been like -25 or -30. 1994 was also Allentown's snowiest winter on record. The cold and snow that winter was somewhat well predicted after how historically hot summer 1993 was (still had the greatest heatwave I've ever seen-- 10 straight days of 90+, three straight days of 100+ at NYC and 5 straight days of 100+ at Newark with 9 days of 100+ overall!)
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I see a -1 labeled for eastern Long Island, is that in Southold?
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I also read that the air was historically cold aloft but only translated to "very cold" at the surface.
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Thanks that's what I read too, but saw a -11 mentioned here.
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February 1996 was an el nino that had a historic arctic outbreak in February, maybe it's more common in la nina after el nino? JFK's previous record for today was 9 degrees from 1996.
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It didn't even get below 20 in Boston in January, that has to be a record.
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Boston made it to -11?! Wow I thought the low at Montauk was -2 Bridgeport got to -4 which was also impressive Providence at -9 JFK 4 and LGA 5 seem tame by comparison It was also colder NW of us as Binghamton made it down to -13
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wow 9 am is late for a morning low, that must've been some amazing CAA that day! And the high was 10 degrees? (I think it was in the single digits at NYC.) The latest single digit high at JFK was in Jan 1977 I think (but the wind chill not as cold that morning.)
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I'm guessing Jan 1977 was the same way? That might have been the coldest of them all (either that or Jan 1985)
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Thanks, did Jan 1977 also miss just to our west? I think that's the other one were NYC and JFK both got down to -2
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Philly only got down to 15 I think wow
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Was that with the temp at -2, Don? Also would that still qualify for wind chill warnings with the new wind chill calculation-- I think -25 or below qualifies for that with the new numbers?
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weird....so neither of these airmasses went "right down the Hudson"? -2 is really cold for an airmass to miss to our west (but I guess that's why JFK only got to 0 and did not go below)? That airmass must have been much colder and deeper than this one for Block Island to get down to -7! Did the one in Jan 1985 hit us directly?
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That makes Jan 21, 1985 really special-- after all these years that's still the coldest day in my memory.
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so -7 in 1994 is good context for what it would have been here had the cold air came right over us---- -2? Did they not go below zero in Block Island on Jan 21, 1985?
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I've also wondered why JFK hasn't gone below zero since 1985....same reason as ISP?
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Thanks Chris, are all of these oceanic low temps correct? some of these coastal temps are jarring -10 Boston -1 Cape Cod -6 Block Island -3 Nantucket -2 Montauk -3 Bridgeport
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it's weird that NYC went below a few times in 1994 and ISP did not
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some of these coastal temps are jarring -10 Boston -1 Cape Cod -6 Block Island -3 Nantucket -2 Montauk
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-2 was the low at Montauk, -6 at Block Island, -10 at Boston
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How come they dont get modified by the 40+ degree waters?
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Seems like the kind of airmasses we used to get in the 1930s and prior only make it as far south as Boston now.
