LibertyBell

It's fascinating similar things happen near Westhampton and Martha's Vineyard. But the Jersey Pine Barrens do have the and only Jersey Devil ;-)

and this with a 3rd year la nina no less, who knows how much lower it will go with a strong el nino

Yep and on bare ground too, that really was one weird winter. We did have a couple of other minor snow events, one around superbowl weekend and the other one was when the big crane fell in Manhattan...but those basically sideswiped us.

Fun for extremes but outside of the 30" snowfall and the -1 winter didn't really happen lol.

I know! It's like an endless Fall that never truly became winter outside of a 4 day stretch of dry and cold in late December...maybe not even like Fall...more like Spring? I've seen early Aprils that were colder than this! =\

Hopefully that target to greenify the city (30% green by 2030), rooftop gardening and urban farming helps with that as there are some real health issues associated with UHI (and with processed food.) Our first freeze doesn't happen until later November now-- that's like Atlanta or worse lol.

I got alerted to that the year you were in Austin.... JFK became only the second place on the east coast to get 40 inches of snow in a winter that averaged 40 F for the entire winter. The other place....Norfolk Virginia lol.

Reminds you of Dec 2015 doesn't it?

Chris do you have the peak for JFK in there too?

Before that happens the sun will expand and engulf the earth so there really will be no earth left to hurl through space.

It's actually exciting in a sense because it's much more unpredictable. I hope we have a few snowy winters in there too along with hot dry summers.

Hopefully not. January shouldn't have 31 days anyway so that's really "fake January" But I see the cold holding off until Tuesday night so actually February 1st.

Even if snowfall ends, the world won't end. Also, even if humanity ends, the world won't end. To be honest, the world would probably be far better off without humanity.

It's not that simple though. You can still see renegade snowstorms anywhere (even the deep south) while still getting below average snowfall winters everywhere...as a matter of fact some of our worst winters had snowfall in that area like 1972-73, 2001-02, etc. A snowfall track down there is actually more common than it is here in certain patterns. The 80s were MUCH worse than the 90s trust me.

There is no such thing as "average" the climate has and will always be a moving target.

We're also going to see more and more winters which have one snowfall defining the majority of the snowfall season. This usually only happened in strong el ninos, but we see it more in other enso winters too (like 2005-06). Milder with one dominant snowfall will probably comprise at least one third of our snowfall seasons going forward. It already feels like the south shore of Long Island has become like Norfolk and Virginia Beach.

Yes that sucks as I love hot dry weather vs very warm humid weather. I think humanity won't stand by and we'll probably have some climate engineering projects underway in the next few decades to try to fix some of these issues with much warmer waters and deviating ocean currents, etc. Another much serious issue that hasn't been mentioned much is the horrible severe weather season in the south which now seems to be year round. The severe weather season has actually shifted from Oklahoma and Texas to Dixie Alley where tornadoes are much more frequent now and a year round severe weather season.

Cold is from Wednesday to Friday with no freezing or below lows until February 1st. I actually think those temps are somewhat underdone, we'll probably see three straight 50+ temps (this weekend and Monday.)

Maybe that's why the magnetic pole is in the process of flipping?

Yes the best la ninas are the ones that come after el ninos. I wouldn't be hoping for a weak el nino-- those behave like neutrals at our latitude, if you want an el nino hope for a high moderate or a strong one. weak el ninos are better for new england (moreso now). People point to 1977-78 but that was a very special case of a second year weak el nino and so behaved much more like a moderate el nino.

it depends, there have been some super cold la ninas in the past, some of our snowiest winters were la ninas I wouldn't be hoping for a weak el nino-- those behave like neutrals at our latitude, if you want an el nino hope for a high moderate or a strong one. weak el ninos are better for new england (moreso now).

it needs to be on the level of 02-03 or 09-10, weak el ninos wont do it for us anymore

average means nothing really. What you're likely to get in the typical decade moving forward is something like this: 2/10 winters with 40"+ snowfall 5/10 winters with under 20"+ snowfall 3/10 winters with snowfall between 20-40 inches

This is also responsible for moving the Bermuda High northward blunting our high temperatures in the summer

Didn't Long Island see an even higher peak, Chris?