LibertyBell

I'm not sure this is going to work, at some point you come up against a ceiling of what is possible on a single planet in terms of population, amount of technology, and the resources available. I'm sure you are aware of Overshoot Day, it's the day every year we run out of the amount of resources the Earth can produce in that year. It's simple math really, unless we start offloading people off the planet, nature is going to do all of this for us. https://www.overshootday.org/ Earth's carrying capacity is 10 billion and if anyone thinks that any kind of technology will save us against the simple math of limited resources, a finite size and exponential population growth, they are just kidding themselves-- sometimes literarily!

April 1976 was matched by April 2002, I loved that dry heat, the sky was as blue as I've ever seen it. We also hit 90 in April 1977. 1977 had one of the top heatwaves on record (along with 1954 and 1993).

On the flip side, with its much shorter period of record, has JFK ever had a winter average below freezing? Also, with the warmest winters there, wasn't March 2016 colder than December 2015? So if included March in the rankings, would 2015-16 fall out of first in the rankings? Chris-- two of your temperature tables are missing location headers.

1917-1918 was a far superior winter to 1976-77 both in terms of extreme temps and snowfall, 1976-77 would have driven most of us crazy with dry and cold.

tornado in downtown LA and record low pressure in SF!

That's correct, but what I find fascinating in a horribly ironic way is....do the people in charge not realize how dire the situation is and that we are at end stage with this or do they not take it seriously enough-- their lackadaisacal approach is quite perplexing. Or are they convinced we'll find a new planet to populate (terraforming Mars perhaps?) What do they expect the final outcome to be? Also, and just as importantly, why don't scientists in this field, rather than just issuing reports, speak out more loudly, that human societies will collapse within our lifetimes if this is allowed to continue? Why dont they go on strike and force everything to a halt until this is truly addressed? I think at this point mass strikes by scientists are the only way we can stop this calamity now. You'd think that the pandemic would have taught humanity a lesson....but humanity shows itself to not be deserving of its "sapiens" name all the time.

wow thats amazing the top 5-6-7 list is very similar

Today is the actual first day of spring and it feels like it, the birds as well recognize it as the first day of spring as I've seen them doing their normal spring rituals for the first time this year.

1990 completed the flip today from scorching heat to freezing cold

He divided it into four categories....weak, moderate, strong and very strong (super)....so 1997-98 and 2015-16 fit into the very strong (super) category. The category between that and moderate seems to be very neglected lol, the last one that was between moderate and very strong/super was 1991-92.

wow we basically had a March average winter. do you have the average for MPO, Chris? Thanks! also, has JFK averaged 40.0 or higher? I think they did in 2015-16, which was a lot snowier than this winter. Was that their mildest winter?

what I'm fascinated by is that "strong" is a rare category.... how many "strongs" have we had since 2000? More than moderate and less than super. no strongs since 1991-92 wow

well thats why 1993-94 and 2009-11 were ideal.....think about it, we had 102 degrees in July 1993 and then -2 in January 1994! In 2009-11 we had 20 inch snowstorms and then 104 degree heat and then back to 20 inch snowstorms!

Just wait til you start tracking a historic heatwave! You'll love it! July 1993 got me hooked!

Easiest winter grade EVER F----------------------------------------------------------------------- that F could stand for a few other things too lol

2010-11 was a strong la nina and was one of our best winters ever, because it was a la nina after an el nino. as was 1995-96

Yes those are your favorites lol

2002-03 and 2009-10 were both borderline strong 1977-78 was weak but was functionally a moderate because it was a second year el nino note-- some of our best winters are la ninas that come after el ninos, they have the best combo of cold and moisture

thats correct, also doesn't el nino inject more water vapor into the atmosphere which would keep high temps in check? higher mins and higher humidity though

ironic that we were fringed in mid April lol must have been a very long duration very cold storm, 10:1 or less?

amazing, 19 inches in Philly? someone in our area must have gotten 20 inches out of this

1990 - The northeastern U.S. was in the midst of a snowstorm as spring officially began at 4 19 PM. Snowfall totals in the Green Mountains of Vermont ranged up to thirty inches, and up to 15 inches of snow was reported in the Catskills and Adirondacks of eastern New York State. Totals in eastern Pennsylvania ranged up to 12 inches at Armenia Mountain. The storm resulted in one death, and forty-nine injuries. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) I take it this was an inland snowstorm, with snowfall as close as the Poconos? I don't remember any here around this time (we had 1-2 inches in the first week of April though, which was something, after it had been in the upper 80s in mid March lol)

it's probably the last freeze for me too, I average about 2 degrees lower than NYC.

Don, the chances that this morning is the last below freezing low of the cold season?

That reminds me of 1992 actually. We had a very cold fall but the winter was not as cold (but very stormy, the December 1992 noreaster which was the GOAT of noreasters). Not sure if this summer will be more like 1991 (very hot, record number of 90 degree days) or 1992 (cold summer and very rainy.) On the aerosol issue, could this be spotted in the lack of deep blues in clear skies? We're getting reports of milky skies on clear days, which is similar to what you see when particulates or aerosols are released into the atmosphere (like from a fire).