LibertyBell

You're absolutely right but it's just one room and it's electric heat. The rest of the house is at 65. :-P I do like when it gets mild because then I don't turn it on and I don't usually have it on during the day if it's sunny even if it's cold outside and even if I'm home because I get a lot of sunlight from two sides (east and south) so it heats up very quickly regardless of how cold it is outside during the day.

That might be my favorite meme of ALL TIME lol

Thanks Walt, this is VERY important especially since the most traffic accidents occur in under 1" and 1-3" of snow!

Thanks! Was the AO very negative that month?

Yes, this is exactly the right way to do it. We're even seeing a slowing down of population growth in developing nations because of this. I like a proper balance which would be around 2 children per family, but not forced in any way, by family planning and education and better economies.

You're very right to be concerned, since these are big issues. Current mining is not always done ethically and there needs to be a better way of doing it without impacting the environment and the people who live where it's done. I was excited to read about underwater mining by autonomous drones which doesn't disturb the environment nearly as much nor does it negatively impact sea life. The issue is that with a higher adoption rate of EVs we will need to scale this up and then we'll see what happens to the environment. I'd like to see the development of solid state batteries which should reduce the need for rare earths (they are also in your cell phone batteries, which is like present day EV in terms of battery chemical composition.) On top of that a more recent issue has developed which is that these vehicles become a fire risk when it floods (lots of reports of this during Hurricane Ian in Florida.) All of this needs to be ironed out before they can be adopted on a larger scale than they currently are.

I get very passionate about environmental issues, health and population growth, etc. it's stuff I've been interested in since I was like 11 or 12. Maybe even earlier.... I remember getting into nature when I was in 3rd grade and getting a book that was about all the different phyla of animals and always watched a lot of PBS, they have some GREAT documentaries I've been watching since I was a kid.

Not without merit, there are scientific studies that have been done on them and proved that you are correct.

Big difference by human caused climate change is the rate of rise, which does not give nature time to adjust. The rate of rise is much higher now and will continue to increase.

Yup "climo" favors the timeframe between Dec 26-30

Not necessarily. We've talked about December 1989. You need a lot more than cold to get snow. Being a results oriented person I would rather have December 1995, December 2000, December 2002, December 2003, December 2009 or December 2010 over this by far. This is just a milder version of December 1989.

it's not luck though it's the same pattern we had in the 80s when it was cold and didn't get much snow between 83-93. There are nuances in the pattern that prevented it. There are cold and rainy patterns too and nuanced reasons why they happen.

This is an important discussion that needs to be had. Far more important than snow.

Thank you! This has very negative impacts on health and the environment too. Population growth is projected to stabilize by or before 2100 but that may be too late. We are now using all the resources the planet produces in a year in just six months. The 1970s was the last time that was in balance.

This is only because political leaders are corrupt and are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel cartels-- the transition should have been occurring a lot faster than it is. Renewable fuel is now cheaper and produces higher paying jobs and is far healthier too.

People call solar energy an "intermittent" source of energy-- why? The sun is powered by fusion and is always on all the time. You just need to be able to access solar energy in space and send it down here. We can maybe actually do that one day in the not too distant future by capturing solar energy in space and converting it to another form of energy, storing it and then sending it down here (as microwaves.)

Yep but this is also why people complain about the 80s. The big storms were there and the cold air was around. It's not random luck though, there are reasons why patterns like this are different from what we had in the early to mid 2000s and the early and mid 2010s

What is the answer to 1/0 and why is it different from the answer to 0/0?

Natural gas is just a euphemism the dirty and corrupt fossil fuel companies use-- it's really methane which is FAR worse than CO2 is as a greenhouse gas. We really need to get off all of them and nuclear fission (specifically thorium) and fusion when we finally have it are the only real answers. Our air still has a lot of air pollution and air pollution is the number one shortener of life on the planet-- ahead of even tobacco smoking. It's a much worse problem in the summer (we have a lot of bad air quality alert days.) NO2 air pollution from car exhaust is a real problem and we need a faster switch to EVs! Air pollution is even more of a problem in minority communities-- for example in West Oakland where diesel is used the life expectancy is a full 9 years shorter! The air pollution is a big problem which is why we see high rates of asthma and lower life expectancies. I am glad you addressed the overall largest problem of all (for pretty much everything) which is population growth and population density. The UN forecasts that to stabilize by or before 2100, let's hope that happens.

Thats how I feel about April snow! It's also special because you know it's the last one of the season.

So the warmth gets here starting on the 29th? Sustained temps in the 50s and sunny? That's not bad if that's what happens.

Hell we had 55 with heavy rain and SE gale force winds in Jan 1994 with the low the previous morning of ZERO DEGREES! 60 may be a bit difficult but 50-55 is easy.

Don, how close did December 1989 get to being on this list? We had very light snowfalls about once a week that very cold month and I believe the AO was very negative and the total monthly snowfall didn't amount to much. Most of the snow we got that season was in the Thanksgiving storm-- we must have had a two month very negative AO that season and then it flipped to extreme positive. It's nice to see 2012-13 still on this list though maybe that's a warmer version of the 1989-90 pattern (like this season might be too) where you get low snowfall in December but the warmer offshore waters result in a developing coastal bomb for February? It's amazing to have 1976-77 anywhere near this list since that was so historically cold and a weak el nino to boot. I wonder why we didn't have much snow that winter and why it warmed up so rapidly in February? That was a characteristic of the 80s too (cold dry Januarys and mild Februarys.)

Wow that was another season of extremes! You said 9 out of the other 10 were before WWII-- was the 10th one more recent than 1989-90?

What's the farthest west a storm has ever cut in recorded history lol?