LibertyBell

why doesn't anyone ever think of covering their snow piles with tarp?

Looks like the Southern Poconos just north of Allentown should do well here.

48 hour rule is much better for it

I thought the initial danger was the storm being suppressed lol

Thanks Don, I've always wondered why very cold weather Thanksgiving week (after a mild November before that) often leads to our best winters.

Why is snowman19 weenieing everyone? Not only are they talking about this in the ENSO thread too, this is what the models show and all our TV forecasters are saying the same thing.

and El Chichon! That was the largest of all of the recent ones.

I would rather use since 1950, but we know that all of these methods are imperfect because none of them shows a complete climate picture. *the reason I would use 1950 as my starting point is that is when many of our airport records began and also when we started having a complete record of ENSO data.

The bugs really freak me out. So these new insects we have that are eating our trees (lantern flies), the media is reporting that having these new giant Joro spiders coming up here from the south is good because they will eat the insects? Does anyone in their right mind think it's a good idea to have giant spiders up here? I certainly do not. I hope it does snow next weekend and it ends the possibilities of any of that happening.

Is this reminiscent of 2011-12, Chris?

well we've had a nice run.... I can say it's been a privilege and an honor to experience so many top 10 and top 20 winters, and even the ones at the bottom were interesting in some way because they too were historic.

Wow this is so peaceful and serene. Is this considered a lagoon?

Our line of demarcation is the end of January, if nothing of significance (say, an event of 3" or greater) happens by January's end, the winter will very likely be below normal snowfall here. Average snowfall here is around 25" so that would mean under 20" and most likely under 12"

I think it's a dormant volcano and that view is exactly the reason I want to do it. What a view! Do you want to visit Iceland again now that volcanic activity seems to be on the rise there?

That was around a foot of snow here and I still remember it because I didn't have to shovel, the wind blew the snow off my driveway lol. The high snowfall totals started as soon as you got to Brooklyn and Queens.

There was actually a trek up to a volcano in the package I was looking at, I think that would be fun to do.

wow, I'm strongly considering vacationing there next year, sounds absolutely amazing. I heard you can see Ocean Sunfish there!

Sounds absolutely amazing! The reason I ask is because I'm strongly considering vacationing there next year. Surfing and snorkeling are definitely two things I'd want to do there.

Yeah I'm really looking for one upstairs plus one for the basement (if there is a mold issue in my steam heating it likely started in the basement), plus reinforcing some of the insulation because when the wind blows, my doors slam shut lol. It gets really windy here (regardless of the season) and that always blows in whatever allergies are happening outside, so a double layer of protection seems like a good idea. I was using a space heater as a de facto dehumidifier in my bedroom haha..... probably not the best idea. But I would go to sleep with the steam heater aimed at my face to keep the mold away (it actually worked but I always woke up dehydrated and with a headache anyway even when the space heater was on an automatic setting to only turn on when my room temp fell below 75.)

Do you have dehumidifiers now? It's what was recommended for me, so I'm going to get a couple of them and see if they solve this issue. I think it may have gained a foothold in my house because it's been much worse the last couple of years than it was before. And sometimes it happens even when the weather is dry but my steam heat turns on, so that alarmed me. Winter when there's some sort of snow cover is always the best time of year for me, not only does everything look prettier, there's no insects coming inside and no allergies! Yay lol.

and I thought pollen allergies were bad (this is what I had when I was little) mold is a whole other level of evil.... winter was my only respite, no allergies between December and March, except so far for last winter and this winter (both were bad for mold). Here's the really funny thing and something to ponder.... the last couple of years the allergies actually went away in spring..... April through June was great.... when it wasn't raining much and it was really dry. The allergies came roaring back in July again when the big rains started. But as long as it doesn't rain and isn't all that humid, everything's fine. It can snow as much as it wants, snow doesn't bring on mold allergies either. But any kind of liquid precip-- be it drizzle, fog, rain, etc-- and especially if the pattern is stuck for a couple of days-- it gets really bad.

a lot of inside runner tracks perhaps with a prolonged +NAO-- which causes rain and mild for the coast followed by cold arctic shots followed by more rain and mild for the coast?

Yes and I'm afraid it's black mold, and here is the really weird thing, it stopped raining around 7 AM this morning and the sun came out for like an hour, but in that one hour, my allergies went away and have not come back all day. I started noticing this a few years ago, with the mold and it's happened almost every time we're in a long duration rainy or even just drizzly pattern, that the mold gives me really bad allergies. My sister has the same thing (with her its more about getting really bad headaches, with me its a stuffy nose and constricted throat-- although she's had the throat issue too.) She lives in the Poconos and it's been pretty bad there too, so this is a regionwide thing right now. YES MOLD HEADACHE-- THANK YOU-- THAT'S WHAT MY SISTER GETS-- AND WE DIDN'T PUT 2 AND 2 TOGETHER UNTIL WE REALIZED THAT HER MOLD HEADACHES AND MY BREATHING ISSUES HAPPENED ON THE SAME DAYS! Normally as soon as April gets here the allergies begin (except when we have a dry spring, like the last couple have been), this time around they've persisted much later than I can ever remember. I may have black mold, the other thing I noticed about it is when my steam heat turns on it sometimes causes an allergic attack (it doesn't happen every time though-- it's mostly if it turns on late at night-- around 3 or 4 am-- I'll wake up sneezing several times-- or that one time when I couldn't breathe for a few minutes.)

I remember several of those winters were much better both north and south of here, and NW of the city was a major mantra of that decade (Vet Day 1986 was typical) except for the major exception of February 1983. That was THE HECS of my childhood and nothing measured up to that huge storm until January 1996 happened. April 1982 also reached near mythic levels because of how late in the season it happened and just how cold it was. We might not see another April 1982 type snowstorm/blizzard in our lifetimes (even the April Fools Day snowstorm, which delivered more snow in New England but was a bust here didn't have the kind of cold that April 1982 had.)

is he the successor to JB?