LibertyBell

nono I lived through the 80s it was entirely different, yes it was snowless, BUT, it was MUCH colder back then it is now and aside from 1983, the rainfall was MUCH less and the growing season was MUCH shorter thankfully much fewer allergies. This is much more to do with the excessive rainfall and the much longer growing season and rising amount of allergies. I'm seriously considering spraying everything with bleach to destroy this new "growth"

Maybe we'll hit those winter forecasts calling for our snow season to start after January 20.

how is it hitting 96 on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean? what are the SST there?

April-June was the best this year (except for when the skies turned deep red from the wild fires).

Is there a number as in index to ascribe its severity though (like a winter severity index?) and where does 1917-1918 rank on the list (I thought that was one of our most severe winters) as well as 1933-34?

the sun is coming out and i see a sun dog

thanks, so regularly replace the filter?

it would be far more bearable without the rain and with more sunshine

Yess and when the steam heat turns on everything gets worse! How strong or big of a dehumidifier do you need?

I'm actually more focused on precip than temperatures, although both matter. It's become horrible here over several years with the excessive rainfall, damage to people's properties and mold, mildew and moss problems (all year round now.) There is no break from the allergies anymore, not even during winter. The horrible pattern has existed for several years now, not just this year. The Northern Plains is much more resistant to change than the east is-- they are protected from the rapid changes occurring in heat content over the oceans (which is driving our much higher humidity and rainfall totals that are the new normal.)

The last couple of years our dry periods seem to be happening in spring-- April through about June, and then it's back to very wet again by July. I like my hot dry summers and if it's not going to snow in winter it should just be sunny, but we're not getting that either, and it's really bad for those of us who are very sensitive to allergies.

I've had enough of all these rainy years we've been having one after the other. Rainy summers and rainy winters. I dont even care about snow at this point, just get us back to our normal 40" rainfall years, not 55-60 inches.

I'm also wondering how much more we could get tomorrow? Just drizzle?

Thanks Walt, do you have any for just north of Lehighton up by I-80 in that area?

what about the associated rainfall totals? who is going to get to double digit rainfall totals for the month and 60 inches for the year? I suspect JFK is a lock for 60 inches at least?

Looks like most of the rain is over?

They need to cross south of I-78 for this to work

NYC will also hit double digits for the month today Don? Is JFK over 60" for the year now?

firehouse? this is more like a waterfall!

there is a cause and effect relationship which all mainstream scientific institutions acknowledge and recognize.

thats YOUR experience, meanwhile other parts of the country are having much more rapid changes than what you are having. Your area is less sensitive to the effects of climate change than my area is and what other parts of the country have.

and again the current trend has nothing to do with enso, it's happening regardless of the state of enso.

You're going to have much slower changes than what we are having, and that's what the climate models have calculated. Living closer to the ocean determines how massive the changes are that will impact you, both in terms of temperature and rainfall.

again random isolated seasons don't mean anything when you look at the long term, and what we are seeing is a massive change over the long term.

It's embarrassingly obvious at this point with how much things have changed over the last few decades; it isn't just about this year, it's about every year now. My allergies have gotten much worse since the growing season got months longer and our rainfall totals have increased by at least 50%. So using some random year in the 1930s as a counterpoint doesn't really mean anything. It's having major societal and health impacts.