LibertyBell

corn subsidies need to go bye bye

That's what I've been thinking too, and eventually these higher temps will lead to massive crop failures as that region will no longer be fertile for growing crops. I see similar effects in the northeast, where we will eventually hit 100 degrees regularly every year even with more rainfall and an onshore flow.

weather channel map, I guess it was way off. When I checked back I couldn't see anyone with more than 18" at my house in the Poconos there was 5" or so

aren't cornbelt farming practices now leading to higher humidity and more severe weather though? dry heat is a lot better than humidity.

It depends where on Long Island you're talking about, JFK has only had one since PD2 and that's Jan 2016, but that beat all the others of course, with over 30"+

any early thoughts on the summer, Don? I'm thinking it will be very warm but not excessively hot, and of course lots of rain.

That changeover to rain was quite unexpected....did the storm go further west than expected?

wth....Philly had a freeze on May 11th in 1966? I dont think NYC has ever had a freeze that late. How is Philly colder than NYC is?

NE PA is the place to be, there are no coastal storms that hit Central PA. I had 5 inches at my other house, but the sweet spot seems to be extreme Northern/NE PA where over 2 feet fell? I think they got more than Binghamton there on the PA side of the border.

I want to see a snowbow! This is what it looked like at my house in the Poconos today.

That wasn't just graupel, those were some amazing winds my house was shaking-- the winds were stronger than they were during the storm and the clouds looked scary, they almost reached the ground! What was going on?

Glad we didn't get that. We had 4 straight days of near 90 or in the 90s!

Walt, if you can find a snowfall map of April 19-20, 1983 please post. All I know about that storm is 2-4 inches fell on Long Island back to the city but close to 2 feet upstate. With last night's storm there was close to 5" in the Poconos, with thundersnow and high winds.

Purple Rain

Last winter was probably good there too but like you said the storms blow up later and hit places like Binghamton better than State College

well it's now shifting back. It still amazes me how it can snow near the ocean with how mild the waters are.

yes thundersnow in the Poconos about an hour ago

around 2000 feet, maybe a little higher very close to Lake Harmony, my ears pop there, so it might be 2200-2400 feet Okay my sister is there right now and she said that there has been a lot of thunder with snow and blindingly heavy snow for awhile, around 3 inches already but then it mixed with and changed to rain for awhile and right now it's a mixture of rain and snow. Said there was nonaccumulating snow yesterday and it's been snowing today since 3 PM and thundersnow tonight with very heavy snow and high winds and about 30 min ago it changed to rain but it just started mixing back with snow.

do you think if this storm had taken a benchmark track we would have gotten that snow or do you think it never would have happened here no matter what?

wow snow close to my house!...how much do you think has fallen there? I think there will be 4-6 there from this storm.

Memorial Day weekend is just fine with me, that's when it's supposed to get hot.

Going forward if anyone wants snow they really should live in the mountains. Coastal areas weren't really meant for much snow anyway. Chris, if we have a strong block right now, why is this storm taking a hugger track? Also, would any track, even a benchmark track matter this time of year, or no matter what would this have been rain for us?

and like I've seen saying there was an HECS on this date in 1983!

That really does seem to be the hottest part of the city, whenever I drive by there, my car thermometer spikes up by 5 degrees lol

Ever been near Linden? They seem to be a local hot spot too lol