LibertyBell

Wow what a resource, thanks so much Julian! I see why you mentioned going to SW NYS lol. Rochester seems to be a state minimum. Do you see that second dip east of Rochester and south of Watertown? Do you think that might be Syracuse or near it? It's curious that Syracuse wasn't labeled on this graph-- it's a much larger city than Watertown is! Right now I'm thinking somewhere between Syracuse and Watertown on I-81 but that could change depending on weather. What do you think is a good time to start out on I-81 at Wilkes Barre, PA?

I am...I just saw a forecast for 8-12 inches of snow in the Poconos?! Thats amazing! How does this storm compare to April 19-20, 1983? No one has been willing to post maps of that amazing storm lol. Our latest accumulating snowfall!

wow, already?

that seems to be the warmest part of the city.... as soon as I get out of the midtown tunnel all the way to the grand central parkway, it's always noticeably warmer than midtown or any other part of the city I've been in.

NYC also has a major urban farming and greening program underway to make the city 30% green by 2030, this should help too.

I've also noticed that JFK radiates better when the winds calm down....sometimes there is as much as a 10 degree difference between NYC and JFK in overnight lows. But on westerly and northwesterly and even northerly winds JFK is warmer at all times of the year for day time highs.

Did you see the game? So the Yankee game was delayed 45 min because of large hail falling in Baltimore. First time I've ever seen a hail delay. It was comical seeing the broadcasters wondering how it was "snowing" when it was so warm outside and then Kay had the line of the night when he was told it was actually hail, he asked "But isn't it too warm to hail?" LOL

So the Yankee game was delayed 45 min because of large hail falling in Baltimore. First time I've ever seen a hail delay. It was comical seeing the broadcasters wondering how it was "snowing" when it was so warm outside and then Kay had the line of the night when he was told it was actually hail, he asked "But isn't it too warm to hail?" LOL

Yes that's what I'm worried about. I think I might need to leave at the break of dawn around 5 AM lol. Also wondering what the weather will be like then, April doesn't usually have the best weather....then again it also has the most variability of any month, anything between 30s to 90s and from clear to rainy to a raging blizzard. I hope things work out in 2024. Is my thought on not going all the way up to Watertown because it's usually cloudier up by Lake Ontario correct?

it isn't going to be that cold lol a mask might be needed for the allergies though, I hate winds

and damn allergies are back because of the wind

1996 had a much colder winter everywhere

But why are LGA mins always several degrees higher than the mins at JFK and NYC (and this happens at all times of the year).

But isn't the warming rise at LGA for mins higher because of how much more built up that area is (urbanization) vs JFK and LGA? JFK radiates far better and of course so does ISP. About the older equipment, do you know what might have happened to it? Why not keep that maintained where it was as a backup check to the new equipment? Where the old equipment is located, would that suffer from the same problems as the new equipment does....since the foliage around there has also been allowed to overgrow? Is there any reason this is now allowed to happen vs back in the 70s and 80s and early 90s when this area was properly maintained and the foliage was trimmed?

LGA max…..+2.3 min……+2.8 JFK max….+1.8 min……+1.2 ISP max…..+2.6 min……+1.6 Chris, I specifically wanted to draw your attention to the above. How is it that Max temps at JFK have outpaced Mins but at LGA it's the opposite? I happen to like the accuracy of JFK temps more than LGA temps, mainly because the lows at LGA seem to be artificially boosted. JFK has a much more natural environment and is more representative of what the local climate should be. Note that ISP is right in line with JFK and even more extreme. Also could you kindly post the 90 degree day data for JFK, LGA and EWR, I want to see how they have changed by decade like you did below for NYC and POU? Thanks! NYC……90 degree days 81-90…….18 11-20……..18 POU…..90 degree days 81-90……..13 11-20………20

Here's an idea.....why didn't they maintain the old sensors as a back up check against the ASOS? I generally don't like ASOS, but I guess they wanted to automate everything. ASOS has a few faults....one of them is "unknown precip type" during mixed precip events and the famous snow, fog when there is no fog and aside from the temperature issue, it doesn't record the wind speeds properly either. I don't see any accuracy superiority of ASOS over the older equipment, so this was clearly all about automation not accuracy.

I've been planning out my eclipse chase for Monday April 8th 2024 and the best place to go for me is going to be either Syracuse or Watertown. I'm going to start out at Wilkes Barre, PA after driving there from my PA house and getting on I-81. Syracuse only has 1 min of 29 min totality but is about an hour closer from PA than Watertown is, but for that extra travel time I get 3 min and 39 sec of totality! I wonder if eclipse totality looks any different from the edge of the totality zone to being right in the middle of it? Either way if I'm going to drive 2hours 19min, I might as well drive 3hours 22min. The eclipse starts at 3:22 pm at both places. I was surprised to see the average high temp on that date for Syracuse is 54! That's pretty nice, I wonder what the average high temp for that day is in Watertown? Obviously cloud cover matters the most, and Syracuse might have a higher chance of clear skies than Watertown, which is right by Lake Ontario? I figured I should leave my house around 10 AM, 1 hour to get to I-81 in Wilkes Barre, and then 4 more hours to get to whichever of those places, get there by 3 PM at the latest.

I've been planning out my eclipse chase for Monday April 8th 2024 and the best place to go for me is going to be either Syracuse or Watertown. I'm going to start out at Wilkes Barre, PA after driving there from my PA house and getting on I-81. Syracuse only has 1 min of 29 min totality but is about an hour closer from PA than Watertown is, but for that extra travel time I get 3 min and 39 sec of totality! I wonder if eclipse totality looks any different from the edge of the totality zone to being right in the middle of it? Either way if I'm going to drive 2hours 19min, I might as well drive 3hours 22min. The eclipse starts at 3:22 pm at both places. I was surprised to see the average high temp on that date for Syracuse is 54! That's pretty nice, I wonder what the average high temp for that day is in Watertown? Obviously cloud cover matters the most, and Syracuse might have a higher chance of clear skies than Watertown, which is right by Lake Ontario? I figured I should leave my house around 10 AM, 1 hour to get to I-81 in Wilkes Barre, and then 4 more hours to get to whichever of those places, get there by 3 PM at the latest.

Wow, maybe Bismarck can get to 0 or lower....that would be the latest that's ever happened!

we'll be in the mid 30s even here in SW Nassau so close to freezing !

wasn't Yesterday a Beatles song? what is it with this wind-- it kicked up my allergies again

Yeah we can't really say the oceans are warming everywhere when we have such a large chunk that are actually cooling down. How bad would climate change have to get to completely end this cooler water and make even the ocean subsurface warm?

isn't this similar to April 19-20, 1983, when there was like 2 inches of snow followed by heavy rain? I keep thinking that was a coastal hugger too

Great union of forces, the lawyer who beat Chevron and the union organizer who beat Amazon!

wow that looks like the GFS from about a week ago lol that someone posted here. Accumulating snowfall to sea level based on those? Temps in the mid 30s even here? How similar would this be to what happened on April 19-20, 1983? I keep hoping for someone to post maps and snowfall totals from that storm.....