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Right, this alone should have indicated that April 1997 would be a bust down here. Somehow the Jersey shore ended up getting 6-8 inches out of it though.

By the way for anyone who doesn't know-- Concordia Station is actually Dome C. It is a most amazing place with skies as clear and stars as brilliant as what the Hubble Telescope experiences (or closest to it.) Vostok station has the coldest temps but Dome C is not far behind. Even colder than either is Dome A (which stands for Argus) which is at the top of the Antarctic Plateau, although it might be rivalled by Dome F (which stands for Fuji) and Ridge A.

Looks like we should also be worrying about Antarctica melting.

I dont use avg monthly temps as good indicators of extreme heat, it's better to use extreme heatwaves. March 1990 stands out to me as the hottest weather I've ever seen in March with 3 consecutive days of 85+ getting close to 90 during the middle of the month. Ditto for April 2002 when we hit 90+ three straight days and almost 4, and topped out at 96, matching a similar heatwave in April 1976 (but in 2002 the heat lasted all throughout the spring and summer and even into early fall.)

the westerly flow is much better which is why I'm a big advocate of climate engineering, we need to get on this sooner, not later. There is no other way to stop what's going to happen if we don't.

I really want to monitor Antarctic temps at Vostok, Dome C and the South Pole like I used to but the two programs I used no longer work. One used weatherunderground data but since TWC took them over and instituted their greedy crapitalistic model they charge so much for getting the data that none of my programs use them anymore-- the only one which does charges 30 dollars a month (!) and the other one, YoWindow, no longer works because it required Flash and Adobe made that obsolete. Is there any way to monitor those locations in a desktop program anymore and store the data in a spreadsheet?

is there a site which regularly monitors these temps so I can check them hourly and upload them to an external program Chris?

yeah it's telling about all the concrete and uhi lol. since even the south shore of nassau county has seen multiple 6"+ events in that time.

By significant you mean 6" correct? April 2003, March 2018 and April 2018 fit that description, but like Chris said, when talking about New York City you have to include all 5 boroughs. JFK had 5" in April 2003 and again in April 2018 and thats close enough to 6" to be considered significant. March 2018 was closer to 8"

Thanks Chris, can you get me a similar list of all snowfall events at JFK since March 25th from 1990 onwards?

That storm was a big bust here, I wonder what happened? More snow to the north and south of us.

what did Long Beach get in the April storm? I loved that one (no mixing) do you have JFK totals for both storms?

too bad, this just sounds like more of the stuff we've been seeing in March with trace amounts of snow

Like LGA I think? Anything measurable at any of the city sites in April or May?

you like rainy cold weather eh

I'd rather it be in the first week of April, those are the ones we remember.

is this kind of extreme cold now forecast to last into early April, Chris-- could we see lows below freezing in April (and maybe even a chance of snow during the first week of the month)?

at least once every hour for three straight hours

It better happen in early April, those are better storms than late March ones

I hope it happens in early April, that's much more memorable than a tiny storm at the end of March.

wow I didn't realize that 4/2018 had the second largest April snowfall at the Park since 1950 since the big blizzard in April 1982. Should also toss in JFK/LGA totals since some were higher than the NYC totals. 4/1/2006 was 1.5" at JFK 4/9-10/1996 was 4.5" at JFK 4/19/1983 was 1.5" at JFK (latest accumulating snow) 4/7/2003 was 5.5" at JFK Wow I didn't realize April 1956 had sizeable snow even after that excellent March, very similar to what happened in 2018.

Weird not to see 1967 in this list, 1967 was the benchmark for all backend winters (and bookend winters too).

Thanks rclab, the allergies went away with my nightly Benadryl-- I take two a week currently.

I was thinking that melting ice might be draining into the Atlantic and climate change also means we probably won't get the 70s-80s pattern again because of warmer water around here and further offshore.

we won't get the 70s-80s pattern anymore because of how much the climate has changed since then