LibertyBell

It sounds like an utter and total nightmare. The good thing about this eclipse being on a Monday is that people should have enough time to get there by the weekend. I'm planning on being there on Saturday. I just hope the weather will be good, early April is pretty dicey.

Can we check this against Upton's snowfall record? I think 1966-67 was the snowiest season on record on Long Island before 1995-96, Upton recorded 75 inches, so that 50.8 at Islip is definitely undermeasured.

2002 possible analog

In this list, the years with scorching summers are 2012, 2002, 1991, 1953. 1953 had our longest heat wave on record (late August into September) with multiple days above 100 and the highest September temperature (102) on record. 1991 was the first year with 39 90+ days at NYC, that was tied 2 years later in 1993.

what year ended up the warmest overall? 2012 was pretty hot-- it was in that marvelous string of hot summers

that reminds me of The Time Machine lol

Sounds like one of those storms that does better south and west, too much ocean influence further north...January 2000 was like that too (or was it January 1999? I always mix up the years lol.)

a bit better than opening day 1996 (although that was a lot of fun too)

it makes you wonder what the pattern will actually be once there is an actual el nino, let alone a strong one.

No they will move the world series to a neutral warm weather site, I see that happening in the next couple of decades.

at this rate people will just drive up there a few hours before the eclipse and hang out by the side of the road and then leave as soon as it ends lol

Don are you confident about that 52 at Central Park?...I was thinking more like 46-47.

you can have it so it rains once a week in the summer (which is ideal if it's around an inch of rain per week) with the other 6 days being hot, or 1 rainy day, 1 cool day and 5 hot and dry days.

might be the last snow for the season in the Poconos too!

1961 had JFK's biggest snowstorm prior to PD2 (and Jan 2016 after that.) 3 snowstorms at JFK with over two feet of snow since 1960.

and lake effect snow also tends to not last that long (because of low water content?). I love that area, it's actually one of three places I have it narrowed down to to see the total solar eclipse next April 8th.... it's between Syracuse (closest), Watertown and Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Going to be in the Poconos the weekend before the eclipse (the eclipse is on Monday) and drive right up I-81 if I chase it in either Syracuse or Watertown. I'm thinking out of those three cities, Syracuse has the best chance of having ideal weather for seeing it in early April? But also the shortest time of totality (1.5 min) while Watertown is 3.75 min.

Boston had close to 100 inches in 33 days, or basically an average of 3 inches every day for 33 days lmao It's hilarious that Buffalo's record is from 2002, one of the least snowiest and warmest winters of all time for us

2010-11 was when we had our record snowpack...... do you have JFK's record for that season too, did they have their record 33 day snowfall accumulation and maximum snowpack of all time record too?

wow thats pitiful, rain changing to heavy snow in Baltimore and we only got 0.4? Suppressed?

wow how come NYC-JFK, etc haven't ever had anything like that? We barely ever got 30 inches in one week, I think Jan 2016 at JFK was the only time that happened and it was all in one storm.

Found out today is the anniversary of that March 1942 storm! 1942: A slow-moving low-pressure system brought 11.5 inches of snow to the nation's capital on March 29, 1942. It still stands as the highest March snowfall on record in Washington, D.C. on a single calendar day. Also, Baltimore, Maryland recorded an imposing total of 21.9 inches of snow on the same day. On the flip side, eight days later, the temperature in D.C. soared to 92 degrees on April 6, 1942, and it remains the highest temperature on record for April 6. I wonder how much we got up here from it? Amazing Baltimore got almost twice DC's total in that storm.

1942: A slow-moving low-pressure system brought 11.5 inches of snow to the nation's capital on March 29, 1942. It still stands as the highest March snowfall on record in Washington, D.C. on a single calendar day. Also, Baltimore, Maryland recorded an imposing total of 21.9 inches of snow on the same day. On the flip side, eight days later, the temperature in D.C. soared to 92 degrees on April 6, 1942, and it remains the highest temperature on record for April 6. wow how much did we get in this imposing storm?

You can even get a bolt ouf of the blue-- and get struck by lightning in a completely clear sky

cool rainy summers are extremely boring

I thought you loved our 2010 summer, that was the most active this board has ever been during the summer, there is nothing interesting about a cool rainy summer.