LibertyBell

April 2003 and April 2018 were both very decent all day snowfalls, did you shovel either of those?

When is Easter this year?

I wont forget 2015 either, best March I can remember and February was amazing too with record long lasting cold through both months. I actually rank it above 2013-14 although they're both As in my book,

holy hell your Januarys sound like what ours were back in the 80s....we had cold and dry Januarys back then avg temps in the 20s and no double digit snowfalls. Do you have any records from the 80s for your area for January?

You've been getting a lot of weenies lately lol

Thats what lowers this winter in my book.....if we had our regular big storm circa Jan 20th this winter would've been a lot better even if we get shut out in March. Based on my own criteria I'd give this winter a B, if we get one more moderate snowfall in the 4-6 range I'd raise it to B+

the weird thing is these warm springs seemed to be much more common during the 90s up to 2002.....remember 1991 (earliest 90 on record up to that point, later broken by 2010), 1993 also had a very warm spring and both years are tied as the years with the most 90 degree days (should've been broken in 2010). And 2002 had that amazing three day heatwave in April to match 1976 but unlike 1976 we had a very hot and dry summer that lasted well into September! Weird that summer is heating up faster than spring is (maybe because of warm mins) since theoretically summer anomalies in the positive direction should be the most difficult to obtain.

hopefully this wont be one of those stupid cool/rainy springs and be much more like 2010

wasnt that the coldest march on record by a wide margin?

wow 1980 really stands out there- if i'm not mistaken didn't that have a 60+ day 80 degree average (covering both July and August)?

yeah but the truly historic summers have had 100 degree temps plus humidity, IMO we cant consider a summer to be historic without 100 degree temps and at least 30+ days with 90 degree highs

that was a much more violent black out than the one we had in 2003 in August (did I get the year right lol)

I always wondered what started that cycle lol. If you look at 1944.....it really stands out with the number of 100 degree days compared to the rest of that decade....likewise with 1966 and 2010 of course. 1999 had most of them confined to July (similar to 1955). 1988 was more of an inland heat summer. 1977 had that one historic hot stretch and the big blackout Scorchers outside of this pattern include 1948, 1953, 1980, 1983, 1991,1993, 2002...... 1983 must get special mention because its combo of heat and humidity is unparalleled (as well as late season heat). 1991 and 1993 set the 90+ degree record at NYC and 1993 especially I remember as being wall to wall heat! and that three day super heat wave of course which I experienced again in 2010. I'm also going to include 2011-13, they were all super hot and reached 100 degrees and July 2011 had the hottest day I've ever experienced bar none. And then the big deluge came in August lol. Cant forget 1995 either with the astonishing 130 heat index in July and then the wild fires in August.

I thought you and Forky were organizing a group to chop down the foliage in Central Park?

I hope we get the drier heat. Make it happen lol. We dont reach triple digits here on Long Island unless we get a westerly flow.

so more like 2010?

are we doing winter ratings already? That winter gets a B in my book because we had a few other snow events right after that (remember the snow cover around the superbowl and when the big crane fell in Manhattan)....had 40 inches of snowfall with 50 inches in spots on Long Island. It would get a B plus based on snowfall alone as well as the below zero temp on Valentines Day but gets scaled down to B because of the miserable December. If you grade on January and February alone though that should be a B+

I wouldn't mind both in the same year.....two of my favorite periods of history were 1993-1996 and 2009-2016.

March 2015 was the greatest March I've ever experienced. 2018 was even better if you include April!

Wild weather? Okay well the first 9 of those days will be sunny so if that's wild for you, so be it.

I mean 80s is pretty boring, at least triple digits is something we'll remember. I always celebrate a triple digit temp with a few cold ones

Enjoy your time away Walt! Hopefully we get some historic heat in July and have a super heatwave (three straight days of over 100) which brings you back for a bit!

March 20-23 if past history is to be any guide (and it should be, as storms seem to cluster around specific dates.)

who?

How much did NYC get in the April 1956 snow, Don? and wow Philly got that much snow in April 1990? How much did JFK get? Looks like that was a southern storm? I remember 89-90 for the odd cold dry December followed by record warm January and February and what can only be described as a heat wave in the middle of March! and March 2015? wasn't that a cold February and March and we had a single digit low just before March 1st and an 8 inch snowstorm in March?