LibertyBell

I'd like to see what NYC and Long Island looked like when settlers first got here and met the Native Americans. I bet most of the area was wooded.

lol yea, but it's mostly in jest it's a way to vent frustration at our climate. Sort of like how I change ocean/land distribution in Universe Sandbox lol. One time I dragged the solar system to a different part of the galaxy to see if it would trigger the next ice age. Stuff to do when a storm busts.

looks like part is an artificial island because humanity loves to tamper with nature and make their own artificial islands I guess. China does this kind of crap too

it's artificially separated stupid humanity doing dumb things to interfere with nature. Marble Hill became an island in the Harlem River when it was separated from the island of Manhattan by the construction of the Harlem Ship Canal in 1895.

and how can that even be possible? if humanity has done something artificial to make part of Manhattan not an island that shouldn't count.

it's true....Australia specifically is an island and a continent (island continent)? But I'd argue against considering the Americas or AfroEurasia that way (I group them together but they are only separated by two artificial canals.) Australia and Antarctica are island continents though.

I dont believe in bridges being named by family members after their deceased family members either. I think the name is being changed back.

and we have Robert Moses to blame for a lot of the way the highways are structured too. I wish we could build a statue of him somewhere just so we could later tear it down and shatter it to pieces.

https://ams.confex.com/ams/27WAF23NWP/webprogram/Handout/Paper273676/GFS4cycle_2015_NWP_Chicago_15A.pdf you might have not seen it before GFS 06Z and 18Z cycle are less skillful than the 00Z and 12Z cycles. • The difference in the NH is the largest • 06Z data count is always less (10~30%) than other cycles. • Even though the 18Z-cycle forecast score is worse than that of the 00Z cycle, 18Z conventional data count is not less than 00Z data count! 18Z has the same amount of Aircraft data as the 00Z does, but has worse forecast skill scores. • 12Z has less Aircraft data than 00Z, but has similar forecast skill scores to 00Z. • Difference in Aircraft data cannot explain forecast skill differences between 00Z/12Z and 06Z/18Z cycles. There is no difference in satellite data count among the four cycles. • 18Z and 00Z have the same amount of conventional data, but 18Z has worse forecast skills than 00Z. On the other hand, 12Z has less conventional data than 00Z, but 12Z and 00Z have similar forecast skills. • 06Z and 18Z cycles have 10 to 20 times less land rawinsonde observations than the 00Z and 12Z cycles. Is the lack of RAOBS responsible for the lower forecast scores of the 06Z and 18Z cycles? More investigation is required to understand its impact The forecast skills of GFS 06Z and 18Z cycles are not as good as that of the 00Z and 12Z cycles. (based on the rest of the paper it indicates that these factors take effect later on in the forecast period)

well according to the research there's a difference in longer lead times vs shorter lead times, less conventional data means lower skill scores in the mid range and longer

It would be a lot better if we stopped polluting our atmosphere by flying all those airplanes That sky in your picture looks like a dumpster to me, full of trashy human excrements

Do you know of the Tokamak project in Europe to produce controllable nuclear fusion? They just announced they achieved a world record 59 megajoules in 5 seconds in a controlled nuclear fusion reaction!

No it's been proven by research Yang did that the 6z and 18z are significantly worse in the NH at longer lead times

Wow Don so is the reason for the higher percentage of the total as the snowfall amounts go up because of a smaller sample size at each higher interval?

and the climate change subforum lol yes- although I look down when I type for extended periods but I have a memory map of where most of the keys are even when I use only 2 fingers. by the way speaking of the climate subforum there is breaking news! Do you know of the Tokamak project in Europe to produce controllable nuclear fusion? They just announced they achieved a world record 59 megajoules in 5 seconds in a controlled nuclear fusion reaction!

"upstate NY" I would argue that north of Tarrytown is upstate lol

Either way I hope they include Brooklyn and Queens as part of long island lol

I hope I made a good case for the Poconos too in my above post.

Having a place in the Poconos i agree with you there is absolutely nothing as peaceful or as beautiful as getting a little bit of light snow every day for days and then having that snowcover stick around for an entire winter. I had a 5 day flurrystorm one week while NYC had just dry and cold windy weather....they were lake effect streamers that got enhanced by the Poconos elevation and became a real snowstorm in the mountains where my house is at 2200 ft. It would die down every night but pick back up during the day-- my perfect combo. You know that year we had snow in May? Well at my house (and I'm nowhere near as north as you are, I'm at the latitude of the Bronx)....we had an accumulating snowstorm Friday night and then snow squalls all day Saturday with wind chills below 0 and the snow actually stuck, with visibility near 0....and then the following Monday we had a severe thunderstorm with hail that I could see accumulate on my pool cover! What a 4 day period that was! The best of both seasons right there.

Yeah I dont get it either-- they either dont travel between boroughs or it doesn't click with them that all those bridges and tunnels they need to use to get off of Manhattan means they are on an island LOL

You know the other thing I always had trouble with? Convincing people that Australia actually was bigger than Greenland. That damn Mercator Projection! I always preferred globes to flat maps even back then. I remember this back in 3rd grade too-- people simply wouldn't believe me when I told them Greenland was smaller than South America and Australia....I actually didn't know what the Mercator Projection was until the following year, but I did notice the lines of latitude stretched out the farther north you went and I used that to figure out that Greenland was no way anywhere near as big as either of those continents. The other thing I clearly remember was that people didn't believe me when I told them that that little hook part at the extreme north point of Minnesota (near Lake of the Woods) was the northernmost point in the 48 states.....noooo, they said, Maine is further north, see, it's higher up! Nevermind the fact that latitude lines are curved and clearly show northern Maine isn't as north as northernmost Minnesota is.

Ironically enough you might be better off on an island for more frequent bigger snowstorms. Try Nova Scotia....I know it's Canada but that place is awesome for both snowstorms/blizzards and tropical systems too. I went to Halifax once, it's a really pretty city. It's on a peninsula but it's much more island-like than continent-like because a peninsula has water on three sides, so it's three quarters of the way to being an island lol. Labrador is actually an island and might be even better because its further NE but I can't stand NFLD for various reasons (most of them political and environmental.)

Exactly! I kept telling my parents that when I was in 3rd grade and we lived in Brooklyn and they didn't believe me (they especially didn't believe me when I told them Brooklyn was on long island lol and they were adamant about it and told everyone-- he's just a kid and doesn't know what he's talking about, ignore him LOL), and my mom was a doctor, mind you, it wasn't like she was dumb in the least. People just don't notice (or maybe even care) about these things. The only reason I knew was because I was super fascinated by maps even I was that age and used to draw/sketch maps of the boroughs (and then long island when we moved there the following year) back when I was 8-9 years old.

Do you know that people in the city don't believe me when I tell them that Manhattan is an island and that Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island? They also don't believe that one can live in the city and yet also live by the beach..... they say, what beach? This is New York City, there are no beaches here. Brooklyn and Queens should just secede and join Nassau and Suffolk County and form our own city, let's call it Long Island City ;-)

Wow, that reminds me of a report I saw on Pattrn where they said that by 2100 only 1 of the last 21 Winter Olympics sites would still be able to hold them because of AGW.