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The warming waters could also be a big factor where the arctic airmasses go. Our winters have been warming but did you notice they've been getting colder in Montana and Idaho, etc?
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and yet in 2016 itself we somehow got to below zero in NYC lol That was one winter of extremes from extreme warmth in December to a historic snowfall in January to extreme cold in February.
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I heard that 1888 was a year of vicious extremes but this is truly horrible. I wonder what was going on that year specifically to make it so extreme?
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Quantum computing will hold the real keys (to many problems), it's just frustrating that quantum computers are taking so long to develop. Quantum computers basically imitate natural processes on a much smaller scale which is why I'm so enthusiastic about them.
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I have a strong feeling the airports will be closed for a time. Safety first....
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True, however this is also the best time of the year to see the night sky because of how clear and clean it is you can see really deeply. I could even see the waning crescent up until 8:20 am, it's slender and curved like a backwards "C" in the southeast to southern sky and pretty high up. The sun is getting higher so it'll disappear into the sky pretty soon.
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I think this kind of droppage also happened in the March 1888 blizzard-- not sure how extreme that was but might have been even more than this.
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That could still happen occasionally the high was 10 degrees in Jan 1994 and 7 degrees in Jan 1985. That usually means suppressed systems so dry and cold though. In 1994 our very snowy pattern actually happened a few weeks after those below zero temps, before that it was mostly mixed precip and lots of freezing rain and sleet.
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Thanks that was another really good unpredicted snowstorm from that snowless/warm era lol.
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Right and it was there in the summer too-- it's basically a year round thing now. Lobster season is getting bad, TCs are forming and tracking farther north, etc.
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So this is all happening because of the same anomalously warm water. On a brighter note you gotta be excited about the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, I'm headed that way for it-- hoping the weather holds out since early April can be touch and go. Don't know which is a better spot for it-- Watertown or Syracuse lol.
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Yeah even that event was unexpected, it was supposed to be a frontal passage with some brief light rain/snow and then a wave developed and stalled out offshore.
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That was a nice event in years of warmth lol 6"+ events were very rare in that era-- that was the long duration wet snow to heavy snow event right? Was that the one where it snowed for like 36 hours in a very narrow area between Newark and the Hamptons?
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that south based block gotta go!
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Thanks I wondered if this was like a milder version of that month! I wonder if we will flip to a warmer pattern as extremely as we did that winter or if it will get milder but more tempered (so an all around less extreme version of the wild temperature swings of that winter)....ironic that 1989-90 had one of the longest periods between first and last temp in the single digits!
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I remember this for one of the reasons the models were often too warm for the 93-94 winter....remember they predicted so many snow to rain scenarios that winter and the snow always hung around longer than expected and we also had some extended mixing events. Now we also have to deal with warm waters and warm air over water that is affecting the storm tracks.
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Jan 20th is a big day for snowstorms in our new climate.
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Yes, dont drink that night lol. I had a friend who got badly injured because he was drinking at a work Christmas Party and he did all the right stuff (got a cab to go home, etc.) but unfortunately he broke his ankle when he got out of the cab right in front of his house by falling on the ice.
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Did you go there to chase this next snowstorm?
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Right and it's such a fine line in these patterns, the storm track is what makes or breaks a season.
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Haha no it's okay, I know there are practical reasons why sourcing energy from space is difficult to do, but I think we're on the brink of doing something big (on multiple fronts.) Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.....
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I remember those magazines and I loved them too! And I convinced my parents to get a subscription to Scientific American, Sky and Telescope and Astronomy magazine when I was in 8th grade!
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I like the Tip Over Point and their calculations for how much of the planet's resources humanity uses and we're using more than what the earth can produce so we are now using resources that were created in the distant past (in effect we're raiding the planet's savings account.) We started using more than what the planet can produce back in the 70s and now Tip Over Day is in July (and keeps getting earlier every year.)
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No I mean the sun is always producing energy, we just need to be able to source that energy from space where it is unblocked by the Earth...the sun itself is not intermittent, the Earth is what makes that happen.
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What was the cause for the extreme cold that made that monthly average a historic 25.5....was that the coldest December on record by average temp, Don?
