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Looks like it might be a state record or even a national record for a 24 hour period?

Wait lol look up what natural gas actually is..... it's a euphemism for methane LNG (liquified "natural" gas) = liquid methane

Humanity will survive sure, but perhaps not at a highly technological level.

Yep because people drive like normal so the most accidents happen with under 3 inches of snow.

Wow how much in that dark blue area near I-80 in NE PA south of Scranton? 1" in 2 hours? That could cause traffic problems.

Was this the official low at JFK?

Or stay on the outer edges.

The best way to chase it is to stay out of the heaviest bands.

Depends on what you mean for the start of winter. For me winter starts on December 21st. We could easily get an end of November snowstorm and then it thaws for a couple of weeks in December and then we get cold again in the latter part of December.

It can snow in both November and April-- we've seen 6"+ snowstorms in both months.

We've had quite a few La Ninas with average to above average snowfall totals.

They did say there were nonviolent ways of handling the problem. I think they could be tranquilized and relocated or tranquilized, sterilized and then relocated. There's a variety of methods to control populations. I like the idea of sterilization and relocation myself. I don't like the idea of humans deep in the wilderness because as human populations increase, there is less and less land left for nature. Now, if human populations stabilize that's a different story.

Sounds like Syracuse is a lot better than Watertown (although close to the edge of totality so 1.5 min of totality vs 3.75 min; maybe somewhere in between is even better.)

How's the weather up there in the first couple of weeks of April? Wondering where the best place would be to set up for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Thinking somewhere between Syracuse and Watertown as if now.

That being said, the good part is that it's predictable where the best bands will set up so if you really want to be in them, you know exactly what counties to live in.

Regardless those were both very snowy winters weren't they? 14-15 and 17-18 were both extremely backloaded winters too

Thanks Walt. I saw a report of about 0.1" icing from Sussex NJ and there was a report of 5.6" of snow from some town in the Southern Poconos and also near Altoona.

That sounds like we might be headed to a semi permanent la nina state (at least until average temperatures get re-calibrated.) However the enso response may be unconventional in terms of sensible weather because we are seeing major alterations in sea currents and SST in other parts of the world too (including the western Atlantic and the Gulf Stream.)

That was also a third year la nina

Was JFK's latest in 2001 Chris?

Thanks Walt, looks like the predictions were right, 3.5" around my part of the Poconos! Why did that area get more than areas to the north of there, Walt?

Hope it doesn't happen like the notorious heavy wet snow in October a few years back.

That brings in warmer air off the ocean, right, Don?

Wow first freeze wasn't until December in 2010? When was the latest-- 2001? Toronto's latest was 2004? That was a very cold and snowy winter.

Those creatures are super smart! I saw a video of one letting her kids play on a swing set in someone's back yard while she stood guard. After a few minutes she guided them out of the area. Another one showed how bears can open car doors to get at food. As long as the door is unlocked the bear can open it! Another one showed a bear carrying a bag of groceries in her mouth (lol-- likely trash) to feed her kids with. And now for the not so smart human creatures. In LA a guy was so busy on his cell phone that he literally bumped into a bear without knowing it and the bear looked at him quizically like-- DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! When he saw the bear finally, after getting his nose out of his phone, he let out a loud scream and ran the opposite way lol.