LibertyBell

Wow I worked outside today and it never got cloudy here at all, and hit 55 around 2 PM.

I thought it was today?

lmao I've been doing that too-- this is awesome a lot better than looking for fictitious snowstorms that will probably not happen =\

Apparently this goes back to the ancient Romans...yet another "tradition" from a dead ancient culture we need to get rid of. I also like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar The World Calendar is a 12-month, perennial calendar with equal quarters.[1] Each quarter begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday. The quarters are equal: each has exactly 91 days, 13 weeks, or 3 months. The three months in each quarter have 31, 30, and 30 days respectively. Each quarter begins with the 31-day months of January, April, July, or October. The World Calendar also has the following two additional days to maintain the same new year days as the Gregorian calendar. Worldsday The last day of the year following Saturday 30 December. This additional day is dated "W" and named Worldsday, a year-end world holiday. It is followed by Sunday, 1 January in the new year. Leapyear Day This day is similarly added at the end of the second quarter in leap years. It is also dated "W" and named Leapyear Day. It is followed by Sunday, 1 July within the same year. The World Calendar treats Worldsday and Leapyear Day as a 24-hour waiting period before resuming the calendar again. These off-calendar days, also known as "intercalary days", are not assigned weekday designations. They are intended to be treated as holidays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar I like this calendar, it's well balanced....13 months of 28 days each. So as balanced as a calendar can get... of course you have to add an extra day in the last month to get to 365 days (and two extra days in the last month for leap years.) The funny thing is that every month would have a Friday in the 13th....that would sure make things interesting!

Exactly! Especially since January seems to suck now!

That would be sad....I saw the locals have us hitting 40 on Tuesday and the cold air doesn't really drive in until Tuesday night. For example, Tuesday morning is still in the mid 30s and above freezing. I know you know my position on the 31st day....months shouldn't have them, it fouls up the data record because months can't be compared mathematically to each other if some have more days than others. And for some unexplained reason February only has 28 days which really fouls up comparisons to other months. I would give February 30 days and then the first four months of the year would all have 30 days, which would make it a more level playing field at least.

Did he blow a forecast or something? I could see the people in the NE forum doing that back in the 1700s....or even today lol

Depends on what kind of models you were checking out lmao

la ninas after el ninos are our snowiest and coldest winters, the same thing happened in 10-11 too

First of three straight 50+ days. It got to 55 here. Hopefully we build enough of an advantage over 1932 to insure against the closer to average temps on Tuesday. (It will still average above normal because of overnight lows.)

Hopefully we can beat 1932, I dont want this to be another one of those months where a fake 31st day keeps us from the record.

it's been sunny all day today though

15-16 was much like 82-83, just warmer (except for that memorable VD though.)

Yeah we were close to normal because of that one storm, but people in the city and west of there had snowfall in the teens. That was an annoying winter because it had the potential to be more.

I think it'll be okay, we'll reach 40 during the day and the real cold air probably won't come in until Tuesday night. The 31st of any month is "fake" anyway lol.

Yeah probably next year or the year after.... Fits right in with our boom or bust new climate.

Since we shift normals every 30 years, I think the absolute temperature will probably either remain steady or slowly rise, but it may change relative to the current "normals" This will have (already has) had dramatic impacts on sea life.

We won't get another low of freezing or below this entire month, so that's another 1932 record we should beat.

They've been underdone in the short term this winter-- I see the local forecasts are now going for 3 straight 50+ days too. Over the longer range they may be overdone though.

Didn't Australia have its driest and hottest year on record and massive wildfires that killed a billion animals just a few years ago? What changed?

strong el ninos are good for us because we get our biggest snowstorms in them

Three straight days of 50+ upcoming, let's beat that Jan 1932 record!

high end moderate to strong is good, very strong is okay, if you like big snowstorms, especially for the south shore of Long Island, which had two of its biggest storms ever in February 1983 and January 2016.

ah I love stuff like that-- makes for some fun campfire stories! Getting some snow next week would be even more fun though!