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Here's an idea.....why didn't they maintain the old sensors as a back up check against the ASOS? I generally don't like ASOS, but I guess they wanted to automate everything. ASOS has a few faults....one of them is "unknown precip type" during mixed precip events and the famous snow, fog when there is no fog and aside from the temperature issue, it doesn't record the wind speeds properly either. I don't see any accuracy superiority of ASOS over the older equipment, so this was clearly all about automation not accuracy.

I've been planning out my eclipse chase for Monday April 8th 2024 and the best place to go for me is going to be either Syracuse or Watertown. I'm going to start out at Wilkes Barre, PA after driving there from my PA house and getting on I-81. Syracuse only has 1 min of 29 min totality but is about an hour closer from PA than Watertown is, but for that extra travel time I get 3 min and 39 sec of totality! I wonder if eclipse totality looks any different from the edge of the totality zone to being right in the middle of it? Either way if I'm going to drive 2hours 19min, I might as well drive 3hours 22min. The eclipse starts at 3:22 pm at both places. I was surprised to see the average high temp on that date for Syracuse is 54! That's pretty nice, I wonder what the average high temp for that day is in Watertown? Obviously cloud cover matters the most, and Syracuse might have a higher chance of clear skies than Watertown, which is right by Lake Ontario? I figured I should leave my house around 10 AM, 1 hour to get to I-81 in Wilkes Barre, and then 4 more hours to get to whichever of those places, get there by 3 PM at the latest.

I've been planning out my eclipse chase for Monday April 8th 2024 and the best place to go for me is going to be either Syracuse or Watertown. I'm going to start out at Wilkes Barre, PA after driving there from my PA house and getting on I-81. Syracuse only has 1 min of 29 min totality but is about an hour closer from PA than Watertown is, but for that extra travel time I get 3 min and 39 sec of totality! I wonder if eclipse totality looks any different from the edge of the totality zone to being right in the middle of it? Either way if I'm going to drive 2hours 19min, I might as well drive 3hours 22min. The eclipse starts at 3:22 pm at both places. I was surprised to see the average high temp on that date for Syracuse is 54! That's pretty nice, I wonder what the average high temp for that day is in Watertown? Obviously cloud cover matters the most, and Syracuse might have a higher chance of clear skies than Watertown, which is right by Lake Ontario? I figured I should leave my house around 10 AM, 1 hour to get to I-81 in Wilkes Barre, and then 4 more hours to get to whichever of those places, get there by 3 PM at the latest.

Wow, maybe Bismarck can get to 0 or lower....that would be the latest that's ever happened!

we'll be in the mid 30s even here in SW Nassau so close to freezing !

wasn't Yesterday a Beatles song? what is it with this wind-- it kicked up my allergies again

Yeah we can't really say the oceans are warming everywhere when we have such a large chunk that are actually cooling down. How bad would climate change have to get to completely end this cooler water and make even the ocean subsurface warm?

isn't this similar to April 19-20, 1983, when there was like 2 inches of snow followed by heavy rain? I keep thinking that was a coastal hugger too

Great union of forces, the lawyer who beat Chevron and the union organizer who beat Amazon!

wow that looks like the GFS from about a week ago lol that someone posted here. Accumulating snowfall to sea level based on those? Temps in the mid 30s even here? How similar would this be to what happened on April 19-20, 1983? I keep hoping for someone to post maps and snowfall totals from that storm.....

How close will snow get? I will be in the Poconos so hoping to see some accumulating snow at 2000 ft just south of I-80

Chris, where can this data be found and is it possible to upload it to an external desktop program to save the data and to put it into a spreadsheet and can similar data be found for Long Island and other regions?

Not to mention that the animal farming industry needs to be sharply curtailed too.

Yes-- 1.5C is a pipe dream but capping it at 2C would be really good. I thought the center point of the research indicated that we're headed to 2.2C though.... what changed? And how much of a difference would there be between 2C and 2.2C in terms of real world impacts?

The Yankees lose in that kind of weather because it's much harder to hit home runs

It's reasonable, I expect Staten Island to be similar to Newark, where it hit 88. I don't understand how Central Park only hit 79 when 80 was reached even on Long Island. There isn't even any foliage there right now.

Crazy, it got to 80 here near Sunrise Highway!

90?! wow, that was a positive bust It didn't even make it 80 at NYC and hit 80 here in Nassau County even on the south shore!

and Australia had record wildfires and an extreme drought just a few years ago

Good question.... what changed to cause this big spike in the SOI?

80 in April isn't that unusual. If you go over the last, say 30 years, I would think about half of those Aprils have seen a high of 80+ on at least one day.

That storm has trended north, a few days ago it was a coastal storm with snow in our interior suburbs

Thanks Don, what's the storm total there the past few days? Over an inch? NYC on the other hand has not seen an inch or more of snow this late in April since 1983 (April 19, 1983).

Sorry to hear that. If you have time please share what he gave you, I've ran through everything from Benadryl to Claritin to Zyrtec....nothing seems to be working.

Yeah this is a serious issue, especially for those of us who have heart issues as it is. Today was our first day in the 70s here on the south shore It actually felt better this afternoon than it was yesterday and especially last night. For some weird reason my allergies are always at their worst very late at night and very early in the morning.