LibertyBell

Maybe we'll have snow squalls in May again like we had a few years ago.

Big snow squall in the Poconos! Sky is pitch black-- my sister is there and telling me all about it! Blinding snow squall!

Colder than April 1982 or April 1995?

Chris, any prediction on when our last freeze might be for NYC/JFK/EWR? Early April? Any snow chances then too?

huh it's been sunny here since 9 am not a cloud in the sky

weird, a 5 degree difference between EWR and NYC for the low? I wonder why? Don, did JFK get into the teens? Also how did EWR get 12.8" and NYC only got 9.6"? The other airports were even lower (8")-- and I thought ISP had more snow (more snow further to the east)?

teens in April in 1982 wow did NYC get into the teens too? I dont see why not, since Newark got down to 16 and 17. 23 on 4/5/1995 is pretty cold too, I remember that dry cold shot well.

its good to see that the number of snowy winters is much higher than the number of cold ones. if you go by snowy winters (30"+ seasonal snowfall, you get 7 snowy vs 6 nonsnowy.)

does it even matter what kind of el nino it is? would even a weak one create a new baseline?

it's not putting a dent in global temps, which are still going up.

we've also had some incredibly cold weather during la ninas- winters of 1915-16 and 2010-11 come to mind, but they usually come after el ninos.

what was the August we had the big regional blackout? was that 2003 or 2004? Hottest day of the year-- the high was 95 or 96.

you can have snow in early April and still a warm April thereafter.

2018 would be awesome-- snow in April is always memorable!

Cooling around Greenland waters is because of ice melt right-- and the la nina standing wave in the Pacific is because of rapid warming of the West Pac heating up?

Economic pressure will stop fossil fuel consumption as renewable are about at equal cost now and will get cheaper while fossil fuels will only get more expensive.

wtf thats DOME C?! Thats the same place where it gets so cold that excrement freezes before it leaves the body?!

It just happened, accompanied with lightning and thunder

Same-- for some reason these seem to always happen in the middle of the night this early in the season.

Right, this alone should have indicated that April 1997 would be a bust down here. Somehow the Jersey shore ended up getting 6-8 inches out of it though.

By the way for anyone who doesn't know-- Concordia Station is actually Dome C. It is a most amazing place with skies as clear and stars as brilliant as what the Hubble Telescope experiences (or closest to it.) Vostok station has the coldest temps but Dome C is not far behind. Even colder than either is Dome A (which stands for Argus) which is at the top of the Antarctic Plateau, although it might be rivalled by Dome F (which stands for Fuji) and Ridge A.

Looks like we should also be worrying about Antarctica melting.

I dont use avg monthly temps as good indicators of extreme heat, it's better to use extreme heatwaves. March 1990 stands out to me as the hottest weather I've ever seen in March with 3 consecutive days of 85+ getting close to 90 during the middle of the month. Ditto for April 2002 when we hit 90+ three straight days and almost 4, and topped out at 96, matching a similar heatwave in April 1976 (but in 2002 the heat lasted all throughout the spring and summer and even into early fall.)

the westerly flow is much better which is why I'm a big advocate of climate engineering, we need to get on this sooner, not later. There is no other way to stop what's going to happen if we don't.

I really want to monitor Antarctic temps at Vostok, Dome C and the South Pole like I used to but the two programs I used no longer work. One used weatherunderground data but since TWC took them over and instituted their greedy crapitalistic model they charge so much for getting the data that none of my programs use them anymore-- the only one which does charges 30 dollars a month (!) and the other one, YoWindow, no longer works because it required Flash and Adobe made that obsolete. Is there any way to monitor those locations in a desktop program anymore and store the data in a spreadsheet?