Yes MY ONLY 30 INCH SNOWSTORM EVER AND PROBABLY WON'T SEE ANOTHER ONE.
I can't even think of another snowstorm that could possible dump 30 inches in a straight line from Allentown to Oceanside lol.
The only thing that was remotely similar to that was February 1983 (both in very strong el ninos) that dumped 26 inches in Allentown and 22 inches at JFK.
That 30 inches on 3 inches of liquid was juiced by CC extra moisture.
I really wish there was a way to adjust the numbers like they did for the January 2016 snowstorm.
Remember when they did that? It was originally slightly behind January 2006 and then adjusted upward later.
There is a scientific way of doing this using nearby stations.
It's hard to believe Central Park being 5 degrees cooler than me but here we are.
I'll also note that even when we went completely overcast here for an hour I was still 3 degrees hotter than Central Park's highest temperature of the day!
Yep we're already running a global experiment lol.
If you look back at the 80s, even though we didn't get a lot of big snowstorms, we did get extremely cold the likes of which we just don't see anymore. Just look at all these below zero arctic outbreaks:
Christmas 1980
January 1982
December 1983
January 1985
and there was one of our coldest Decembers on record December 1989
Not a lot of snow but definitely plenty of cold.
There's not even any rain to keep the park wet, it has to be all about shade. JFK hit 92, I hit 94, it was a legit hot day, no reason for Central Park to be 88.
The only comparable snowstorms I can think of occurred in the 1870s. I wonder what caused that snowstorm and cold so many decades after the planet had already started to warm?