LibertyBell

Looks like the chances are more likely it will rain (even inland) rather than go offshore?

Don how did Dec 2022 make this list up at 4? It didn't snow in any really populated megalopolis city? Also has anyone wrote to them complaining about the error of the map for Jan 2016, there was a large stripe of 30+ snow that went west to east from Harrisburg to Allentown right to JFK and Oceanside....they have us in 20-30, it should be in the "red zone"?

The hilarious thing is, with climate change, heating our homes may become much less of a necessity within a few decades. I turn my heat completely off now a few days every winter and even open my windows. This is what I find so hypocritical about the media-- on the one hand they get so excited when it gets warm in the winter and you can tell they absolutely hate snow, on the other hand they also keep complaining about climate change. My anger about climate change is more towards the corruption and lying of corporations and how greedy and evil they are (they are truly psychopathic)....but the media itself is pretty bad when they want to have their cake and eat it too. If they love warm winters so much they can't be complaining about climate change.

I think in terms of paradigm shifts they do happen within a few decades. Progress isn't a straight line (evolution isn't either), there's a long time where nothing happens and then a sudden rapid seismic shift and then a new plateau. Evolution worke the same way but to get evolution to work rapidly, you historically first need a mass extinction event and then nature rapidly fills those specialized environments with new species that can survive under new conditions (on evolutionary timescales, 100,000 years is considered "rapid.")

I think it's more like realizing that the fuel being used is flammable and the rocket is getting warmer and looking for alternatives before the ship explodes. There are many different possibilities and it's interesting you used this analogy because nuclear fusion would probably be the most efficient most environmentally friendly fuel source that rockets could use.

For maximum extent though Jan 1996 PD2 and February 1983 rank at the top for megalopolis blizzards. None of the other snowstorms we've had have delivered the entire megalopolis such high snowfall totals.

Jan 2016 was stronger than either and should have been the third Cat 5 blizzard but the NESIS people didn't properly account for the high totals around here.

that's why we need a very strong el nino

The problem is the lack of even an average cold airmass. Aside from the arctic shot in late December every other "cold" airmass has been at least 5 degrees above normal.

Definitely....cold beer (at least something's cold.)

It happened in Philly though in 1997-98 so if it can happen there it can happen here. Maybe not this year but eventually (and probably in our lifetimes.)

I think this all will blend into the bigger problem of conserving natural resources, they all have common answers.

I like your point of view! It's more than "just" climate change though, we need to find a way to use resources more efficiently, otherwise we will quickly run out of what the planet has stored (since we're already far exceeding what the planet produces, we are taking it out of the planet's "savings account" so to speak/type.)

https://www.overshootday.org/ It's called Earth Overshoot Day-- we passed the tipping point in 1970 This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28 Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

Maybe we'll get a supernova explosion to get people excited.

It's that plus the mass extinction event humanity began with the industrial age. The industrial age gave us a short unsustainable boost in productivity but unless we go in a different direction, it will also destroy us.

Awesome lol-- there's also this https://www.overshootday.org/ It's called Earth Overshoot Day-- we passed the tipping point in 1970 This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28 Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

https://www.overshootday.org/ It's called Earth Overshoot Day-- we passed the tipping point in 1970 This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 28 Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

Oh that was sleet? The sun came out right after that. I see it's snowing in Boston lol.

Those of us who experienced this will remember this storm forever, it was the only HECS between 1978 and 1996

It's the anniversary of the January 1996 blizzard! I think people should remember that....

Only good thing is the California drought is finally coming to an end and no more wild fires recently.

I mean it's also pollution and other factors but this is in general true. You cannot have an infinite population on a finite surface-- this is why the rich are looking into going to space. Fertility is also going down (not a bad thing at all.) We exceeded the tipping point in 1970. Right now we use the amount of resources that would need 5 earths to be regenerated every year. Do we have 5 earths to draw these resources from? No....so we use up what was accumulated millions of years ago.

remember Nestor from ancient Greek mythology? it's estimated old king Nestor lived to 90 or 100? He even survived the Trojan war lol.

awesome lol misery loves company