LibertyBell

wow this is amazing that the 2002-03 average winter temp was so close to 1993-94 yet 1993-94 gets so much more attention. We had more snow here in 2002-03 and the snowstorms (well PD2) was bigger and the snow season lasted longer too!

didnt get to freezing at JFK or SW Nassau either, but thats likely to happen next week

Having said what I said about getting most of our snow in 1 storm being a strong possibility this winter, I do have to put a little fly in this particular ointment.....the winter you're specifying, 2016-17, came after a super el nino, 2015-16 and la ninas following el ninos tend to be snowy dont they? I give the examples of 1995-96 and 2010-11

We can take a look at 2005-06 too, it was warm as hell but NYC still ended up with 40 inches of snow mostly courtesy of one big storm

isn't it equal chances of either a below or above normal snowfall winter even if temps are above normal? Thats another reason why it's a bad idea to use a Boston forecast for NYC. We have had, more than a few winters where we had an entire season's worth of snow in one storm. So you could actually have a 40 inch snowfall winter here with an average winter temp of 40 F. Boston can't have a winter where one storm makes up their entire yearly average like we can-- because their yearly average is 42 inches while ours is in the 20s. That actually makes it far easier for NYC to have above normal snowfall than it is for Boston. Just need one big storm to do it for us.

but 2002-03 was colder which shows why its underrated, and snowier and much longer too

what were the winter average temperatures in 1993-94 and 1995-96? 2002-03 being the coldest really brings home the point that it was so underrated. We had a snowy April too

enso only has a 20% impact on our weather, nao blocking is far more important. 2010-11 was another even stronger la nina with a lot of snow. There are other examples like 1955-56 and 2017-18

So I decided to read a piece that I know would be full of lies and excuses and it's laughable how dismissive this guy is of climate change, going so far as to say "there has been no increase of wild fires since 1985" I mean wtf.... his case for climate change "realism" is vastly unrealistic The Case for Climate-Change Realism | National Affairs

The worst feeling in the world has to be trying to turn your furnace or boiler on when it's sub 50 inside and realizing it doesn't work. So you need a plumber to come and fix or even replace it, which will cost an arm and a leg and they're all backed up and can't do it for a week. That happened to me, not the sub 50 part, because I can't tolerate cold below 70 without heat lol but a few years ago I needed to get my boiler replaced and all I had was my space heaters to keep my bedroom warm while the rest of the house was damn cold.

Wait your skies cleared before mine did....how? What time did you see it?

This kind of makes his point of space colonization seem like something we will need to do regardless.

I've been awake all night for the eclipse but it was raining here until 3 am and still cloudy at 4:30 past the maximum point of the eclipse. The clouds only started to clear about 5 minutes ago (4:40-4:45 am) and the moon is like 25-30 pct lighted in the NW sky about 30 degrees up

Dutch and British East India Companies were horrible, they exploited native people, stole their land, etc, the first multinational corporations. Their greed and the horrors they did is the stuff of legend

It's like chemotherapy to cure cancer, the longer you wait the tougher it will be.

2010 was much hotter

80, November 15th 1993....latest it ever happened

70 is preferable to that

ENSO state only has a 20% of an impact on our weather, there are other more important factors

water is warm

It's so weird because I remember LGA got mixed precip and JFK got snow, and we had a lot of snow around here, really wet heavy snow with branches coming down and treacherous driving conditions

sounds like 1989

exactly, this is why we had a snowstorm here in November 2012 a week after Sandy and the waters were really warm then too

What the heck happened in Vancouver? That was horrendous! I heard that enso is only responsible for about 20% of CONUS weather and this would've happened in other enso states too (maybe not to this degree.) Also how similar is this to the patterns we had in Fall 1989 and Fall 1998?

he buys what he wants to happen, thats why we call him Rainman. Just not as smart as Tom Cruise was in that movie lol