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March 24 2010 is interesting, we had a very hot spring and summer that year, record breaking as a matter of fact.

also a warm up coming with this rain, temperatures in the 50s after the two day cold shot

1717 - What was perhaps the greatest snow in New England history commenced on this date. During a ten day period a series of four snowstorms dumped three feet of snow upon Boston, and the city was snowbound for two weeks. Up to six feet of snow was reported farther to the north, and drifts covered many one story homes. (David Ludlum) I wonder how much we got from this storm and in this historic winter?

I hope not, I think squirrels are probably more responsible for it. Wasn't our big outage back in August 2004 (I hope I got the year right) blamed on squirrels or a squirrel?

Yes, it's probably either that or extinction. On the Kardashev scale it's predicted we would have some version of a warp drive in about 7,500 years but with the pace of technology I think it wouldn't take that long.

Yes, we better be. 250 million years or even 250 years is a hell of a long time in technological evolution.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01395#:~:text=Here we show that in,knowledge of heat and work. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01395 Perhaps not Don, this is interesting (I intuitively thought this might be the case because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle): Fluctuations of thermodynamic observables, such as heat and work, contain relevant information on the underlying physical process. These fluctuations are however not taken into account in the traditional laws of thermodynamics. While the second law is extended to fluctuating systems by the celebrated fluctuation theorems, the first law is generally believed to hold even in the presence of fluctuations. Here we show that in the presence of quantum fluctuations, also the first law of thermodynamics may break down. This happens because quantum mechanics imposes constraints on the knowledge of heat and work. To illustrate our results, we provide a detailed case-study of work and heat fluctuations in a quantum heat engine based on a circuit QED architecture. We find probabilistic violations of the first law and show that they are closely connected to quantum signatures related to negative quasi-probabilities. Our results imply that in the presence of quantum fluctuations, the first law of thermodynamics may not be applicable to individual experimental runs.

I think it should be pretty apparent we have switched to a drier pattern. CC is all about extremes so we will probably be switching back and forth between very wet (already happened) to very dry (happening now) back to very wet again.

I thought it would be 1966-67 since that was such an excellent late season too, but looks like 1955-56 was even better.

1956 was the best late season bar none, 21.1 inches in March followed by 4.2 inches in April, a total of 25.3 inches!

Thanks Chris, do you have a similar list for JFK?

The figure I saw for earth becoming uninhabitable was 250 million years into the future (this assuming no AGW.)

Energy can be created or destroyed, it's called virtual energy (and virtual particles) that can flit into and out of existence over very short time scales, but in any conventional sense it can't be created or destroyed. I'm sure people are fully aware of this with regards to fossil fuels too, but they simply do not care.

Yes they were exterminated the same way the Passenger Pigeon was. Humans have done horrendous things through history both to each other and to our fellow animals. For some really stupid reasons like feathers in hats. The people doing this must have been really pissed off when the women's rights movement decided to oppose this barbaric behavior by using fake fathers. This primitive behavior wasn't isolated to the United States either, barbaric colonizers who came to New Zealand decided to murder flightless parrots who live there in the middle of the night while they were sleeping with large nets and hammered them to death. These birds mate for life and refused to leave their mates while this mass murder was occurring. This in addition to the feral pests (cats, rats, etc.) who also preyed upon the native wildlife. Those flightless parrots were thought to be extinct, but a small population of them were found on an island which was blissfully free of humans and they are now vigorously protected. Ugly nearly hairless apes (as in humans) have always been jealous of other creatures who are much more attractive than they are and have always wanted what they have. Those are the facts. In a bit of poetic justice, we have large flocks of parakeets here in New York. These are called Monk Parakeets. They are extremely smart and very social and huddle near electrical wires for warmth during the winter.

snow is still possible in April but it seems most cases are after snowy winters? This is an interesting test case since, although the winter didn't have much snow it was at least somewhat cold. Snow in April after less snowy winters were on the minor side-- for example April 1990, April 1997, April 2000, April 2006. All were less than 2 inches.

spring birds are highly active though and nest building already

They were off for January 2016 too. Do they use some sort of computerized mapping device to make these? Perhaps they could feed all the data into it (not leaving anything out) and let the computer use some sort of data smoothing curve to generate a best fit map?

54-55 at JFK, they always run out way ahead but it looks like a sea breeze might be coming in shortly.

There were no scientific instruments to measure it of course but comparative analyses can be done between eras using tree rings and arctic ice core samples and even observing sedimentary rocks to determine when the largest storms or other events in a given era occurred. There's a whole field called paleoclimatology that is based on this. Using paleoclimatology we have been able to determine a giant hurricane (Cat 4?) hit our area in PreColumbian times (somewhere between the 1200s and 1400s.) There is also evidence of a megatsunami possibly caused by a meteoroid strike (perhaps the same one that created Chesapeake Bay), it broke off into two pieces and one part hit down in the DelMarva and the other part hit near Toms River, the resulting megatsunami could have been over 50 feet high and left tell tale signs in the sedimentary bedrock of our near coastal waters.

I love them but that forum as a whole is like a clique. We talk in the CC forum or the main forum. They used to be more present in the sports forum-- they are missed there.

And in the middle, during the Mesozoic, when the dinosaurs roamed, there was a lot more oxygen in the atmosphere and that's why all creatures back then were HUGE. Back before the Cambrian before there was multicellular life the earth didn't have any oxygen, only CO2 and N2. We needed plants and blue green algae (not really algae) to convert some CO2 into O2 as O2 is highly reactive with rocks and without plants would be removed from the atmosphere very quickly.

crazy, so we had two 8 inch snowstorms that winter? that's like a historic season compared to now (and compared to back then too.)

it was mostly above freezing even during the storm (33-34) and it lasted 36 hours and it really started accumulating at night. a big surprise, I'm sure that storm wouldn't have been predicted with today's models either. Is there any way to run today's models on past storms to see how they would have done?

la nina or el nino? snowy decembers usually portend well for us either way (see 2002-03).

spring birds have been here for a few days and already pairing up and building nests.