LibertyBell

true, and a high of 103 in August in 2001, something that has very rarely happened. Besides that day, I think there's been only one other time NYC has hit 100 in August in my life and that was in 1983.

also ground level ozone, too many cars....

Today everyone is in the 70s-- except for NJ lol

I'm willing to find a way to drain the gulf of mexico to get rid of that humid crap. That would put an end to damaging hurricanes down there and violent severe weather outbreaks too. the dry heat of a westerly wind is much better.

hell no the humidity is MUCH worse than the heat, let's get the wonderful dry heat of a westerly breeze

There's a couple of other ones like that-- look up 2004 and 2014. These are typically very rainy summers, that's the only way to keep the temperatures down here. 1992 had a strong Pinatubo influence. The summers surrounding it were historically hot (both 1991 and 1993). 1994 and 1995 were also very hot. After 1996 and 1997 we had hotter summers again in 1998 and especially 1999. It basically went something like this 1990- moderately hot 1991- historically hot 1992- Pinatubo cooled 1993- historically hot 1994- early historically hot 1995- historically hot 1996- cool but very humid 1997- cool 1998- moderately hot 1999- historically hot 2000- cool 2001- cool 2002- historically hot 2003- cool but very humid (and a big black out on the hottest day) 2004- cool 2005- hot but onshore flow meant no extremely hot days

Sort of like December 1966 but a bigger event? 1966-67 a GREAT winter and it went out very snowy and very cold in March too.

Was that similar to the thundersnow event in December 1996? What a book end winter that was between December 1996 and April 1997 lol.

True we had some subzero cold in the early and middle 80s: Christmas 1980, January 1982, December 1983, January 1985. The wheels really fell off the wagon in the late 80s and especially the early 90s. Hell even when it was very cold (December 1989) it didn't snow much.

1977-78 was another winter that was great for a lot of people.

97-98 would have been the worst if it wasn't for that unexpected first day of spring snowfall, although 01-02 was a warmer winter and had the shortest period between first freeze and last freeze I've ever experienced. I had roses blooming until just before New Years and crocuses coming out in the last week of February lol

We had our latest snowfall on record that year too, April 19, 1983 1.5" here.

I had my biggest snowstorm I've ever experienced here in January 2016 (my only 30"+ snowstorm) so I would take it too. Plus some additional bonus snowfalls in February and the latest below zero temperature I've ever experienced (on Valentines Day morning!)

I noticed those are the only ones that have the temperature jump.

cloudy or sunny that day-- the lows were similar to 6-4-23 but the highs were lower

2015-16 even worse than 1982-83, same one big storm winter

what about super (+2) el ninos? I think only 1982-83, 1997-98, 2015-16 ?

I think this also happened to you in 2010-11 for the Boxing Day event.

Yes the high end el ninos create these jumps that accentuate its effects even more. It makes me wonder if these high end el ninos are increasing in frequency too.

1997: It was a chilly day in the East. The high temperature at Philadelphia International Airport was only 59 degrees, tying a record-low maximum for the date set back in 1881. The temperature at Middletown, Pennsylvania rose to 58 degrees, breaking the record-low maximum for the date of 59 degrees set back in 1915. Washington, DC only reached 58 degrees, breaking the old record-low maximum of 59 set back in 1915. Central Park in New York City only reached 61 degrees. 2002: An impressive heat burst at Amarillo, TX caused the temperature to jump to 90° at 3:21 am. The heat burst was accompanied by winds of 55 mph. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) wow I didn't know or remember this about 1997. What was our low that morning? Wild, 1915 had one of our largest late season snowfalls ever in the month of April. Heat bursts are one thing Texas is famous for, Kopperl Texas had a severe one when the temperature rose to 140 degrees and trees and even wooden doors were burned!

correct, this is more of a typical early summer pattern.

This pattern is nothing like May though, the temperatures are going to be warmer (mid to upper 70s) as opposed to the horror we had in May. This is just a wet humid summery pattern with showers from time to time.

Oh that sucks, that el nino was likely too strong for you.

So we need to find some way to prevent or block super el ninos from happening to keep the climate from having these large jumps? How long does the climate take to recover from these environmentally catastrophic super el ninos and has there any research been done to modify, weaken or block them from happening? By the way I see how 1982-83 affected the climate for the entire 80s (low snowfall decade) but 1997-98 seems to have had a shorter time before we recovered as the entire 2002-03 through 2004-5 period was quite snowy here. The next global baseline jump in temperatures occurred in 1997-1998 and was much larger than 1982-1983. So the coldest CONUS winter of this era was 2009-2010 which ranked at #22 coldest since 1895. The coldest Northeast winter of this era was 2014-2015 which ranked as #22 coldest.

Yes, we had bad winters like 1998-99 during the 1950s too. Winters which lack snow during DJF and deliver a parting shot in March have happened before and will happen again.