LibertyBell

no one lives on Plum Island do they? Thats where the military had their horrendous virus experiment facility which was shuttered and moved to Kansas if I remember correctly.

what is it that makes some storms mostly snowy on an east wind and others arent? Especially in late February and early March when we have our coldest SST I distinctly remember the late Feb 2010 blockbuster being all snow on a southerly wind.

December was meh, honestly we would have been far better off with a +NAO in December and save the -NAO to when the Pacific was better, namely January and February.

I think the chances of 10 inches total snowfall in March is getting less and less. It would be good to get to near average snowfall in the month...5-6 inches, but I would say even that is doubtful.

Fact is, as we argue over December or March being real winter months, the only real winter months for us are January and February. If we don't get at least average snowfall in BOTH, we are usually screwed-- December and March are both toss up months and more likely to underproduce especially in urban areas. We usually need at least 2 months of average snowfall to have a decent winter and that needs to be January and February. Bigger snowstorms are more likely in December than March, so it's better to have a snowy December than a snowy March. We had the snowy December last season and you saw how much better we did.

Only 65 in Feb 2018? That sucks-- I wonder how that happened when LGA hit 80-- strong southerly wind all day? I dont remember Feb 2017 at all-- what temps did the other airports and NYC hit that day? Interesting that after both warm ups we had significant March snows. And wow JFK hit 65 in Feb 1996? That was a very cold and snowy month-- I don't remember that- I only remember the three week break in January after the big Blizzard when we hit 66 and had severe thunderstorms.

Yep, this isn't a VD 2007 repeat or even St Paddy's Day 2007 for that matter.

Yep starting to feel cold. I wish this would've waited for the morning.

Good point

Oh I remember that storm sucked, I dont think anyone on Long Island got anything, north shore, south shore didn't matter in December 2005. We had a gradient storm of a different kind in February 2006 when NYC got 26 inches and out here we got like 13 lol. I actually dont remember January 1994 for anything but ice lol I dont remember February 1999 for anything at all.

I'm not sure how many want jackpots, but most people probably want a storm that doesnt change to rain and dumps at least 6 inches area wide..... at least 10 inches area wide would be ideal but beggars cant be choosers

Yup I saw a forecast today for like 1" of snow in NYC and 8-9" as close as Yonkers

Don dont strongly positive regimes of this time generally last around 6 weeks or so before breaking down? Also that 69 temp at JFK....was February 2018 the last time JFK hit 70 in February, and did it get to 75 that day there?

It's easier to do when it's not this active (like in the middle of the night) I literally get a bunch of notifications within a few seconds of each other during active times.

But wouldn't you consider all kinds of gradients....like what I mentioned in the previous post, you can have longitude gradients too, where JFK gets a lot more than NYC does, we had that in January and a few other times I remember. I think that's more common than the latitude gradient across the city.

I'm trying to remember the greatest difference I can think of....I think it was December 2009 when NYC had 10 inches of snow and JFK had 15 inches, so that was a gradient storm with the further east you go getting you more snow lol In that respect the January storm was a gradient storm too, because NYC had 8 inches while JFK had 13 inches. But the north/south gradient storms are actually less common....I can't remember too many of those because the distance between NYC and JFK isn't enough to create a large gradient of that kind (its more east west than it is north south)

I hate winter storm warnings and just the terminology "winter storm" because snow and ice can occur in any season besides summer. I think we need a separate warning system for snow and it needs to start at either 10 or 12 inches of snow and get rid of the terminology of " winter storms completely. Keep everything separate-- snow storms, ice storms and frozen starts (which would be a mixture)

I'm going to use the old line and ask.....aren't all storms gradient storms? lol

wow thats interesting, it stayed just below freezing here both days. It must matter where on the south shore you are, the farther east you go the higher the temps. Another example is March 1993, when JFK got 12 inches of snow and Oceanside got 10 inches....as soon as you went east of Oceanside the amounts dropped off

Russia, China and Cuba are just as bad letting fossil fuel cartels run their entire political systems. It's not about politics actually, it's about letting the rich control everything. The rich need to be devalued so their money means nothing when it comes to power-- in short the influence of money needs to be completely removed from politics, because money corrupts and eventually leads to oligarchy, which the US either is already or is well on the way to becoming according to several studies

thanks! I'm looking at it now as well as passing it on to others who invest in green stocks

companies need to be kept out of politics and be regulated so they aren't allowed to get too big or have too much power-- and when they do, break them up

best thing is the one with a strong welfare state and cap birth rates to 2 per family also keep religion out of politics thats more important than most people realize

we should be using more nuclear power not methane (I refuse to use the euphemism "natural" gas) we should cut greenhouse gases AND sanction and punish both China and India until they are forced to do the same and Brazil for what they're doing to the Amazon

lucky 13th month lol