LibertyBell

Yes but Staten Island and Brooklyn had similar totals to Manhattan and most of Long Island.

I think it's accelerating and will continue to accelerate as we will see the Antarctic ice start to melt at a faster pace too- there are hints that might already be underway. Australia might be uninhabitable within a few decades.

when did the change downwards begin? the 1980s? our crewed space program been stagnant since the 1970s too.

it's only a matter of time until we see a rapid loss of ice in the Antarctic, like we've been seeing in the Arctic

18 people dead, half a billion animals dead, worst forest fires and poorest air quality in their recorded history, 15 million acres burnt- no where to go but the beaches.....

what happened to all the cold January forecasts? Forky seemed like he was agreeing with them before.

Some of the long range forecasts had a cold/snowy February. How do you feel about that?

I like early April snowfalls, so bring it on!

JFK undermeasured even back then!

well right now one third of all fuel being used is renewable, the projections are by 2030 it'll be two thirds and net zero will be attained by 2050. Wind and solar are the fastest areas of growth in the job market and they are also the cheapest sources of fuel. The wind farms being built are hundreds of miles offshore where the winds are much stronger than they are on land.

the fourth 4"+ storm that month!

we'll have a huge problem if the entire ice sheet up there melts. Don did you see the new projections for NJ of 1 ft sea level rise by 2030 (over 2000 levels) and a 6 ft rise over those levels by 2100?

No, the way it works is all new housing will be heated by renewables. Good riddance to both oil and gas and their ridiculous prices anyway and their health issues. Going all EV will dramatically improve air quality. Fossil fuels are called dirty for a reason. Dont need to worry about gas leaks or pipeline explosions or fracking quakes anymore either, which seem to be rampant in other parts of the nation. I like that we're building a few hundred miles of wind farms off the coast of Long Island, not only are they good for energy but they should also lessen the impact of hurricanes hitting the coast.

It doesn't actually feed 8 billion people, it just feeds those in power and it's highly addictive. Most of the planet is in abject poverty.

Yes nuclear is better than gas or any other fossil fuel. Hopefully a lot safer than it was back in the 80s.... looking back on what was going on back then makes me realize why it has such a stain on it.

They undermeasured/estimated most of the 2009-10 storms too, aside from the big snowicane.

is that in April?

Ugh, I just tuned in and it's that Kelly chick on there who says "as well" at the end of every sentence. I feel like sending a nasty tweet asking her if she ever passed grade school or does she have an addiction to saying "as well" at the end of every sentence? It's just as nauseating as saying "like" all the time. Just stop talking and end the sentence with whatever was said before "as well." I consciously refuse to watch or listen to anyone who uses that phrase.

it's all about net.... if the losses in the summer outnumber the gains in the winter year after year it wont matter. You're seeing the effects of that now with parts of the Keys going permanently under water. The King Tide came in a few months ago and never left.

What do you think of this new commercial being put out by the industry about greenhouse gas emissions being half of what they were a generation ago? I oppose natural gas (it's really methane) because of fracking and pipelines, thankfully we have placed a moratorium on them here in NY and are going with wind, solar and hydro. I'd rather have nuclear, but we also had a lot of problems with the Shoreham plant on Long Island, and the power company was eventually charged with racketeering. The rates got extremely high when LILCO was trying to build that plant. The Indian Point power plant was also shut down recently because of issues. These plants shouldn't be near big cities or near fault lines, as Fukushima demonstrated.

and 2 snow events in April, after 4 of them in March!

I think it happened before the 1993-94 winter.... I remember the Dec 26 1993 storm as being the only all snow event that winter for us lol. Was a low moving up the coast developing east of ACY dropping 4-5 inches of snow here. I remember a coast to coast low that went east off of Norfolk that dropped 4-6 inches also, do you remember what year that might have been? I distinctly remember it because coast to coast lows passing south of us are pretty rare.

Wow I wish I could remember that! 2 inches of snow in 20 minutes in Oceanside?! 17 inches of snow in 3 hours in April 1997? Wow that was a big bust down here!

You have a data treasure trove! Any idea what years/dates two of my snowfall memories occurred in? One I know was in December, I just dont know what year....somewhere between the mid 80s and early 90s I think An arctic front passed through during the day with frequent snow showers with partly cloudy skies. At night it began to snow around 10 PM here and snowed for two hours, dropping around 2 inches. I could see the full moon through the clouds while it was snowing hard, giant flakes! I remember seeing the local news show a radar with a small band of snow right near JFK and SW Nassau. One of the other ones was a general heavy snowfall, the best one of the mid-late 80s I think...... 8.6 at NYC and also occurred in December. Ended as drizzle. Another one was during the same period, but in January, I got locked out of my house because my door was frozen lol and had to wait for my parents to get home- that one was in January. For some reason I only remember the LGA total..... 7" Another one, which I'm pretty sure happened in February, was on a front that came down was supposed to be rain changing to snow but a low stalled on the front and we had 30 hours of snowfall! That was amazing even though it was mostly wet snow during the day so didn't stick much at 33 or 34 degrees; at night it really began to pile up! The snow accumulated in a narrow band from EWR out to Long Island.... I think 4.5 inches fell at NYC but we had close to 8 inches here near JFK.... the low stalled near the Hamptons or just SE of there. No snow fell in Philly or Boston. That was actually my favorite storm pre Jan 1996!

Yes that was the one..... looks like both were undermeasured at the Park though as both storms had totals of 20-25 inches at the local airports.