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you think thats bad, imagine being a kid on Long Island during the mid 80s-to early 90s!

I guess I've always worried after a couple of close calls we've had (LGA has had them too.) Remember December 1995 when a plane slid off the runway at JFK? I think a similar incident happened at LGA more recently too.

I think JFK was the jackpot of the local airports over the weekend, that was about 2.5" of rain.

Having experienced various winters here over the decades, I can say that I find 50" of snowfall a season to be "satisfactory." Anything under 40" is not satisfactory, but 50" is what I consider a Grade A winter. 60" is A+

yes and lack of sunshine makes me grumpy (and also allergic).... I had to take benadryl again a few days ago when we were in the 50s and it was raining. For some reason I dont get allergies when it's snowing lol.

No, much more likely that we get it in February. Maybe even January considering some of the newer forecasts I've been looking at say we may be in for a cold January. It's been many many decades since there's been an HECS in March- namely 1993.

haha I was thinking of his Dark Tower series, I haven't read any of his earlier works, I found it laudable that he was trying to combine all of his fiction into one series, very Tolkien-like. Then again I'm more of an Asimov science fiction fan, as fantasy doesn't really do it for me.

Thats wonderful- we get most of our snow in January and February anyway, so dry weather is preferred in December :-)

Some of America's greatest writers hailed from Maine.... I'm thinking John Updike, Stephen King and Robert Frost (?). It is indeed a refuge for intellectuals and inspires creativity.

the airport should have been closed...we've had some pretty bad incidents in this kind of weather

so JFK didn't get above freezing until 6 am?

my favorite March for snow was 2015, it was an extension of February. March being snowy by itself really doesn't do anything for me, it has to be an extension of a snowy winter for it to "feel" like a real winter.

thats indeed a strange situation, but Central Park still retained freezing temps longer.

This reminds me of the snow squall we had last winter

as long as it's dry I dont care- I've had enough of this dreary weather.

Our winters are contracting.

well if you look back to the 50s, when March was the snowiest month, it seems that the pattern is that when March is a snowy month it means that the winter was not all that snowy.

I'll be ecstatic when we get that break and have some dry weather that lasts a week or more.

at some point humanity will need to attempt climate regulation. There is no way around it. In every other science (except for astronomy of course, since we cant reach the stars yet), we are more than just observers, we are experimenters. Climatology is no different.

what happened to the climate shifts thread?

Well it's their funeral. Whatever happens it's what humanity deserves. I feel bad for the younger generation, but until the older people die off, this wont be solved.

actually if we want to technically define winter as the coldest 90 day period of the year, it would be from about December 8th to March 7th.

Heck, the solstice isn't even the shortest day of the year!

what would it take for that southern stream low to come north ;-)

I remember years ago burying myself in the New York Public Library and coming upon a "weather almanac" (I forgot its name) that didn't have snowfall records, but had temperature averages going back to the 1700s and 1800s. Curiously, February seemed to be the coldest month back then and the mean temp for both January and February was under 30 degrees! Then I came across the Pennsylvania Weather Book which mentioned that during the 1800s there were a couple of occasions when both NYC and Philly accumulated 100" of seasonal snowfall and had snow cover extending from Thanksgiving to St Paddy's Day!