LibertyBell

How does FOK get 0.2" of ice when they're right on the water lol?

Yep I've been hearing a lot about a very cold January coming up.

consecutive 60" rainfall years was unheard of prior to this decade lol.

a couple of those were decent winters but not extremely snowy (over 50" seasonal snowfall.)

Don, it's not about phasing out civilization but living in a much more sustainable way. I look at the native americans and how they lived much more in sync with the environment and did not drive other species to extinction the way the white man did. They were far more civilized. An example is all the toxic chemicals being used on our farms that are now polluting the waters of the GOM and our oceans and killing off sea life by depleting oxygen levels.

actually population collapse would be a good thing and I too believe that will happen in the future. I dont mean that in a cataclysmic sort of way, but more in the sense that fertility rates will drop (they are dropping already.) The earth's human population needs to stabilize around 1 billion, not tens of billions. That's for the health of humanity as well as the rest of our environment.

you need an effective world government that usurps the authorities of ignorant leaders like the "president" of Brazil. Economic sanctions can be used as a way to make them be more sustainable.

Population "stability" isn't enough, the earth is already overpopulated with humans. They're destroying essential tropical rain forests, polluting and crapping on the environment and driving the mass extinctions of other species. Add to that bad land usage with chemical fertilizers and pesticides and animal farming and you have a crisis on your hands. As John Kerry and Arnold said, climate change isn't a strong enough argument to convince most people- they dont care what's going on in the Arctic and dont care about sea level rises unless they live near a coastline. You need to use the pollution argument- look at how polluted the air in Delhi, India is (as an example.) There is a strong pollution argument to be made for why to stop using fossil fuels.

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.