LibertyBell

I thought you and Forky were organizing a group to chop down the foliage in Central Park?

I hope we get the drier heat. Make it happen lol. We dont reach triple digits here on Long Island unless we get a westerly flow.

so more like 2010?

are we doing winter ratings already? That winter gets a B in my book because we had a few other snow events right after that (remember the snow cover around the superbowl and when the big crane fell in Manhattan)....had 40 inches of snowfall with 50 inches in spots on Long Island. It would get a B plus based on snowfall alone as well as the below zero temp on Valentines Day but gets scaled down to B because of the miserable December. If you grade on January and February alone though that should be a B+

I wouldn't mind both in the same year.....two of my favorite periods of history were 1993-1996 and 2009-2016.

March 2015 was the greatest March I've ever experienced. 2018 was even better if you include April!

Wild weather? Okay well the first 9 of those days will be sunny so if that's wild for you, so be it.

I mean 80s is pretty boring, at least triple digits is something we'll remember. I always celebrate a triple digit temp with a few cold ones

Enjoy your time away Walt! Hopefully we get some historic heat in July and have a super heatwave (three straight days of over 100) which brings you back for a bit!

March 20-23 if past history is to be any guide (and it should be, as storms seem to cluster around specific dates.)

who?

How much did NYC get in the April 1956 snow, Don? and wow Philly got that much snow in April 1990? How much did JFK get? Looks like that was a southern storm? I remember 89-90 for the odd cold dry December followed by record warm January and February and what can only be described as a heat wave in the middle of March! and March 2015? wasn't that a cold February and March and we had a single digit low just before March 1st and an 8 inch snowstorm in March?

yes that storm wasn't well predicted. If you extend it to March 20-23, didn't we have one in March 1994, a 4" to end that season? I remember a few seasons that had their last measurable snowfall in that period right near the equinox. March 2015 should be on this list too.

March 1996 was highly underrated, didn't we get 3x 4" snowfalls that month? And then another one on April 10th!

If snow was covered in tarp would that protect the snow cover (and also lessen this damn fog?)

28 actually remember 2 of those occurred on February eve lol

This can come back.....it's not even that far off.

I saw a map on TV that showed where snowfall had risen, where it had stayed the same and where it had decreased. It seemed to coincide with similar rises and falls in total annual precipitation- where it snows of course.

So the actual numbers never seem to rise as much as the decade to decade change. I wonder if at some point the 30 yr norms will rise at a heightened pace.

which decade has represented the greatest rise in temperatures, Chris? was it this one? I mean this most recent one that ended

I dont think this will ever change regardless of what ENSO state we're in.

looks like next winter will be a neutral? I think most of the snow season is done on the east coast, so just looking back on it, looks like above normal snowfall occurred Philly on north while it was below normal Baltimore on south.

Yeah this is what happens when you dont abide by federal regulations, they are there for a reason.

nuclear+renewables is the best combo. I see we now have automated vehicles mining for materials at the sea floor, so this should lessen the carbon footprint you mentioned. Thats why I think the pandemic sounded the death knell for the fossil fuel cartels, it was nature's way of fighting back against the virus that is humanity and its overpopulation of the planet which has destroyed the environment and resulted in a mass extinction event for most other species. We've reached a tipping point and once any species becomes too dominant, it goes bye bye or gets severely reduced- that's how the system is built to work. To "beat" this system and reach a new overhead, you'll eventually have to colonize space. Hence all the investment in space going on by billionaires.

I'd muchhhhhhhhhhhhhh rather have the snowy February than the "snowy" March When was the last time we had 20" of snow in March lol. Interesting with over 2 ft of snow this February and it's still only the 5th snowiest since 2003. Of course we should also include the 2" that fell on February 1 eve but that's another story. How come 2014-15 isn't on either of these lists? That had a nice JFM combo!