Each of the ocean basins is taking its turn..... is this retrograding and will it be the Atlantic's turn next? First it was the Pacific and then the Indian....
this is looking more and more like a warm and wet summer coming up rather than hot and dry. You dont often get a hot summer with such a high soil moisture content.
Might be a 1996 kind of summer oncoming, really humid but not hot.
I saw some videos indicating that it snowed in Brooklyn during the day on Saturday. I thought the snow happened in the middle of the previous night? I wasn't aware that any snow fell in NYC or Long Island during the day.
The really major heat was between 2010 and 2013, now we seem to have much more rainy springs (and a lot more allergies.). 2011 was a year in which we had both extreme heat AND lots of rain- like 1983 in that respect!
for some reason I remember 90s occurring more frequently in April and May back then (with the exception of 2002 and 2010 of course.)
It's been like pulling teeth to get 90 at JFK before June in recent years......
when was the last time we had a polar vortex like this during the winter?
but the pollen horror has been full steam ahead since March.
why cant we invent some sort of chemical to prevent pollen outbreaks? we seem to invent them for everything else......
in 1996 we had snow during Mother's Day weekend too, 1-3 inches in the Poconos, I came home to a big heavy frost on Long Island on Monday, the 14th! 33 degree low. 1995-96 might have been our longest snow season!
2002 was special, we went from a historically unsnowy winter to a brief shot of cold in early April, to a historic heatwave in mid April to another cold down in May to historic heat again over the summer lol. There was snow in the Poconos in May 2002 also.
in 1990 we had a stretch of upper 80s in mid March to 1 inch of snow in early April lol....before that we had a Thanksgiving snowstorm going to a historically cold and dry December going to a historically warm Jan/Feb