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  1. LibertyBell
    early 90s were very similar.... but we had a solar maximum back then and a solar minimum now?
  2. LibertyBell
    Yep I dont remember it as well as 1995....but we definitely had lots of watering restrictions in 2002.... 1999 was another year with a drought and watering restrictions until Floyd hit.
  3. LibertyBell
    big fire season upcoming for Cali with 0" of rain in SF in Feb for the first time ever.... as a matter of fact the fires have already started (for us too)
  4. LibertyBell
    we had some unprecedented cold that month and right through April (basically nationwide)....we even had a 6 inch snowstorm in April to snow out the Yankees home opener! I lost power in the early March event you referenced....didn't the late March event also underperform for the city and western LI?
  5. LibertyBell
    what about Jan 2016? I think that was a Cat 4 snowstorm and had they accounted for the 30"+ that fell from Harrisburg to Allentown to Morris Plains to JFK, it would have ranked as the third highest storm on the NESIS scale, right behind March 1993 and Jan 1996. Come to think of it Jan 1996 should be top of the scale for the megalopolis. Feb 1983 should be up there too.
  6. LibertyBell
    and with the way we measure snow now this would have been 40"+ everywhere. Remember back in the 1800s snow was measured after settling. I wonder if there is some way to calculate what a 32" snowstorm measured at the end of the event would have been had it been measured every 6 hours to account for settling?
  7. LibertyBell
    are these storms shrinking in size? I remember in the past when coastal storms followed this kind of track we'd get hit with a significant snowstorm. Perhaps storms are becoming more intense but also more concentrated (developing properties more like tropical systems)?
  8. LibertyBell
    I dont know, I think the 95 last October was way more impressive lol.
  9. LibertyBell
    I still dont remember why it was such a big bust here.... a foot of snow was predicted lol- they even had more snow south of us!
  10. LibertyBell
    Yes and you could clearly see the snow sticking to the players hats! They still play that game on Yankee classics. JFK had 4" with that storm. April 1982, 1996, 2003, and 2018 were all memorable for snowstorms near Yankee home openers.....we seem to get about one every decade lol.
  11. LibertyBell
    yes "average temps" are very deceptive and not really indicative of how extreme a month can get.... March 1990 and 1998 were a lot more memorable than March 2012 for us. Are the lower maxes indicative of a more humid and rainy climate?
  12. LibertyBell
    one of my favorite April snows.... we had 6" here on the south shore of LI
  13. LibertyBell
    70s would be a disappointment at this rate.... let's go for mid 80s and higher! like March 1990 and 1998. In 1998 we were in the upper 80s a week after we had 5" of snow lol. In 1990 we were in the upper 80s in the middle of March and then saw an inch of snow in early April lol.
  14. LibertyBell
    see summer of 1995 for Chicago.... hundreds of people died, temps hit 106 on back to back days.... and remember all the wild fires here? 0 rainfall for August after hitting 103 in July with a 130 heat index at LGA in late July.
  15. LibertyBell
    thats what I've been saying for awhile now. The lawns looked like straw that summer lol.... remember we had a heatwave in the middle of April that year with low humidity and the bluest skies I've ever seen- so wonderful!
  16. LibertyBell
    there's something called the winter severity index and I wonder what the top 5 years are on that list for being the least and most severe for us? It comes temp and snowfall, so I would put 2001-02 at the top of the list for being the least severe.
  17. LibertyBell
    why was it so easy to reach the mid 80s in March 1990 and it doesn't seem to be so easy anymore? Higher humidity/wetter months?
  18. LibertyBell
    thats why I was wondering if the growing season started earlier that year- we had a very late first freeze and a very early last freeze lol. I bet there is a very short list of under 10 inch snowfall seasons that aren't strong or super el ninos.
  19. LibertyBell
    the difference between a trace of snow and 0 snow is a distinction without a difference :-P Besides, leap day is a fake day anyway (see my above post)....I'd rather have the extra day in the summer!
  20. LibertyBell
    no snow fell here, 4 miles from JFK. Leap day is a fake day at the end of February anyway....sure let's just randomly stick a day at the end of the second month of the year just so our calendars dont go out of whack. I'd rather have the day added at the end of June to make our summer a day longer! Besides T is equivalent to 0 snow anyway.
  21. LibertyBell
    Yeah that was my favorite March storm! I remember the temp off the ocean was below freezing and we got freezing drizzle off a "sea breeze"- the first time I've ever seen that! In February I remember seeing snow crystals falling out of a clear blue sky- strange sight!
  22. LibertyBell
    Did 2001-02 have an earlier leaf out than this?
  23. LibertyBell
    this winter definitely had the feel of 1989-90. Thats why I was wondering if we would get similar heat in March. Chris, are there any winters where all three winter months averaged over 40 F? And how many winters that weren't strong or super el ninos had as little snowfall as this winter has had?
  24. LibertyBell
    please no April 1997 repeats. we got 1-2 in that "storm"
  25. LibertyBell
    even that upside down model has to be better than this!
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