LibertyBell

also mostly snow for all of long island

it was threading the needle all right, but the wrong needle

these kinds of storms typically produce the most historic totals, not the dynamic ones

this is supposed to be a good thing right, there was a massive drought with widespread wildfires there last summer...interesting to see 89-90 and many years from the 2000s on this list

what does the cone of uncertainty look like?

I have a feeling some will be up for the 00z runs tonight

I guess it depends on where the 100 mile change occurs. Why dont we have cones of uncertainty for winter storms too lol

two storms that come to mind are Boxing Day 2010 and the Feb 2006 HECS

Are you a relative of Megatron? If so, we dont allow Decepticons here, sorry.

that whole conversation was like something out of the Twilight Zone

rapid increase in winter time temps and also rapid increase of high precip events. and not just much lower ice coverage in the Arctic you're also seeing that on the Great Lakes now.

then again it's probably better that this happened in the winter rather than the summer....could you imagine summers getting that extreme? I love my 100 degree days but no way would I want that to happen every week!

what's keeping the second storm from riding up the coast, Don?

Sounds right lol. I noticed that when I do night time photography of the stars I have to adjust my timings to account for the "sidereal day" which is the time between when the stars will be at the same position in the skies as they were the previous day- the sidereal day is 23 hr 56 min long, so the stars reach the same position in the sky as they were the previous night, four minutes earlier. The reason for this discrepancy is because both the rotation and revolution of the earth need to be factored in. Maybe the solar days are slightly longer in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere because the earth is actually closest to the sun in January, which is winter for us, but in the Southern Hemisphere winter happens in July, when the earth is furthest from the sun.

make them pay only maybe then the US models will improve like the Euro has improved.

got a total for JFK and LGA Don? We had snow covering parts of the roads here in southern Nassau and it fell quite heavily for a while, I was thinking there'd be a snow squall warning

when's the 3rd storm?

I've always wondered, why is there a lag with sunrises not getting earlier until the middle of January? Why is there an assymetry between sunrises and sunsets?

Do you think we could get a repeat of the early Feb 1985 snowfalls? I think there were two 4-6 inch events within days of each other. Looks like both storms next week have the potential to do that. Speaking of which today is the anniversary of the coldest day I've ever experienced....in 1985 the low was -2 and the high was just 7!

you only get one of those every 20 years or so.....so something else needs to happen first.

There should've been a snow squall warning with this one, we had snowcovered roads here for an hour or two on the south shore and the snow was falling rapidly, HUGE flakes. How did NYC only record a T, we had about a half an inch here....didn't see what the airports got.

ps the "generational lead time" stuff happened in the 80s, it's quite apparent it's happening much more quickly now.

Good to see the Keystone Pipeline shut down so we'll no longer get dirty fuel from the Tar Sands of Alberta

especially with some predicting an extreme heat summer!

awesome to see one of these. time to put the pacific to bed once and for all.