LibertyBell

But I thought the last 10 days are supposed to be warm? How much of a difference is there between our current average and the warmest year on record and what year was it?

I like the crepe myrtles we have on Long Island now.

yes- or going from single digital to 50 inches in consecutive years (2001-02 and 2002-03) actually 2000-01 to 2001-02 to 2002-03 was a fair repeat of the years you quoted.

averages dont mean anything when it comes to snowfall- as a matter of fact, a so-called "average" snowfall season is the least likely outcome.

and there is so much variability that it doesn't even make sense to use averages.

Hmm was that eruption actually in late March and wouldn't that be really soon for the snowstorm to occur after the eruption? More likely it was the emerging super el nino to come next winter. Same thing happened in April 1997.

but less snow especially during the 80s with a suppressed storm track outside of Feb 1983

Jan 1985 had the coldest day I've ever experienced.....

people talk about these averages as if they are some kind of certainty lol. Averages dont mean anything, especially in a changing climate.

but nature cant heal Arecibo :-(

growing up in the 80s helped..... to be honest, an apocalyptic event would also be something to get excited over.....

yes and economically thats all that really matters, that the ski resorts do well.

personally I'm more excited right now about getting the warmest year on record....of course this record will probably only last one year lol

dont worry florida will be coming here soon enough and florida, well, they'll be the atlantis of the future (with much less advanced tech of course.)

snow that changes to rain is garbage, I'd rather have zero snow and 70 degree temps and if that's in our future so be it.

For local regions, looks like NYC is in the lead with their warmest year on record, as are other cities in the northeast and Florida also (Miami, Orlando, Tampa). NYC is getting perilously close to a 60 degree yearly temp average and Miami is approaching 80 for a yearly average... Think we have our warmest year on record, Don?

For local regions, looks like NYC is in the lead with their warmest year on record, as are other cities in the northeast and Florida also (Miami, Orlando, Tampa). NYC is getting perilously close to a 60 degree yearly temp average and Miami is approaching 80 for a yearly average....

Yes indeed. First part overperformed as the rain/snow line remained 5 miles south of the south shore and we got 8 inches from that and then the temps plummeted and I was convinced the second part would be even better with temps in the teens but the best dynamics went east of us and we only got 5 inches in the second part while Farmingdale ended up with 20 inches between the two parts of the storm. That might have been the earliest 20 inch storm on any part of Long Island. You have to be close to the rain/snow/mix line to get the best snows!

I remember that as the Central Long Island storm, in urbanized parts of western Long Island it was a nice storm but not as much as what we had on March 1, 2009 (granted the first day of March is more like late February than it is March.) The one I remember most in that series was the April snowstorm that shut down the Yankee opener.

too windy to do any leaf raking too

Yeah Jan 2019 was my best too. That was 2 winters ago though, the one last winter, 2019-20, was okay but not as great as the one in Jan 2019.

Yeah I remember that now too, and even that wasn't as great as the epic one we got the winter prior to that.

yeah a real boring day in NE PA lol. Got a few drops of rain and some high winds...oh and it got really dark for a few minutes LOL

I fondly remember that as the best storm we got all "winter." Actually besides the December and January events, did we even get anything else?

Oh yeah I remember that as the Albany storm, I never thought we had a chance with that.....we classify some storms as near misses, but that was an inland storm all the way.