LibertyBell

But Don aren't thaws normal? If we have a cold first half of December that could return in January after a thaw in between. Maybe we'll have a back and forth pattern with chances of snow when switching between patterns?

It was colder in Florida than it was in Maine yesterday.

Got an inch on the ground here with a red fox playing in the snow. Nice prolonged light to occasionally moderate snow.

I believe in superdeterminism. There are no accidents!

In Eastern PA it's been snowing all morning and there's about an inch on the ground. Varying rates, usually light, moderate at times. Also saw a red fox with a big bushy tail wandering through my yard. Looking for wabbits?

Yes I never understood people who love eating turkey, I've had seaweed that tastes better.

Doing my regular update on the latest episode of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, since it's the only thing I'd ever watch on FOX aside from sporting events. Just watched the latest mindblowing episode of Cosmos: Possible Worlds with Neil Degrasse Tyson and he talked about the dual nature of light, quantum mechanics, possible parallel universes (MWI style) and higher dimensions. When discussing entanglement and instantaneous action at a distance and how it violates classical physics and how two particles entangled together though billions of light years apart can change spin at the exact same moment, until an observer interferes by the mere act of observing (and violates relativity for that matter), he brought up the idea of superdeterminism, something I've been considering for awhile now as the only way out of the quantum paradox, that the entire history of the universe was actually decided at its inception (no free will,etc.) I've always believed free will to be an illusion, and that behavior at the quantum level shows that instead of cause and effect, the entire history of the universe was decided when it was rebooted. His point though was just because free will is an illusion it doesn't mean we should behave as though we know it's an illusion.

I think you guys would find this interesting. TWC posted a color coded map showing where snowy Novembers led to snowy winters, or not-snowy winters or no correlation at all. Around the Great Lakes it was a positive correlation, for the east coast it was a negative correlation and for the middle of the country there was no correlation.

It was 37 and snowing in Birmingham Alabama also.

Who knows, maybe we'll get the elusive triple phaser this year! Has any research been done to see which ENSO phase is most likely during triple phasers?

We got the record, YES!

this line is turning into a nothingburger as it gets closer to the coast, which is typical behavior for thunderstorms.

That line looks like it's starting to break up as it nears the coast.

why cant they just kill off the beetles?

a bonafide squall line

But if you go back to the November 15 event, that one had strong winds everywhere, did they come from a different direction?

yeah dont want power outages lol especially during cold storms.

Not to mention the cars that have been crashing into these outdoor seating areas.

is that the high for the day?

we need some sort of national park on Long Island where trees dont get cut. we do have some state parks.

Chris, are we going to make the record for the warmest November on record?

Yeah I like long lasting storms even if the rates are only moderate. Some of our best storms have been like that.

and then a four month long depression in the nonwinter of 01-02.....

that was backside snow that often gets mentioned but rarely occurs Of course people's expectations were much higher than just some backside snow. We had 5" here in SW Nassau, I think Patchogue got a foot? That was the highest amount I saw mentioned on Long Island. SW CT got a lot more.

looks like temps around 70 to our south fueled this line.