Part of the reason for that is the higher elevation in the West.
Look at the wildfires in California, which now happen year-round rather than seasonally.
I loved tracking that thing! It was like tracking a summer severe tstorm threat! Didn't we have advance warning that it was coming like a day in advance?
Is there anything you would compare this event to? Not significant enough to compare it to March 2005 either, I would think?
Don it looks like we'll get one more arctic shot heading into the weekend, and that will be the end of the cold weather for a long time?
Any early thoughts on what Thanksgiving weekend might be like (temps/precip)?
Most of the public doesn't think of weather people as scientists and probably doesn't even take them seriously. The ones we see on TV seem to fit this profile.
It was treacherous driving here in SW Nassau, lots of large branches broken and lying on the roads! 6-8 inches out here, but nothing like the 14" in Freehold NJ! Being away from the sound helped us the previous year in the Octosnowstorm too.
Wow I thought we missed the chance at a record since we didn't get to 25.
On Wednesday what are the chances that our high will be 32 or less and the low will be 19 or less? Would either be the earliest ever?
I wonder if we'll follow the pattern of 2017-18 and last year of having a snowy February or March?
We were sandwiched with more snow both south and north of us. The April 1982 and February 1983 blizzards were the two major storms that decade, with a few moderate storms like January 1987.
Looks like we're in a period where that will be difficult to do, because the timing between the Arctic shots and storms is bad- another reminder of the 80s.
This is exactly what I found back in the early 90s. Cold Novembers result in winters that are either much delayed or denied (the majority of the time.)
on TWC they had the climate debate and I listened with some alacrity while R's were talking about letting the free market handle it and letting them spurt as much CO2 as they want to into the air until it hurts them economically.