LibertyBell

The city's supply of salt ran out! That was a marathon winter with two storms every week and 30 storms in total. If the weather channel had been naming storms back then not only would they have run out of names, they would have run out of the Greek alphabet too and the Hebrew alphabet would be up next! That was Allentown's winter of record also, they had around 80" of snow.

The heavy snow was in eastern PA and points east, I saw Scranton had about a foot and half of snow during that storm.

I remember both. Long Island in Suffolk County Islip got 12" from the first one and I remember the second one a week later dropped an inch at JFK

reminds me of 07-08 when we had an SWFE deliver a surprise 6" in late February. question about analogs....why cant 05-06 be an analog for this winter? The extremely active 2005 hurricane season (we are quickly catching up in number of hurricanes and I think we'll have 15 again this season especially with the 90 degree Caribbean.) Also the previous year, 04-05 was an el nino like last year was and 05-06 was a la nina like this one is. So you could have a cold first half of December with an inland to near NYC snow event, a mild mid to late December followed by a mild January and then get a February with one freak snowstorm and then we'll see how March turns out (in 06 March was cold but not much snow) and then we ended it in early April with another freak snow event to get us to 40"

1993-94 and 1995-96 made up for it, especially the latter one. Then another snow drought before the epic era started in earnest from 2002-03 onwards.

when I was growing up we had an awful snowless period between 79 and 93 with the exception of Feb 1983

I dont think climate deniers are actually climate deniers (at least the majority of them), they actually either dont care or believe that a warming planet is a good thing or they think its too late to do anything about it so might as well just let it keep going.

what about 2001-02?

and having a hurricane season that lasts all year, like what the fire season is evolving into the word "season" will have an entirely different meaning within our lifetimes

some would say all this heat is a good thing, saving on heating costs and we can do a lot of work outside

What is the time line for the second event, Walt? Is that from the remnants of another tropical system? I see there are two more TC possibilities on the board now.

That sounds pretty fair and reasonable. I guess I'm complaining because there are so many of them. If there were only 3-4 then there wouldn't be so much confusion and information overload. Anything over half a dozen seems to be too much to me to be of much use and the laws of diminishing returns step in.

Walt looks like a widespread 2-4 inches everywhere from NE PA to Long Island? In your latest map I see a spot of 5"+ right in NE PA.

Yeah you know I dont expect it either, that was a one in 50 year pattern, just pointing out that we have had nice winters with most of December being a shut out until the final week.

what caused the very warm north Pacific?

I wonder if Long Island has ever experienced a high of 80 or above and a low of 32 or below.

to be fair even if we dont experience a turn around until the last week of December a la 2010, it'll be okay.

why do people come up with these crazy models? Just spend the funds on one model to make it as good as possible.

yeah thats the only bad part- I need to turn the heat on at night

what causes it? is it the awful number of people driving around in dirty oil powered vehicles? Mandatory car pooling needs to be in effect, four people per car or not allowed to drive, period end of discussion.

New PBS series beginning next Monday https://www.pbs.org/show/power-trip-story-energy/

If we do get an el nino next year, Summer 2021 may not be as hot as we think..... la ninas going into el ninos dont make for very hot summers. Even in our 11 yr cycle of hot summers, the hottest tend to be el ninos going into la ninas, not vice versa. Maybe Chris or Don could do an analysis of this.

lots of fireballs being spotted- there was one visible in Alabama a few days ago and another one over Europe a few days ago. This must be the one Mt Holly mentioned

this is way better than the hell of 5 straight days of rain. sunshine is awesome

perfect weather, I was getting sick and tired of the high humidity and high mins. I see someone developed a machine to squeeze the moisture out of the air and turn it into drinking water? We need to do that en masse around here.