LibertyBell

Measure it with an upside down ruler and you'll have 12 inches!

it would still have been a backend snow for us on the coast.

Octosnow was more historic, I think anyways.

Would this be more historic than the October snowstorm? We got about 2" here in SW Nassau- all during the day!

what are some of our longer streaks recent, Chris? I'm thinking Feb 2014, Dec 2010-Jan 2011, etc. For the warm season, maybe Summer 2009 or Summer 1992 (after the Pinatubo eruption?)

Yes! March 2010 was the first time I saw transformers blowing up everywhere...it looked like red lightning! Sandy was the second time I saw that. There was a third time it happened here, around midnight in a severe wx event, but I cant remember what year it was (I know I posted about it here though.)

subsidence area between two heavier bands? thats where we usually end up in snowstorms lol.

Yeah I made this list of rain storms that I would take over most snow storms (outside of the 20+ inch snowstorms, those are in their own category.) This is in chronological order (if I had to rank them by severity I think I'd put Dec 1992 first, for its longevity, sustained high winds, rainfall and widespread flooding.) 1. Hurricane Gloria (1985) 2. November severe weather event (1989) 3. Hurricane Bob (1991) 4. Perfect Storm (1991) 5. December noreaster (1992) 6. July Hailstorm (1994) 7. Tropical Storm Bertha (1996) 8. May Derecho (1998) 9. Labor Day Tornado (1998)- an F2 only 2 miles from my house! 10. Hurricane Floyd (1999) 11. October rainstorms (2005)- rainiest month EVER here, around 20" of rain! 12. March noreaster (2010) 13. September derecho/tornadoes (2010) 14. August rainstorm (2011)- rainiest single storm here, around 10" of rain! 15. Hurricane Irene (2011) 16. Hurricane Sandy (2012) There's probably a lot more I missed, but these come to mind right away. edit- I added some severe wx events that came to mind.

it's not really a bust when you consider that this is what these kinds of storms usually do. More rain west / more wind east. NYC/LI 1-2" of rain and 50 mph gusts.... western NJ/PA 3-5" of rain and 30 mph gusts

Yeah those historic events are dramatic and memorable. I just dont want it raining every other day ya know lol. Getting a big event a couple times a month is a good thing to keep things interesting this time of year.

We have a Seattle/Dublin kind of climate now.

Yeah it's not really much of a cooldown. I feel like we really turned the corner after that yucky day in the 40s last Monday. We wont see anything like that again until next fall, no matter the pattern.

Yes, it's very difficult to get highs in the 40s in May. I dont really care about climo though, 50s are 50s no matter what time of the year it is. Definitely better than April weather.

wind will be the bigger deal here, not the rain....got all my stuff tied down including my new plants!

I thought there was a report that there was a 6% reduction? Still just a drop in the bucket. Of more interest is this: Some good news coming out of all this (after being condemned by the UN) is both China and Vietnam are starting to close down those unsanitary wet markets. Axios and PBS interviewed world renowned biologist Sir David Attenborough and he talked about the connections between biodiversity, pandemics and climate change and how poaching of elephants and other imported animals from Africa to Asia impacts deforestation (because these animals move seeds from one place to another in the African forests). He is now 93 yrs old and he said that when he was growing up in the 30s, about 67% of the planet was wilderness, which was down to about 50% during the 90s, and now is down to only 25%. These forests are integral because they act as carbon sinks. He also mentioned that pandemics are becoming more common because of people cutting down more forests and venturing into areas where exotic animals live and coming into contact with new viruses. Also mentioned was the release of once dormant microbes from under melting sea ice in Siberia. He said that he thinks this pandemic will teach us lessons about how quick changes need to be made to thwart the oncoming climate crisis. He also mentioned that giving urban areas access to more nutritious food is vitally important (less processed food, less sugar, etc-- sugary food and fast food can become addictive because of the release of dopamine and has been implicated in the quick rise of diabetes type 2, obesity and high blood pressure in young people, which, along with asthma from air pollution, have been shown to be major pre-existing conditions involved in covid19 deaths) and reducing air pollution by continuing the switch to electric vehicles (no NO2 emission.) Update on the death figures- Johns Hopkins Hospital thinks that the number of people who have died from this virus in the US might be double the reported figures, because the number of people who have died at home has not been reported. The estimate of 25% infection rate in NYC may also be an underestimate. Research out of California indicates that if we loosen restrictions over the summer, the infection rate will become higher than it ever was by August. They say if we keep the restrictions as they are now, the infection rate will rise to above 30% but if we loosen restrictions the infection rate will be around 95% in August. The UK being slow to close things down, looks like PM Boris Johnson has changed his tune from being cavalier to much more cautious about opening things back up now that he's been hospitalized for the infection himself and is a newly minted father. The nations that shut down fastest did the best (like New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Germany, South Korea, Finland, Iceland, etc.) The most likely scenario and the one which China and Vietnam are now starting to shut down are the unsanitary wet markets and the importation of exotic mammals with exotic viruses that humans haven't come into close contact with before. 60 Minutes did a great piece on this last Sunday and China has started to shut them down after the UN singled them out these wet markets as a source for exotic viruses.

thats a typical climo pattern, because the fronts tend to slow down over the Mtns to our west and dump out that way.

lol this place would be crazy if this was winter and this was a snow event.

this belongs in the winter not now lol. I am seeing some unpleasant years (for spring and summer) showing up in analogs, like 1996. I wonder if this increases the chances of a wetter and more humid summer coming up with not much dry weather or heat. High lows, low highs, lots of humidity and rain ugh. The worst part is not having 2-3 sunny days in a row. I dont mind cool weather as long as it's sunny and dry. Whats causing all this storminess instead of just having cool highs drop in from the north and block storms to our west and south? Is that where the hot Gulf of Mexico factors in?

the local mets keep talking about this warm up starting in early May (70s over the weekend), why cant that last? Also, since storms move from west to east, why cant heat move from west to east too (like that heat thats just starting up in California.)

I like early April when we actually have a chance at snow, but mid April on, let it heat up.....

Goldberg still keeps talking about the pattern flipping in early May. btw, In the village I live in which has a pop of around 17 K, we already have 300+ cases. Not going outside anywhere. We have lots of stray cats outside and I just heard on the news that two cats have tested positive and they have symptoms of the virus. omg the cats might be more dangerous than the mice- and there are stray cats outside my house lol

Thanks for the heads up! Also a rare treat if you can wake up before 5 am..... in the southeast sky Mars, Saturn and Jupiter in that order......nice contrast in colors too!

true but it's killing me on allergies. Good thing I have a year's supply of Benadryl at home lol.

They used to be better. Remember Live Aid and We are the World and Freddie Mercury?

in Maine lol