LibertyBell
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I think the way the NAO is calculated needs to be changed. What is traditionally considered a -NAO doesn't behave like it and isn't really a -NAO. For example we have to divide them into -- west based vs east based vs south based vs north based.
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February 2015 was my absolute favorite winter month on record and it even extended into March!! We had lots of cold, lots of snow and long duration snow cover too!!
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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
LibertyBell replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
It was partially manmade and partially natural Chris. I am 100% against conventional farming because of pesticides and fertilizers that destroy the environment and our health but in the case of what happened during the Dust Bowl, a combination of factors was involved. We had a long duration La Nina pattern back then which made it hotter and drier. It started in 1931 (leading to the extremely warm 1931-32 summer and It peaked in Summer 1936.) Summer 1936 was historic on every level. I wonder what the airports would have hit for highs with NYC hitting 106 lol. NYC has never even hit 105 before or since. Was Newark around in 1936 at least? By the way, a long duration La Nina pattern is also blamed as being responsible for wiping out the Mayans because of the record drought it caused. -
Yes, but it was historically hot during peak heating in late July. We haven't approached that kind of heat since then.
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Yes, this is what indicates to me that the boundaries between the seasons are becoming blurred. Maybe it's more accurate to say that for Spring and Summer it's more like a slow bake oven. It's what we see in the tropics all the time, but down there it's natural and a result of being closer to the Equator and not seeing the extreme differences in sunlight that we get from winter to summer.
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There's always an exception here and there, but the rule is a good one that seems to work out more times than not. I'd argue that 2010-2011 was a much better winter and was more in line with the great winters in my analysis, in 2009-2010 the biggest snowstorm missed to our south, that one still angers me lol. Snowicane at the end of February was a great storm, but was half rain for the eastern half of the subforum.
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It gets boring if it lasts too long lol. I just want like a 3-4 day stretch like that every summer.
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That was one of the highlights of that winter lol. Nature celebrating the new year with a bang.
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People suffered second degree feet burns during the 1993 Summer when they went to the beach and I remember people were frying eggs on the sidewalk lol.
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Thanks for the comparison Chris.... it's wild how everyone says that LGA is overly hot, and yet the high in Summer 1966 was 107 while it was 3 degrees lower in Summer 2011 at 103. I love the Mineola comparison between the two summers, they went up from 103 in 1966 to 108 in 2011 to match Newark! Newark went up three degrees from 105 to 108 and NYC and JFK basically stayed the same (103-104). This is a great reference point to compare the climate between the 1960s and the 2010s!! Didn't 1966 have a second 100 degree heat streak, back in June? I think JFK topped 100 in that one too! We don't see 100 degree heat in June anymore, but we did in the 1950s (1953) and 1960s (1966).
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108 at Newark, 104 at NYC and 103 at JFK. As Chris mentioned Mineola on Long Island hit 108 and matched Newark!
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Summer 1966 was also followed by one of our best winters, 1966-67. It furthers my argument that our hottest/driest summers lead to our best winters. It was repeated again with 1977-78, 1993-94, 1995-96, 2002-03 and 2010-11. 1955-56 also followed in the same style. I definitely would not mind a lower humidity summer with high temperatures above 100, it's quite therapeutic and keeps the bugs away.
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I thought it was the downsloping effect from the huge skyscrapers... dry hot west winds in the spring summer and fall are my absolute favorite!! We get really blue skies with them too!!
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enjoy your mild snowless winter, because thats what we will get with a rainy cool summer.
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so all this cut off crap is caused by the big ridge in the west? why don't we get this in the winter anymore-- ridge in the west trough in the east? I can easily forecast a mild snowless winter, because that's when we'll get the ridge in the east lol. Whatever the summer is, the winter tends to be opposite.
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is this also the day of the month that has gotten the most rain? My dear Dad passed away on 5/14/2014 and I always remember it as the rainiest day and that entire spring/summer was extremely rainy.
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but it's leaning on higher mins, so not really an inferno, more like a slow bake oven.
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^Yes, meanwhile Kennedy and Long Beach were up around 80 mph. Higher than December 1992 but not anywhere near the amount of damage because December 1992 lasted for 3-5 days. They really need to name these long lasting historic noreasters, they cause more damage here than hurricanes do.
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The northern Queens hailstorm I remember from the 90s had very small hailstones (hail pebbles?) but they fell for several hours and accumulated up to a foot, that's why snow plows were required.
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Don't jinx yourself, one day you'll be hit by a megaicycryometeor!!
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west Texas climate is much better with drier heat. My first step in geoengineering would be to get rid of the Gulf of Mexico. Or build a mountain range on the gulf coast to cut off all that humidity.
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That must have been a north shore event. I know there was a hail event in northern Queens years ago that required plowing to remove.
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I blame pesticides and fertilizers more than anything. Conventional farming practices need to be reformed. Toxic algae blooms cause massive problems in the summer.
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so glad we're not getting any of that rain they are getting south of us, flash flood emergencies and entire school buses floating away! we've had more than enough rain.
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wow earliest shark sighting on Long Island, a Great White was sighted near Montauk!!
