LibertyBell

The ironic thing is if we included 09-10 in this decade, the decade makes it over a 30"+ average by a nice margin.

Was JFK just a T? We had very little snow here aside from a dusting on car tops and roofs.

I wasn't aware of what was going in Europe, Don! How bad is it over there? Is there a global temp map for December? I also heard that Australia just had its hottest and driest year on record, and it's not even close.

14-15 and 15-16 being cases in point. What I find concerning though is that the mild pattern started later this time, so it might be more like 05-06 or 06-07.

A good thing about late Jan is that you dont need temps to be abnormally cold to get a significant snowfall event. Storm track is essential though.

So yesterday was the day when we hit 72 back in 2007, which was also the anniversary of the great Jan 96 blizzard! Is 72 the all-time monthly record for Jan, Chris?

2001-02 was much worse in my view.... at least in 2015-16 winter was pretty exciting from about Jan 20th onwards.

If you can do that, you should also be able to build a super weather machine that gives us epic winters every year!

I remember a few years ago we altered the Saffir-Simpson scale because of this rounding mess (which is worse in that case because it's to the nearest 5 knots.)

The traditional tendency is for the likelihood to increase. In any case, is the 60+ period forecast to be more prolonged than it was the last time it hit 70 in January, Chris? I think that previous January 70 temp was in 2007?

Oh so that 30.2 is above normal in F, not temps in C lol. Still another massive anomaly, maybe close to the level of the 95 we had in early October?

No chance of 70 is there- too much cloud cover?

Are the relevant shortwaves and other features in a well-sampled region or still off the Pacific?

On a related topic, look up the series Blue Planet 2 on BBC America. It's EXCELLENT. It shows the vast variety of life in the depths of the oceans and what warming is doing to them. The answer to deep sea drilling should be a perpetual NO! 90% of all life lives down there and life may have started down there and the life there is so magnificently alien-like that I cant help but think that actual alien life would be like that. They showed fish with transparent heads where you can see their brains through their skulls (so they can look up without having to move their heads, they can actually look through their skulls!), fish that communicate by flashing different patterns of lights (we still dont know what they are saying to each other) and fish discovered 6km down that have actual feet and walk on the ocean floor and one particularly weird fish with two different sized eyes, one that always looks down and the other (much larger) that always looks up! They showed a part about coral reefs and what bleaching is doing to them and all the species dependent on them including clown fish that actually build homes inside the reefs and keep them clean.

SWFE? Looks like a quick hit of snow before either changing to rain or if we're lucky ending as a period of drizzle.

whats up with the Euro anyway? is this all because of that "upgrade"?

around an inch in my other home in the Poconos.

MAM qualifies as porn. Sorry! ;-)

That reminded me of Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty or give me death!"

The unbelievable thing about 2015 was the negative double digit departure in the same year (February 2015) and also the fact that 2015-16 made a major comeback with a 30"+ snowstorm here in January and then a below zero low in February.

That was like right out of The Twilight Zone. There was this one episode called "Midnight Sun" where the earth was heating up because it had wandered closer to the sun. Ironically earlier that same year we had a negative departure month (February 2015) that was also a double digit anomalous month, but not quite on the same level as December 2015. Have we ever had two double digit departure months in the same year, aside from 2015? (Especially two double digit departure months going in opposite directions lol.)

wow sounds a lot like how I remember 1989-90 Funny how I remember 1989-90 better than I do 2011-12 lol.

I was thinking that too, this is almost like the winter version of our now all-too-common wet summers with humid highs of 88 and 89 and dew points above 70 or 75 on a regular basis and overachievingly high mins.

massive differences between historically backloaded winters like 2014-15 and 1966-67 vs a period of cold/snow in late winters like that one.

Sometimes we get a delayed response, like a la nina after an el nino can be very snowy- for example 95-96 and 10-11.