LibertyBell

This is very poignant (and for more than just climate change reasons.) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joel-sartore-on-saving-endangered-species-and-ourselves/ The video has images of species nearing extinction.

The 1990s was transitioning away from the low points of the 70s and 80s. We still haven't seen a winter as great as 1995-96 and 1993-94 was also really good. Unfortunately they were book ended by winters that sucked (except 1992-93 which was about average here.)

Seems like the average snowfall line runs from about Binghamton to Boston. Time will tell if it descends south as the season progresses.

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.

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.)

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.

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.)

I see the effects are different in different places- here on the east coast we've seen a rapid rise in relative humidity and annual precip totals. Longer allergy seasons and higher insect populations (and the bad kind of insects like mosquitoes.) And the changes to the ocean are also destroying the fragile marine ecosystem, this is having massive consequences which will only get worse.

It's interesting how the changes in the Pacific are causing all these changes all over the globe. They have a multiyear drought going on in Australia, very similar to what's been happening in the SW.

I'm sensing that most scientists feel that the error was on the conservative side too. I've noticed the predictions of sea level rise have gotten higher and we're already seeing sunny side flooding on a regular basis in Florida and South Carolina and even on the south shore of Long Island. Aren't there parts of the Florida Keys that have been underwater for 3 months now?

yeah all these clouds went to waste, and this yucky high humidity.

the blue skies are beautiful, but that landscape is too barren. Give me 2-3 inches of precip every month and not all these horribly cloudy, dismal, dank days, and I'm happy.

I was shocked because some are already comparing this to December 2015. At least that one occurred earlier and we made somewhat of a comeback in late January and February. I saw the pollen report and weeds were reported to be "high"- wondered what kind of weeds come out in January lol. The shortest non growing season I've ever had was 2001-02, when I had roses blooming in late December and the first crocuses came out in late February. The next winter made up for that of course, actually the next four did.

the same weather pattern looks like it will continue... also the number of people missing is now at 28. the 8,000 koalas reported to be dead is one third of the koala population, that's worse than decimation!

They have a very conservative government. Do you think whats going on there is also influencing our weather (note the record warm 90 degree SST just north of Australia.)

too dry for me lol. I was in the Poconos for the holidays and even there I was sneezing nonstop. So it isn't a regional thing; I was shocked that I was having allergies in the middle of winter at 2,000 ft asl.

I'm not complaining about the lack of snow as much as all the damn rain we've been having, it's kicking up my allergies already. I want snow or dry sunny weather, nothing else. I wouldn't mind no rain for like 3 months lol.

but then Orion would be missing a shoulder :-(

Yes but Staten Island and Brooklyn had similar totals to Manhattan and most of Long Island.