LibertyBell

That August 2011 8" of rain at JFK is very memorable- and it came a month after we hit 104 degrees and 108 degrees at Newark! In August 2011 we also had to deal with the rains of Irene and a 5.8 earthquake! Chris, a storm that just missed this list though it comes close is the January 2016 Blizzard which was a 3" liquid equivalent (31" of snow) at JFK! That May 1, 2014 event is also memorable for all the flooding we had with widespread 5" rainfall totals (mostly at night)! Interesting I had forgotten that in March 2010 we actually had two big rainfall events, like we did in August 2011.

Yes it looks like major tornado damage down there, it's about as bad as a hurricane can ever get. I was glad to hear that we didn't lose more people.

https://www.nymetroweather.com/2018/10/17/nyc-area-forecast-freeze-watches-issued-coldest-air-season-arrives/

I like that we have an el nino, it usually forces more suppressed tracks that are good for us, most of our biggest snowstorms have occurred during an el nino. It might get off to a rocky start but I have confidence in the second half of winter at least. Meanwhile I'm glad October actually feels like fall- I wasn't taking seriously the idea of a torch October. It's the fall month historically least likely to torch and we should see our first frost this weekend.

The Euro for next February has consistently looked amazing....let's hope it doesn't end up like 2006-07 and we get a bunch of ice/sleet events!

This will be upgraded to Cat 5 post analysis just like Andrew was, everything was leveled down there.

2016 was pretty low too. This year's is later than any of them though like you said.

According to that the sea ice extent has been increasingly slightly in the last few days- so the minimum likely wont be in early October? Is this still the latest we've ever seen the minimum, Chris?

Chris, we've been setting records like this in different parts of the world's oceans for a few years now. What year had our latest sea ice minimum and does it look like we could break that record this year (with a sea ice minimum as late as October for the first time ever?)

More 75+ dew points and heat indices of 90+ could easily be in the cards though.

Why does the 2044 eclipse end suddenly over the Dakotas? And why does the 2079 eclipse begin suddenly around NE PA and not occur west of there? And is the 2045 eclipse going to be over 6 minutes in Orlando? Looks like St. Louis, MO and Carbondale, IL will get both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses' totality!

Maybe by 2079 humankind will have the technology to be able to control eclipses to make them last longer and occur more frequently ;-)

Thanks I already booked a hotel for Watertown, NY for the 2024 eclipse, going right up I-81! Wish we'd live to be around for the NYC-Boston eclipse of 2079 lol. Even if its cloudy for the upcoming eclipse, you can sneak in a small period of partly sunny skies like I had with an annular eclipse a few years back and got to witness 90% of totality through 10x50 binoculars for 10 sec lol.