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Wow, those are the places where you can get all possible weather within an hour, any time of the year. Could you imagine that kind of temperature change? Must've been accompanied with some amazing winds too.

The taxes are pretty out of control and it only keeps getting worse, I suspect political corruption is to blame. I expect that you can get a lot more property out there for much less. The buyers seem to have been on the rude side, typically you should be getting a 30 day grace period to move out.

How did you end up moving to the Black Hills? I've always wanted to visit that area because I remember reading somewhere that it gets the most rapid temperature changes of any place on Earth. A place called Spearfish I think. I love temperature (or any other kind of) extremes!

We get screwed either way lol. Remember the retrograding Feb 2010 storm where Central Park got 20" inches of snow and it took our area the entire day to change over? We ended up with over an inch of rain followed by about a foot of snow. Feb 2013 was the opposite of that in that the heavier totals were to our east but we still started out with rain and ended up with a foot of snow on the back end. It was like March 2001 except with a lot more precip.

Thought it was interesting that we had sustained tropical force winds yet the gusts only made it to about 50.

It's more like 42" to 49" from what I can recall from memory, but it might be like 41.4 to 49.7, I don't have eidetic memory It should be fairly easily to compare though, take 30 year segments- 1951 to 1980 vs 1981 to 2010.

I remember some place recorded 40"- might have been CT?

But average increase of annual snowfall totals vs more frequency of big precip snow "bombs" are two different things. As you know, one big event can make up for an entire season's snowfall (a great example of this was the January 2016 big snow that dumped over 30" here.) The average annual rainfall went from around 40" during the 70s/80s to around 50" now, which is a pretty significant increase. The increase in snowfall should be transitional anyway, in a warming climate, we'll eventually get past this stage. The increasing precip totals, higher humidity levels and higher temps will have much more long term impacts though, including more tropical diseases spreading into our area (we've already been seeing that over the past decade.)

I remember the LIE became a parking lot lol, it was sort of like Boxing Day 2010 moved 60 miles further east.

No, it's probably not chance since total precip has been on a steep increase since the 70s. I remember the 70s/80s and it was an entirely different climate back then- big precip events were much much more rare. There's been a huge increase in 2"+ and even 3"+ precip events. There's been a big increase in total annual precip too.

blah that was a really bad one, I can't stand <20" snowfall seasons, most of that came in one storm that was predicted to drop 3 feet of snow in NYC and it ended up in Suffolk County instead.

Thanks did they measure snow at White Plains back then? I guess Bridgeport, CT would suffice too.

I think the closest thing to that I've experienced was 1993-94. If I remember right, JFK got about 45 inches of snow while LGA got 65 inches, not sure what White Plains got though.

I would actually be happy with the 50 even if White Plains got 180 lol- I guess you have to have low expectations out here when most years we don't even reach 30.

Yup it almost gives our noreasters a sort of tropical "feel" to them in how rapidly they strengthen along the gulf stream. Our most historic coastal storms can cause damage on the same level as a TC.....case in point is December 1992.

No I mean that on the east coast you have to deal with land-sea interactions, the gulf stream, etc. You also have to factor in population density so a forecast error of 10 miles can result in a far bigger bust than what you would get out there.

no ocean there = easier forecasts!

Wind warnings are now wind advisories and in effect until 2 PM, also got coastal flood advisories until 9 AM. Most exciting thing about the storm for me was seeing the barometer fall to 28.99" Can't remember the last time that happened. The backside heavy rain was a nice treat too but that's almost over now.

What were the highs today? I hit 91.4 on Sunday.

Forky, doesn't Siberia generally have much lower temps than our side of the globe because of the larger land mass of Asia? It's much rarer to see colder air on our side of the globe than what Siberia experiences- particularly the cold pole region of Yakutsk-Omyakon-Verkhoyansk.

How long will this heat last? With W/NW winds, JFK could hit 90 degrees.

was the damage from this worse than what occurred with the 8.3 quake a few weeks ago?

This would be the place. They didn't mention the lowest pressure, I wonder what it was? And in terms of wind, is this number five in the world behind Patricia, Haiyan, Tip and David? Those are the 4 190+ mph storms I know of.

We hit 90 here around October 10th back in 2007.

looking on Twitter, I saw some nice aurora pics all the way down into Arkansas (Little Rock). According to the people I talked to, this was the best display and flare in over a decade- I guess the sun's waking up!