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Well this week is out. I think we agree on that. Down to 12 days. I dont necessarily agree with the OP about no snowfall, but we are now into the second half of the game and we are down in the score

Monthly Departures through the first 1/3 of the month (1/11)EWR: +3.5ISP: +2.8NYC: +2.3JFK: +2.2TTN: +1.5LGA: +1.0 Is it cold thus far? And what is coming in the last 10 days that is going to pull it down? Because this week…its not looking like its pulling down these positive departures by a hell of a lot

You keep waiting on that cold. This is a warm January that no one on this board wanted to see. We are not waiting for a brief warm up to end. We are in a warm month waiting for a brief cool down. And that is a big difference in expectations

Snow squall!! 44F 42F 41F almost comical to watch twmpp

I think we do OK this season but it’s small ball. But yes, the season has totally changed its feel. As I said last week these extended warm-ups are winter killers.

Looks like NYC is not in that box… just saying

that last sentence is important and needs to be acknowledged more. these winters are warmer and with less snow than they would have been 20 years ago. 94-95 today could have been a shutout or single digit snowfall. The 2020s have the worst avg snowfall in recorded NYC history. Lets see if that changes

This extended warmth in January is what I call a winter killer. Basically a week straight of March. Awful. 47F. Feels good at least

I still think 93/94 was better. That epic ice storm that set the floor for a snowpack that never died. I fell more times that winter than any other. Of course sandwiched between was that awful El Nino winter

Waldbaums roof collapse caused by the wet snow

Mistake 1: moving back here Mistake 2: NY entered into a Clean Energy agenda and put huge mandates on utility companies to move off gas powered electricity which costs billions and that is being passed on to you thru huge hikes. Mistake 3: simultaneous with mistake 2, the former governor forced them to close Indian point. This clean energy source provided 25% of New York’s electricity. Long story short, enjoy your bill. It’s gonna be higher next year.

My now dead neighbor in Queens when we went out to shovel “nothing special here. just a path.” As a kid, I knew this was extraordinary then. That was really the first in a parade of epic storms that spanned the next 20 years in the NYC area. and if you lived in Queens back then, you remember that snow removal in New York City was much more primitive than it is now, even though it wasn’t that long ago. A lot less salt was used and the secondary and tertiary streets sometimes took days to get cleared. we lived on a secondary street in Whitestone and during those big storms we got a plow width and nothing more. Nowadays that would never happen

full snow cover still! what a nice xmas week for many of us with little dustings every night!

I mean its been BN temp wise and basically normal snow wise. But after last several winters its great. this hasnt been gangbusters tho

It wants to snow this winter…keep that in mind with the emotions when tracking the next storm. Happy New Year! 22F and a nice new blanket on top of existing snow

I can’t remember the last time I had full snow cover on New Year’s Eve. Remind me of when I was a kid. I want to say 2017? Wasnt that the brutally cold xmas week?

Light snow in Westchester. Still have full snow cover

Didnt you say that about Christmas week? And arent we going to be at or about freezing through the first week?

They got Times Square cleared out in no time! Real effort on part of city

Take what you can get after last few winters.

this is a totally crazy ride across PA today: 1. Fog and rain on snow mid 30s 2. Brilliant sun and 50 3. Snow and 20s on other end

This is true. it froze in wading river. and that is wide open there

theres no disputing this. snow fell and it stayed around longer in the 5 boros in my lifetime. And I dont need a record to confirm that. its just much warmer day to day now.

If CPK got 4.3 this isnt really a bust. Just a low end of the range. I lived thru busts in the 80s and 90s before we had all this technology in the palm of our hand. You would go to bed expecting snow and you would wake up to grass. Enjoy it! As someone rightly pointed out, a snowstorm from the NW is a rarity in NYC. Also a rarity (lately) in NYC: a snowy December.

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