the_other_guy

Meanwhile in Utah…

Full thunderstorm now… Just a bad year. Nothing abnormal about this at all.

38F and rain in the Hills of Westchester…what a winter!

Lake Placid…unfrozen.

I’ll just say this… We are comparing this a lot to 97/98 That was saved at the end from a shut out. What is the wintertime temperature in now versus late 90s? It’s a huge difference. I hope something happens but I wouldn’t bank on it

this isn’t a bad year. This is historic, and this is climate change. A part of me almost hopes that the city gets totally shut out so we can stop the bs with the bad year. This is what New York City winters look like more and more going forward

yeah, but that could also be OTS. That’s the failure in that logic. And if the southeast ridge really is that strong, then we’re done for snow here. No reason to track anything. That’s the failure in the whole attitude.

I don’t like the term snow drought. It isn’t intellectually honest. there has been plenty of moisture. It isn’t frozen because we are experiencing never-ending warmth. The warmth is the story, not the lack of snow or the lack of moisture to create snow

NY Post has a whole story for tomorrows paper on the impending snow record. Prepare to be bombarded in your newsfeed if you are on social media

Of course it will be. You think youre going into May +5-10 for the year?? Given that this gets made up in Mar/Apr timeframe

I wish there was an AMEN button!

Winter 2022-2023

Nice snow shower here. 30F

Never started. Been a bunch of cutters on here since mid November. Just some hype about a great pattern and a 3 day super cold shot. Youre the only one that keeps reiterating that it is over. Move on. its a question of a 0 for CPK or a little bit to save face

Nothing like dodging thunderstorms on way into JFK on January 12th. WTF is going on??

Pattern looks a bit different now over rest of month. Run of the mill AN in 40s with two cutters and associated warm up. That big surge of +20 heat seems muted

It’s too warm. You’re rooting for snow in November.

Not only is that a lock the question is by how much This is Dec 15 territory. Rewriting the books.

Something to look forward to next year…

Just like this. Rain, rain, more rain

actually, they’re having big problems out west. while this year has been good, they are totally dependent on natural snow because the ski areas are too big to make the kind of man made snow possible. They have been dealing with years of snow drought and rapid warming. Skiing out west is in a precarious situation. A small ski area in the northeast with the ability to pump out a lot of man made snow when it is cold is in the best position to weather climate change of the next 50 years. Beyond that it becomes untenable. Even more precarious are the Alps. Terrible climate change situation there

The nostalgia for the 96 Blizzard is because it was the first in a series of mega snowstorms that ultimately ended 7 years ago with the largest snowfall ever. It was a great period to be a snow lover in NYC and ultimately ushered in a much warmer winter climate

Poor Lake Placid. Hosting the World University Games next week. Whiteface has 42 of 96 trails open. Their Olympics were a similar weather disaster. You can blame them for this awful weather! Hey Ho…32F in Westchester this morning!

In a perverse way, almost rooting for the 0 inch winter in CPK!p Can you imagine the hysterics on twitter? You know its coming shortly either way… Anyone else with me on this?

Honestly, the earth can’t really sustain the amount of people has on it. we are reaching the tipping point of population exceeding natural resources to sustain it. Declining life expectancy is a natural solution to a natural problem. The Earth will adjust itself. It has done it many times already. If not, I would be looking at stegosauruses as I crawl down the Deegan emitting CO2 with my Jeep. If you want more concrete factors specifically for the US starting to die earlier: whites in poor communities are being inundated with fentanyl and opioids… and it is killing them. That has been bringing down the life expectancy of the US for a while now.