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And why? Just curious. I read about inane records on here all the time. First CPK was chasing an inch of snow; now they are chasing 2 inches. I imagine if they get 2 inches, there is a 3 inch record we could discuss. The first 2 weeks of February have to make a run at the warmest first two weeks. Easily well above +5

I don’t know about the second half but for the first half of the month we have to be making a run at the warmest ever right? +10 by the 13th?

So, they close the LIE on summer evenings for roadwork…for the 35 years of my life. Fun fact, if you find yourself at Topgolf and they happen to close the mainline road…you will exit the parking lot into an epic traffic jam that you are forced to turn into. There is no other way out. It was like exiting Giants Stadium after a game and I ended up going eastbound to cut south to go west. Enjoy the moodflakes and brewskies! Be glad those cones arent up on the LIE tonight

i was up in Lake Placid and same story there with mid 30s til saturday night

what is interesting as how cold the south east has been. That’s a little bit different from the past several years. I was in Florida for a month between December and January and you couldn’t buy warm day.

There’s a difference, eventually those do get complete. now we are running out of time to complete anything here. 6 weeks. First two are now shit. Tick tock

I think there is, I think we’re watching it play out right now. You went thru the 2010s pulling in cold air because the storms were so large. Now there’s no cold air to even pull in. I want to be wrong unlike some of the guys on here like get their jollies pissing on people snow hopes. We had a marginal climate for snow before. now it’s much much warmer I mean, it’s really unbelievably warmer. I can’t believe how warm January is now versus (in my mind) just a few years ago. And every year. My gut tells me we’re done for the winter. That one week was probably it. Hoping for a one off. but as you’re cruising through the heart of winter +5 to 10 every day, you are really fucked if you like snow. Forget about sustained ground cover. Just a mess

I remember 1997 well. But this is just month after month of +5

It’s hard to ignore that this is a storm with good track on 1/28and it’s just raining. This is what many guys predicted would happen in the 2010s. I just think climate is too warm and we turned the corner here now. At least in the New York City area. Going forward snow will be more of a rarity if true

This is a very stubborn airmass. Im up in Lake Placid, and while there is plenty of snow on the ground about 40 miles north of Albany, it is still above freezing after sunset and has been for most of the past 4 days. Just a shitty airmass in what has been shitty winter

I am so sick of this weather… It’s like Nova Scotia on a bad day in July. Terrible.

as somebody that uses both scales for work, I don’t think centigrade is more precise than Fahrenheit at all. Quite the opposite if you actually utilize decimal places with Fahrenheit. Not that I’m advocating for the United States system. But most weather forecasts throughout the world are done using Celsius without a decimal point, and it’s a lot less precise than anything we have in the United States, because each degree covers a much larger interval

Heres a crazy thought…what if its right?

DC is much warmer than us. Normal high there for today is 45F sometimes that gets glossed over. Still very warm in the low 70s but it would be much warmer if it was in the low 70s here relative to normal

This is a weird thread. Why no maps??

i’ve been in shorts all day. Sometimes you have to remember that it’s the end of January. 51F now.

Isn’t it transient though?

well, they better get used to it. It sure seems to be the new normal. They’ll be some good winters with a lot of bad ones in between. it’s just too warm. Humans evolve. can’t cling to the past and hope it goes back

sorry. It’s just frustrating that people write off 1/3 of the forum. Back to weather. I think it’s an interesting set up because it’s the opposite of what we deal with most of the time it’s rain, transitioning to snow with cold air rushing in. The question is how quickly can the cold air get in here and can it reach the coast. The guys deriding this as a marginal air mass: the cold air will be in place. It’s a matter of timing with the storm. the cold air coming in is not marginal

287 Special!! Yoo hoo

I feel like I should be under a dense fog advisory. Very surprised that I’m not. Well under a quarter of a mile here

That’s right! you had the snowy week in January you get another one in February and before you know it you cobble together a winter with some memories. What else do you want? A lot of these guys on here are chasing a number for a record book and they don’t care if it melts the next day. I loved this past week! I don’t remember the last time we had snow on the ground for two weeks in January and I’m pretty close to that. Who cares if it was only about 5 or 6 inches of snow between three different events? I think my kids and I have been sledding five or so times already. I’m hoping for more.

Thanks all!!

anybody with an iPhone having an issue posting photos here? I always do that screenshot thing and it’s never been an issue up until about a week ago and I can’t get the file small enough to upload anymore. Thoughts?

you didnt fall for that 65F did you? The clown map of temperatures