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2 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

No it will just be more like Florida.

It's going to happen.

temps in the 40s are just too cold.

 

That would still kill off our aquatic life here as it is outside their tolerance levels. Our fish are not tropical. Besides don't you like winter? Regardless yes, it will happen, but hopefully not in my lifetime. Once atmospheric CO2 levels reach 750ppm acidification will prevent corals from building reefs and shellfish won't be able to make shells (so dead). 

17 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

and JFK hitting 80.

I hope the oceans warm enough in the next few decades that seabreezes become a thing of the past.

 

So we can kill of aquatic life faster???

Weird how in winter the models always correct warmer as we get closer to a date and in April they always correct cooler and wetter for the past many years now. I’ll die on the hill that April is our worst weather month. 

3 hours ago, snowman19 said:

Very confident we see our 1st 80+ degree high temp in the metro area since October by the end of this month

Tuesday honestly could be a sneaky just barely 80 if we get enough sun. We always seem to over perform this time of year if the winds are low and the sun is out longer before any clouds roll in. 

It’s interesting how lately it is almost like clockwork that our Aprils are below average for temps and wetter than average. 

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

They almost always go to May

That’s my point. Was an okay year with lots of downturns. Their good years they usually get to the first of June. But usually you gotta really be dedicated and okay with mud. I’m just shocked Catamount was blowing snow for the weekend even though Saturday looks like a wash out even there. 

Heading up to Belleayre tomorrow to play on the 4-5 inches they received yesterday and last night. Was going to go today but the potential for wind holds kept us away. Like our last time out this year. Overall it wasn’t a horrible season but definitely not the best. Had some big ups and some major downs but hopefully next season will be less torrential rains throughout the season at random intervals. Looks like Killington will be able to make it to mid May or later this year at least. 

16 hours ago, psv88 said:

Spring is by far my least favorite season. The others I like, spring is the worst 

People give me looks when I say this, but spring blow. Between mosquitoes, bipolar weather, and mud, I’ll wait for summer. Two favorites are winter and summer followed closely by fall. Spring can go F itself.

47 minutes ago, bluewave said:

This rough pattern for the beaches looks to continue right into the fall. Record Atlantic SSTs plus a developing La Niña. So we could be looking at a high number of named storms and ACE. Even if the strongest landfall impacts are down around the SE and Gulf, the beaches aren’t ready for a big hurricane swell season. Closer landfalls would be even worse since many spots are in such bad shape. Not to mention the flooding from rainfall should high amounts of tropical moisture filter into our region like we saw a few summers ago.

Maybe it is my ignorance, but what is ACE?

2 hours ago, the_other_guy said:

I flew the redeye in this morning from west coast.

You had to see the storms we had to pick around in St Louis! The line between St. Louis and Chicago had tops to 45,000 feet at 4 o’clock in the morning at the beginning of March! It was crazy

Well that is terrifying for March 4/5. But on the flip side the snow out west  must have looked nice for the first part of the flight.

4 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Ha-we get an extra hour when we're more likely to use it.   a 4:23am sunrise is not worthwhile to many.   I'm with you-go with one or the other

I've always thought we should be on Atlantic time and call it a day. No changing our clocks twice a year. Poor eastern Maine being so far east makes it even worse to be on eastern time. The Eastern time zone is so large because everyone wanted to be on NYC hours for the financial markets etc. But even looking at articles like this, it shows you maybe we aren't right: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/should-new-england-change-time-zones/. 

4 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

upton had 51 here with cloudy skies instead it's party sunny and 56 I'd say that's a double bust

Interesting I always saw 57 on Apple weather and TWC app for today under mostly cloudy skies. Here in The Bronx it is exactly that. But small localized differences are always the case this time of year, especially with water temps through the area. 

3 hours ago, golfer07840 said:

Biggest issue with that is, the mornings. Sunrise wouldn't happen til after 8 AM for much of December. All for what? An extra hour of daylight when it's cold out anyway? 

I'm not for either way. I just think the practice is dumb. Likewise I hate when people say "we get an extra hour of daylight", no we just shift it. When I teach this students ask why we don't just keep the extra hour of daylight. We don't! Hell China doesn't even do timezones. 

Where is everyone that is saying big bust on the temps today? It is 56 out and forecast I saw was for 57. This is starting to get like the people that say their 1 inch is 5 inches and the storm over performed. 

10 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

The 2nd part is true-it doesn't save any costs on electricity.  The first part is a problem you'd have 8:20 sunrises here and 9:20am in the western ends of each time zone in Dec-Jan.  Not happening.

The whole system needs an overhaul. But even in Ohio people support not changing the clocks. But even so I don’t get why people are so worried about morning daylight. The evening commute is just as important and statistically more people are out for the evening commute. People always talk about students going to school in the dark, well they already do all winter here. High school busses start picking up before 6AM where I am. Those students already go to school in the dark basically the whole school year.  We didn’t even have a Federal standard for it until 1967 and we have moved it multiple times. I would okay with going back to the old way the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. But we’ll see what happens in the future as the “Sunshine Protection Act” was passed by the Senate but not the House. I honestly don’t see it changing anytime soon, but it is worth thinking about permanent DST or EST. 

1 hour ago, ag3 said:

I specifically said the next 20 days. Not the next week.

But where are you seeing this? The models over the next 10 days are 40s to low 50s with lots of foggy nights and rainy days. The following 10 days look like one to three days of 60 but damp and chilly days interspersed. Not exactly ideal. Just early April weather in early March. 

9 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

There are plenty of us who love the seasons being the way they are supposed to be. I’m a horticulturalist and these early warmups are awful for dormant plants. If it’s going to get warm early it has to stay warm or we risk damage. 

It’s what people don’t get. This can also give our pollinators hell. Not to mention people don’t equate March with ticks but they are out when it is warm! 

19 minutes ago, ag3 said:

Agree. Love DST.

We should honestly just keep DST year round. Changing clocks doesn’t do anything it was originally proposed to do. 

22 minutes ago, ag3 said:

It’s going to approach 70 degrees today and the next 20 days will feature plenty of 60s and 70s.

Not up by me in the foothills. Have today and one day next week in the 60s, the rest are 40s with rain. Spring always sucks except for those rare warm days with sun. The rest is mud, bugs, and more mud. 

Just now, psv88 said:

Wake up later 

It’s for work. Gotta get the day started. 

2 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

Next Sunday is going to be amazing. After 7pm sunsets come back

Yes rainy and in the forties is going to be so amazing. Nothing like spring in the northeast. But at least it will be light out after 7 although it sucks for those of us getting up at 5 that we get an extra hour of dark. 

So question for all the people that prefer rain over snow this time of year.  What can you do with this absolute garbage weather. This is literally the most depressing type of weather and why I wish I could be in Phoenix from March to mid-May. Too warm to snow to enjoy snow sports and too cold to enjoy being outside and then just wet. Days like today even with the heat in just feel damp and raw. 

41 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

Just to add, the arctic air staying locked in Eurasia ended up being one of the biggest red flags….that has been a staple in some of our worst winters of all time 

There hasn't even been much arctic air there either. Some small periods of outbreaks, but nothing sustained. 

5 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

why werent there these wildfires back when we were much drier?

2002 was extremely dry-- much more than we are now and yet there were no wildfires?

The grass was parched yellow all summer....

We may have been dry, but they weren’t and they still had snow cover during winter. We are in a positive feedback loop with fires now, less snow cover in Canada leads to more fire. 

It is odd how so many people seem giddy with the warmth. Do I like warm weather? Sure do, but not on February 27th. People telling MJO to move etc, umm this isn’t our normal weather either, so quite acting like 60s by late February is normal and a good thing.