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20 minutes ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

The last 6 weekends (before this past one) were warm.

It wasn't spring... That was winter. And the 14th/15th were not warm up here (+1.7 and -2.1), so average weekend. I loved it, skiing all day in the Catskills where it was snowing. But now that we are in spring, we will have the cold, wet weekend pattern because Little League is starting up 

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

March has been very warm. A couple of cooler days doesn't negate that fact. 

It has been, just not on the weekends haha. Like today going to the upper 60s low 70s for the next few days. Welcome back to the work week! 

23 minutes ago, psv88 said:

43 today. Warm week ahead and then another shitty weekend 

That is how you know it is spring in the northeast. Same plot every year now. Usually mid-week teases you with beautiful weather before the weekend is frigid, windy, and wet. 

Was great in the Catskills today at Belleayre. The snow is hanging on, but last week was brutal. Another bough of heat and wet like that and more places will be shutting down early. But today it was windy at the Belle and SNOWING! Most of the day had one and off flurries and squalls. The snow was fast but carvable. 

11 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Like what you see in Denver or Flagstaff. Winds switching to onshore so temps down to low 70s. 

That’s what I said to my family. Wild. 
 

The thing I hate about the end of winter is you never know when you’ll get a good winter again these days. My son is 7 and this was the first good winter of his life. Every summer lately you know will be hot and stay for a long time. 

Can’t get over the snow and heat at the same time! 

Very crazy to be at a playground with about 4-6 inches of snow on the ground with the air temp of 74. Wild times. 

And it might not all be dog $hit. There could be some human mixed in there as well... At least when it was frozen it wouldn't get everywhere.

Not sure any amount of rain can wash away all the dog $hit on the sidewalks. 

It is kind of funny that while we had a cold winter, the vast majority of the country saw one of the warmest winters on record. Florida, even with the cold spell, saw their 2nd warmest winter, DJF period. Looking at the developing pattern, I do think spring will come in very quickly. I do think ski season will end up ending earlier than normal throughout the region. I also think this will be one of the warmer summers. Enjoy the snow cover while you can because it will be brown and muddy after it melts.

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

No grass growing anytime soon around here-he must be based in the south

We will be luckily to see it growing by mid-April. Thankfully, because I have too much work to worry about mowing twice a week until May. Also, we have Banana Ball tickets for Yankee Stadium in late-April. I fully expect that game will be 33 with a light mist or 90 with a dew point of 88. No in-between.

3 hours ago, NJwx85 said:

We deserve a nice, warm, early Spring after the brutal Winter we have just endured. Yes, it snowed a lot, which was fun at times. There were also periods of brutal, bone chilling cold and dry weather and more ridiculously windy days than I can count.

This winter as a whole was not as windy as last winter. Much colder yes, but definitely not as windy given by the much lower number of wind holds on ski lifts throughout the season. And last springs winds... Well that was awful. But deserving a nice, warm spring and actually getting one is completely different. Springs by nature lately kind of just suck here. Windy, mist, miserable clouds for weeks on end teetering between 33 and 55. Then like heaven's gate opening we switch into summer mode. I'll actually met a guy on the gondola at Belleayre this season living my dream. Skiing all winter here and then heads to Phoenix or Florida depending on the year for 5 weeks at the end of March (to avoid the season I just described). 

10 years ago...

1 hour ago, LoboLeader1 said:

NWS has temps progged to be near 40 here from Weds thru the rest of the week.

 

Average high for midtown is now 44. Average for my area is exactly 40. Looks average to just below for the week. 

We are back under a mega band here in Patterson, NY. Snow is really cranking. 

10 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Next weeks storm keeps trending sourh

This was once a cutter

I know you will get a lot of people saying we don't want snow, but they all should. Nobody wants a cutter with feet of snow on the ground. Basements would be flooded. I love the snow, so I'll always take it, but the absolute best thing that could happen for us in a drought would be a good snow pack that slowly melts into the spring to percolate into the soil and recharge ground water. That would help tremendously.

Just now, Nibor said:

I wanna go outside so bad but I'm stuck working remotely.

Pretend you lost power or internet 

The drifts are so impressive and this and I have been under all morning. When I was out making a snow blower pass we were roughly 15-18 with drifts that look like they are over 2 feet. 

Just got back from a nice walk! My son wanted to go out "snow plow hunting". We caught two. It is really coming down out there. He said he is moving to a place where this happens every winter.

Big update, the LIRR will be shutting down on many branches this evening. That is the first big change to MTA service. 

Starting to snow here. Still have a good 3-6 on the ground still from January. This is getting exciting! 

1 minute ago, Tekken_Guy said:

The GFS's big cutting down on the forecasts seems to say otherwise.

That's because you are living and dying by models runs. Globals are not as great to pinpoint amounts now. This happened 100% last storm too and the NWS was pretty much spot on. Unless the high-resolutions models and what is currently happening begins to look like it won't happen, go by the NWS forecast. 

4 minutes ago, Rjay said:

A lot of these posts were hidden before I read them but seriously guys, get a grip. 

Just don't hide good information. My posts were hidden and based on the law. Many people do not know your insurance will not cover you when a travel ban is in place. It is serious and can bankrupt the average person easily. And if you MUST travel be sure that your employer will back you by calling you essential. I know there are cases in education where food service is clearly essential, but insurance didn't want to cover those employees getting to campus. The employer then had to do battle to say they were. 

Just now, coastalplainsnowman said:

Speaking of which at some point would love to get you and other mets / technical folks take on what you think about on air mets increasingly showing the models and kind of deferring to them, rather than interpreting them along with all their other inputs and making a forecast.  Just showing me, for example,  that the GFS gives us a foot and the Euro gives us 2" doesn't really tell me anything, other than that it might snow or it might not.

I'm not a met, but in environmental science at the college level. But part of the reason for what you are seeing for on-air mets, is many of them are actually not mets anymore. I think Lonnie Quinn is great, but his formal training is not in meteorology. His degree is in communications. He has really committed to learning meteorology though. Many have not though and simply follow the models. 

Metro-North to be hourly tomorrow. Sigh... I hope they don't damage more trains trying to keep service going. It was a disaster after the last storm for weeks after because of the mechanical failures caused by snow getting into electronics.