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If the usually toasty GEMLAM doesn't get us to 70 that means we probably won't.

Marshes prevent flooding and are home to many important species. They should be tearing houses down that were built on them, not the other way around.

You can't really compare the two because we are on the coast and get a bunch of systems they miss out on. So I have no idea.

Central Park's average annual temperatures from the last several years (which is easily cooler than Newark and LGA) is about the same as Washington DC's average annual temp from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. And that's the warmer location, not to be confused with the cooler Dulles Airport.

Hello. I'm talking about evapotranspiration in summer causing more water evaporating at a quicker rate. You know how how much more strain a +3 July puts on water supplies? Now add a couple more degrees over that for an above normal July for our current normals. So say a +5 July or August. If you think you can retain the same amount of water with months that much warmer than they used to be you would be mistaken. I was talking about parched surfaces and water supplies and drought.

If that person prefers covered chins over covered feet it was well worth the cut.

If you get 40 inches now with temps 3 degrees warmer, it's not the same as getting 40 inches way back when it was cooler.

A trace here The ground looked barely wet when I woke up but the rain gauge didn't register anything, neither did a couple others nearby.

I love the later light. And I'm a morning person!

So the dam was never rebuilt?

Thank you!

How's the foliage in Rockland County and Bear Mountain looking like? Any good or too early?

It's 50 degrees up there haha

KUs will continue. Florida just got one for gods sake. Overall averages will probably decline though.

I bet this is a combination of the Hunga Tonga water vapor injection coupled with international shipping cleaning up aerosol pollution accelerating/demasking the general warming trend of the 2020s. Did we really need to clean up shipping? For gods sake this couldn't come at a worse time.

We've had crap stretches for snow in March before but taking a quick glance back, this is the worst one on record.

It just stopped snowing in March like someone flipped a light switch

Yup, all crap to varying degrees. Only @FPizz has had a good winter since then when a 300 foot wide band of snow dropped 20 inches over his house.

21-22 not good. You mean 20-21.

It's kind of crazy that they don't explain exactly why and how the numbers were adjusted per station.

Very breezy this morning. I bottomed out at 45 degrees when the winds were calm but they picked up and stayed up after around 4AM. Then temps jumped to 49 and stayed there for the rest of the early morning.

Indeed, yet the temperature adjustment made to the 1981-2020 normals was to make a revision downward, as if Central Park was running too warm.

Well I find this kind of absurd. If there is a problem with the data why isn't it adjusted at the monthly level and then posted online? You know what's interesting, I just checked and there is no missing data at all from Central Park for those 30 Octobers, and it certainly hasn't changed location during that time, which were the two main reasons given for doing temperature adjustments. And did it have instrument issues that they needed a fix that resulted in a whopping 0.4 adjustment? I find it very silly.

For a 30 year average 0.4 is a lot. Last fall because of frustration of not being able to find prior 30 year averages I calculated the 30 year averages all the way back to 1870 using all the monthly data available on the NWS site for Central Park.

When you take the October averages from 1981-2010 from the Central Park records available on the NWS site it comes out to 57.3 degrees. Do you know how they would arrive to 56.9?