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    Met Summer Banter

    in New England

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, DotRat_Wx said:

    If you're looking to blame the media and liberals for mandates and masks, look at yourself in the mirror. 

    You can blame them for introducing thousands of infected people coming across the border into unsuspecting communities....Mostly in the South.

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    Summer Banter 2021

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Juliancolton said:
    1. Yes, you are privileged, and your totally baseless comment that "most people" won't work for a decent living shows that you have entirely the wrong attitude about it. I also have a pool, a bit bigger than yours in fact, and I'm privileged too. Acknowledging one's privilege has no shame.
    2. You could have made your point about heat sans the sanctimony and braggadocio. As homeowners, you and I choose a lifestyle that requires outdoor maintenance in some pretty appalling conditions. It shouldn't be a surprise, since it always gets hot in the summer. If another person's situation allows them to enjoy the sensation of hot weather without having to worry about the implications, more power to them. It's extremely tasteless to call names and cast aspersions.
    3. According to the CDC, cold exposure kills more Americans annually than heat-caused illnesses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/17/cold-temperatures-kill-more-americans-than-hot-ones-cdc-data-show/. If you want to discuss concern for the elderly, let's talk about the 11,500 annual emergency room visits caused by shoveling snow: https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2021/02/16/why-shoveling-snow-can-be-dangerous/
    4. Like 95% of people on this board, I detest this weather. Just important to keep some perspective and realize that none of us is particularly special.

    You obviously are clueless regarding the current economy where millions of people remain on extended unemployment and supplement despite help wanted signs everywhere. .As for the vast majority of my neighbors back in Warwick the 20 yrs when I was a cop, I don't seem to remember very many of them on the road with me to Chinatown at 4am or on the way home with me at 10 or 11 pm after OT or second jobs to keep my wife home to raise kids. Most of them worked 9-5 office jobs. I was no privileged. I worked a paper route and odd jobs after school since age 12. Bought my own car at 17 and insurance. Parents fed and clothed me and threw me 500 bucks for my wedding. I took a damn civil service test that any "unprivileged" person of any color could've taken and worked my ass off. To say that I'm clueless that I contest that the majority of people don't work an average 12 a day an drive a 3 hrs commuting to and from lower Manhattan is even more asinine than your assertion that I'm privileged..As for your heat/cold point you obviously have not been in a NYC public housing apt with no AC in an extended heatwave . Families sometimes with mattresses on the floor 8 people crammed in a 2BR suffering to try and sleep drenched in their underwear at night from 90+ degree temps inside all night long. The elderly there can stay inside in winter when it's cold or icy. They can't escape the deadly heat in their apartments. I have seen this first hand

    Summer Banter 2021

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    59 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

    I know, right? My 70k gallon pool is gross, not refreshing at all. Even my private spa is too warm, I had to give my live-in masseuse the day off since there was just no point. Anyone who claims to "love" warm wx has never tried to climb into their Gulfstream G550 that's been sitting in the sun since getting back from breakfast in Naples. Normal people like you and me will never be able to reason with these folks. 

    98/77 is not warm. It is horrendously uncomfortable to anyone having to do any physical task outside and can be deadly to elderly without AC. If you think I am privileged to have a home with a backyard pool, you should've worked the 50- 60 hr work weeks I did for 20 yrs as a cop along with off duty moonlighting.. Comparing a nice home obtained from ass busting hard work that most people won't do to Uber wealth inherited (Gulfstream) is asinine and petty jealousy.

    SVR/FF potential late today-Friday June 29-July 2, 2021

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    25 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

    How is heat exciting? It's just miserable and most people stay inside anyway.

    The only way it would be exciting from a meteorological perspective is if we challenged all time highs like in the Pacific NW.

    I much prefer storms but it appears we won't even get that.

    Thing about people who "love" days like yesterday. Generally they are not the one responsible for paying the high electric bills. They are not outside cutting their large lawns and other constant outside home maintaining which is brutal in this weather. There is also zero regard for poor and elderly who are literally suffering living in non air conditioned apartments with no cross ventilation and 90 degrees inside 24 hrs a day .Hell, my 33k gallon pool is 86 degrees due to this swamp azz crap . What good is it to swim in bath water?. There are no redeeming qualities to this extreme heat compared to the danger it poses to rational adults.

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    March 2021

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    10 hours ago, mattinpa said:

    Some people just like the heat and sone others like extreme weather to follow. Similar to how some like the cold and extreme winter weather. I can’t stand the heat (especially if humid), but I see the reasoning of those who want it.

    They obviously don't pay 400 dollar a month electric bills to central AC their 2500 Sq ft homes. I rooted for 100 degree days on Staten Island growing up in the 1970's. House was always cool and the pool was in the yard. Never crossed my mind about my parents electric bill

    OBS and nowcast 10A-5P both Mon and Tue 2/22-23

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, EpicHECS said:

    Scotchtown - 211 into Middletown was terrible earlier. So was 84 for a good hour +. They didn't pretreat the roads for this event and it was a mistake. Are you sure you're at "light snow"? It's dumping here. 

    There was a shadow area on many of the models that ran thru the middle of the County N/S. I noticed it on radar earlier when it was dumping over here in Cornwall. It showed up as a persistent narrow light blue stripe. I saw it for quite awhile and thought it might translate East but it really was focused out there. Good job by the clown maps showing this since yesterday. 

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    February 18th ?19th?

    in New England

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, weathafella said:

    I don’t believe there is snow in CT right now.  Radar shows some potential  virga  but it will be awhile before it’s snowing there.

    I live just South of Newburgh in the middle of that band. There is not a flake yet here let alone 30 miles to my East in Danbury. 

    Monday Feb 15 - midday Feb 16, 2021 Significant Winter Ice Event interior

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said:

    If the temps were in the lower to mid 20’s  and held steady it would make a great factor in ice accumulation. Point and click forecast for me is a high of 28 tomorrow and temps rising slightly Monday night into Tuesday.

    North of Storm King Mtn will lock in the LL cold considerably longer that down by the RT 17 Harriman-Middletown corridor in this situation. The big ice will be in NW Orange County and then from Cornwall North to Marlboro. We drop dews tonight with the light northerly drain down the river

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    Major Nor'easter near blizzard (6"+ most of our area-best chance 20-30" north of I78 in ne PA, nw NJ, se NYS)-ice-rain-power outage NYC subforum late Sunday Jan 31-early Tue Feb 2.

    in New York City Metro

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, bluewave said:

    That 12z solution would help to restore some balance to our recent snowfall distribution. We went from 09-10 to 10-11 with a decent balance in snowfall outcomes across our forum. Then the jackpots It shifted over to Long Island from 12-13 to 17-18. Since 18-19, the interior has been grabbing all the jackpots. 

    It's called climo. We jackpot up here in Orange Cty because we average 50+ inches of snow a year with elevation. Pounding CNJ one storm isn't any sort of redistribution. It is a by chance large storm that basically makes up most of their seasonal total. You are not going to average more than the NW high ground for more than 1 winter of suppression. One can argue NYC has had an unusually snowy decade and is due for several snowless winters to make up for the averages recent inflation

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