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3 hours ago, MANDA said:

Just posting story link here since others have posted that they have seen the drones.  I've not seen any.

Interesting.  Seems far beyond just hobbyist drone flyers.  Not sure what is up with so many flying around.

Feel free to remove if too far off topic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14181799/drones-new-jersey-state-emergency-ufo-ocean-sighting.html

 

Mebs!  They forgot to activate the cloaking device!!!

I live near the Trump golf course, so I got a little carried away-aliens in New Jersey and all that.   Apologies for the OT Coneheads reference, now back to the weather....

3 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

It was a cold winter. The highlight was late December into early January, which featured extreme cold. NYC saw the temperature fall to -1° on December 25th.

I remember that well, we were visiting my children's godparents in Manassas, VA (a suburb of DC) over that holiday and their forced hot air HVAC system was running full blast but it could not keep up, I guess those houses weren't designed to deal with temps below zero.  On one particularly frigid night we all went to bed bundled up in our ski jackets lol.  By the time we were back home I had caught a cold from one of my sons that developed into walking pneumonia.  Hopefully this won't be as severe as that was....

Just for perspective IIRC there was a pre-existing drought going on when I moved back to NJ in early 1980 which I think resolved itself a few months after we arrived, and then a really bad drought right after we moved from Middlesex county to our current location in northern Somerset county in 1987. I think I recall national coverage about the 1988 drought on the weather channel back in the day.  I wonder how the current situation compares.

8 minutes ago, Picard said:

Surprised there was no Heat Advisory today, unless I missed it.  Dewpoints of 80+ can be found on a few stations, with Heat Indexes reaching 105-110.  Felt just lovely.  

Just FYI there was a heat advisory for NJ that continues through 8 PM tomorrow.  Ugh.

2 hours ago, gravitylover said:

Every time you post something about how hot the summer of 1966 was it clues me in to why my mom ended up having so much disdain for me at the end of her time here. She was 7-9 months pregnant, living in a 5th floor apartment with no AC and a questionable elevator. I was doomed 

Had our first son in early September in Tampa, FL.  After that, like Scarlett O'hara, I swore "as God is my witness, I'll never go through the last 3 months of pregnancy in a sauna again!"  Our other children were born in late March and the beginning of June (by deliberate design LOL).

Sounds like your mother had some issues though, I doubt it was weather related.  Mine had a full blown case of narcissitic personality disorder.  I loved her, but sadly after she passed I felt a level of peace and safety that I had never experienced before.  My mother in law was the mother that I never had.  She's been gone for years now, but I still miss her terribly.  My condolences on your loss.

IDK if this is relevant/interesting to anyone else, but I remember it snowing in June when I was a young child in rural Sussex County (Newton/Sparta area).  I remember snow on our flowers which were in bloom (I think they were peonies).  This would have been in the early 1960s. I don't know how that happened and/or what the actual low temperature was on that day, from reading discussions on here I understand that under certain conditions snow can fall from the sky even though temperatures are above freezing.  Curious if anyone knows if there a record of that event anywhere.

I'm not qualified to discuss the data with the rest of you, but as a rank amateur I just watched this and it blew my mind.  It's over an hour long, but I thought it might be of interest.  https://rumble.com/v4kl0dn-climate-the-movie-the-cold-truth-martin-durkin.html

3 minutes ago, Dark Star said:

Just my 2 cents, I have never seen "signifcant" accumulating snow in a marginal temperature situation where dry slotting has occurred at some point during the storm.  I don't think it is very common to have a dry slot, followed by heavy accumulating snow under any conditions in the immediate NYC metro area?

I am unqualified to comment here, so please excuse my lack of education, but I seem to vaguely remember that happening here in Somerset County NJ during the big snowstorm in January 1996 - the storm that shut down the state for a few days.  Granted that was an usual storm and I'm sure the temperature profile preceding it was more favorable.

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

Completely agreed and I would also add the mass death of pollinators (which we really need more than most people realize.)

Please excuse the slight OT but I thought this might be of interest.  Israelis have developed AI technology that reduces herbicide and pesticide use massively: https://www.israel21c.org/reducing-herbicide-use-by-distinguishing-weeds-from-crops/

It's being tested out this upcoming growing season in the US:

https://www.precisionfarmingdealer.com/articles/5349-greeneye-technology-and-fbn-announce-strategic-collaboration-and-investment

Certainly hopeful.  Thankfully when it comes to humans, past performance is not necessarily a guarantee of future (harmful) results.

Grew up on a dairy farm in Sussex county, near the former Monastery off of 202.  There was no 287 or 78, of course.  We sold our milk to the Ideal Dairy, which I think is still in business. I recall watching Green Acres as a kid and thinking it was about my parents LOL.  As a young child I recall a time in the early 1960s when Kennedy Airport (then Idlewild) was closed because of a bad snowstorm.  We had a 1 mile+ long driveway off of 202 and were snowed in for a long time - well over a week.  Thankfully we had a generator, fuel tanks and firewood but by the time someone came to plow us out we were running low on canned goods.  After that my mother (who grew up in Newark and was used to being able to walk around the corner to the store) started hoarding canned goods.  Even though we moved to the suburbs when I was 8 the canned goods thing continued, I don't think she ever really got over it....People find it hard to imagine that was New Jersey, but it was.  Who knows, it could happen again!  These things tend to be cyclical over long periods of time.

Around this date in 1896 - interesting retrospective

11 minutes ago, HailMan06 said:

https://newjersey.news12.com/national-weather-service-confirms-tornado-touched-down-in-bernardsville

Confirmed tornado went right through my hometown yesterday.

DS works in a pharmacy in Bville and told me they lost power and were packing the medications requiring refrigeration in ice etc.  He said it was crazy, power was out most of his way home past the small strip mall in Lyons near the VA medical center.

And now for something completely different lol.  As a complete rank amateur who lurks, I thought I would share this video which I just watched and thought was really excellent.  It might bore you weather experts but amateurs like me will find this easy to understand and generally enlightening.  It also provides a little contrast to the winter we are dealing with here in February 2023.

37 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Tomorrow will destroy it

I'm in Jersey and the pjm interconnect has done well as they generally do.  I worked for a NJ utility for 5+ years.  It is very fortunate that tomorrow is a Sunday, given what is expected. IDK how all of the remote working has changed things since I left, but I'm thinking we dodge that bullet tomorrow.  Not sure if that would be the case if tomorrow was a business day.

Pouring snow in northern Somerset County near 78.