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I'm still surprised BUF hugged the NAM so hard for this one.

32 and S in Winchester, 12:45pm on 4/18. Pretty impressive.

That makes a lot of sense to me, but why would BUF be so aggressive?

Of all the Mesos, seems the NAM is most generous and west...by a lot. Seem BUF is really buying the NAM.

Canadian MUCH less:

I was just joking, but turning out to be legit...lol

Lake enhancement on the south shore is gonna be insane.

Wait for the NW shift...

All of these fantasy charts are 384hrs, not really believing anything outside of 5 days. My guess the above snowfall comes 10+ days out.

I was just reading about that...like a 3-day blizzard...I'd take that in any month...lol

It ain't over 'til it's over...

That dude is nuts...

Basically greed is the driver in all of this. If everyone decided to keep YoY prices flat, they could.

Do you have any articles about this? Would be interested to learn more....

Which means the inevitable pop is coming afterwards.

I'll take one more big one. Then dry and warm through June.

That's like 14 days away. We all know how much trouble the models have even within 3 days. I'm all for 1 more big one though.

Again! Dang.

Fantasyland @336hrs

You guys are the early-Spring jackpot...

The lake Erie impact on temps is really amazing.

Nice article about NYC's reduction in crime...lots of collaboration between organizations to help reduce crime. Collaboration is hard to come by now-a-days. https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-new-york-became-safe-full-story-13197.html Interesting: But after New York City’s astonishing crime drop in the nineties—much of which Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner William Bratton credited to the Broken Windows approach—a firestorm of academic criticism erupted, claiming that Broken Windows was racist, it harassed and criminalized the poor, it constituted cultural imperialism, it amounted to overzealous “zero tolerance,” and so on. Moreover, the crime drop had nothing to do with Broken Windows (or any other police action); it was the result of changes in the economy or other broad social trends. Some criminologists attacked Broken Windows to advance their careers, realizing that variations on the theme of “Broken Windows disproved” were an effective way to call attention to their own work. But for most, ideology was at stake. Not only did the effectiveness of Broken Windows undermine the decades-long assumption that only large-scale social and economic change could prevent crime; it also meant that breakthroughs in crime prevention could come from the Right—anathema to criminologists, most of whom occupied the far Left. Still, critics of Broken Windows had one good point: New York provided, at most, anecdotal and correlational evidence of a relationship between disorder and crime. There were very few experimental studies—the most certain method of establishing causality—showing that the first caused the second. But that changed last year, when University of Groningen researcher Kees Keizer and his colleagues published a paper in Science. In six experiments in the Netherlands, Keizer observed and compared the behavior of people under artificial conditions of order and disorder. Invariably, he found that disorderly conditions encouraged further and more serious levels of disorderly behavior. In one experiment, for example, Keizer placed an envelope conspicuously containing five euros in a mailbox. When the mailbox was clean, 13 percent of people who passed it stole the money; when it was covered with graffiti, 27 percent took it. Also in 2008, Harvard University researcher Anthony A. Braga and his colleagues published the results of a complex set of field experiments in Criminology. Researchers and police identified small neighborhoods in Lowell, Massachusetts, and randomly assigned them to experimental and control conditions. In each of the experimental areas—where police were maintaining order, Broken Windows–style—crime dropped more sharply than in the control areas and, moreover, did not simply move to adjacent neighborhoods. The article also built on an earlier experiment, with the same results, that Braga had conducted in Jersey City a decade earlier. While these studies do not settle, once and for all, the question of the relationship between disorder and serious crime, they do provide a substantial body of experimental evidence that fixing broken windows ought to be an integral part of any community’s response to crime. In fact, it’s hard to think of a policy option for fixing a major social problem that is as strongly supported—by both experience and solid research—as is Broken Windows.

LES still happening this morning. Pretty amazing duration for a late March event. This one may get a 4 star.

I guess you were. Dang!