uncle W

70 now...

67 here...some high clouds...

1976 comes after a early heat wave in mid April...1976 is the latest 38 or low for so late in the season...1977 came after the earliest 90 degree day in April...about a week or two later it was back in the 90's...1978 came on the first...it too saw 90's later in the month...1970 had a 90 degree day a few days later...

I had wires everywhere too...I tried to make this layout as simple as possible...I did not pre wire anything on the board...I'll eventually have a few street lights hooked up...It is a light rail light freight line in a city/town...I priced a light rail train and it goes for 140...Trollies go from anywhere from 35-100...

I think I can at least double my money and start a bigger better new one...but I still have months of tedious work to go...I did not have room for HO scale...I had a 5/13 layout with fifteen switches and five trains could run at one time...I never completed it fully...I tore it down and rebuilt it twice because I wasn't satisfied...

I was recommended KATO from Japan which turned out quite well...years ago you would have to splice wires...now you just plug it in...

its a lot easier than what it was 35 years ago...a lot more expensive too...

under construction...I'm keeping myself busy building this n scale train layout...I still have many hours a head of me painting and detailing...so far I got around $750.00 into it...it will cost around $1200 when its done...you can say this is my stimulus...all I need now is for the hobby stores to open...

I recorded 1.30" of le and no more than a half inch at one time on the ground for the April 9-10th liquid snow...

on this date in 1875 NYC had its latest heavy snowfall on record...10" was measured in Central Park...temps got as low as 30 during the storm...it wasn't the last of the snow or cold that month... 1875... https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50419405 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1875-04-14/ed-1/seq-6/ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1875-04-14/ed-1/seq-7/

China isn't going to listen to Dr Fauci or anyone else...take away the bugs and bats and their population would starve...

we know deblahzio is big bird...whats coumo?...

we can joke when there is good news...being a cop today is really tough...I had an uncle who was a cop and committed suicide back in 1962....I know first hand the pressures of being a cop...

I figured that...my four year old grandson who needs pre school will suffer the most...If Deblahzio has his way the city will never open...I heard he still goes to Brooklyn every day to walk in Prospect Park...he can do it with his security but us pee ons cant...

great news...stay safe...

before 1982 April snowstorms were of the wet variety...it was snowing hard mid day with temperatures in the mid 20's...the next day with bright sunshine the max temp in NY was only 30 degrees...21 years later there was the 4-7" of snow in 2003...15 years later 4-7" fell in 2018...since 2011 NYC has seen three early season snowfalls...October 2011...3-6" in the city...early November 2012...4-7"...Nov 2018 with 4-7" also...I think 2018 holds the record for the least amount of days between 5" snowfalls in a year...early April to mid Nov...1938 is a close second but has the record for the least amount of days between 6" snowfalls in a year...

that's to bad...hope you get through unscathed...

1923 in Yankee Stadium as The Bronx was beginning to be developed... https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?141127

it will become political one way or the other...besides its to morbid and we need to get back to weather to keep our minds off the scariness around us...be safe out there...

Sandy is not the worst scenario...you can get a cat 4 hitting just below NYC from the south east then stalling...Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012 followed by early heavy snowfalls...looking back 2010-2012 were wild years...

1867-68 got a foot of snow on 12/11/67 and 3/21/68...I'm surprised the cold snowstorm in January 1857 was left out?... 1857 from the ny daily tribune... http://chroniclingam...-20/ed-1/seq-5/

look at the bottom of the 4th column of this page...it has a record of snowstorms up to 1872...it does not show any for 1857 which is an error... https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1873-01-01/ed-1/seq-1/ 1866-67 was the snowy winter you mentioned... 1867 storms... January 1867 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1867-01-18/ed-1/seq-4/ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1867-01-21/ed-1/seq-5/ Feb 1867... https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1867-02-22/ed-1/seq-5/ March 1867 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1867-03-18/ed-1/seq-5/

I was reading about the storm in 1921 and it does not mention sleet...I looked up the local climate data for the storm and it showed the storm started as rain briefly...2.68" of precipitation and 12.5" of snow on the ground...it must have been a very wet snow but 35mph winds made 6-8ft drifts.. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-02-21/ed-1/seq-1/

I was hanging out with the boys one day on the corner candy store when a bird flue in the open door...it was flying around into things until it fell to the floor...I went over to it and stuck out my finger...the bird jumped on my finger and I walked two blocks to the pet store with this bird on my finger...I told the owners what happened and left the bird with them...That was my good deed for the week...

I tried kicking a football on the sleet on that Saturday night in 1965 and my elbows still hurt from falling on them...January 1965 had four straight weekends with snow or sleet...it was a very good month...the fifth weekend had snow in the forecast but the storm sailed south of us...