Uniblab

4 hours ago, rclab said:

Good morning, Will. Many of the species in our area are harmless and beneficial. It’s a shame that their institutional bad reputation is promoted more often by myth than by fact. As always ....

I had garter snakes as pets in my younger days. 

Saw my first butterfly of the year! 

4 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

Compared to even a decade ago, an increasing share of TV weather has essentially become little more than “fast food” of weather, though there remain exceptions. On many stations, it is no longer substantive (details and time spent discussing weather developments have decreased even as the impact of weather has not). On air expertise is sometimes superficial.

One sees fewer degreed meteorologists involved. Likely, on account of fewer degreed meteorologists being involved, when it comes to discussions of such things a precipitation type issues, one never sees the deployment of even a single sounding chart to illustrate what is going on aloft. Hence, an avoidable public misperception that it is ‘cold enough’ for snow persists even when there is too much warm air aloft.

This is an unfortunate situation. I always advise my friends and co-workers to follow the National Weather Service if they really want a forecast they can rely on. I continue to be impressed by the dedication and expertise possessed by those within the region (ALY, BOX, OKX, and PHI). 

Never rely on weather on air personalities. 

On 3/5/2021 at 12:24 PM, Will - Rutgers said:

i lied and i came back because i have nowhere else to go

also i just want to say rclab, you are an incredibly pleasant person.

I don't know rclab, never met him, but I like him. 

35 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Says who?

My daffodils are coming up.

Always keep expectations low! 

24 for the low, Staten Island. 

6 hours ago, doncat said:

Yeah some stations hit 80 in Feb. 2017...But afaik not on xmas 2015...High here that day was 61°.

My mistake, it Christmas eve 2015, and the high was 72° according to my station. 

9 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I thought that was more like mid October lol.  Remember JFK hit 95 last October!  Yum!

 

I remember a few years ago that it hit 80 in my backyard on Christmas day. 

10 hours ago, SRRTA22 said:

 i didnt know virus's can be chinese 

I've had the Irish virus more than a few times in my life lol. 

80°dew.

2.44 of rain in the Davis, Staten Island. 

I saw a few butterflies in my backyard today. 

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

Yayy frost on my car

Reminds me of winter

Make a frostman! 

18 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I put in 400 daffodil bulbs last fall and they are way up. I’m worried about the cool down zapping any potential blooms. I would think we see everything at least a month ahead this year over the last several 

My plants started coming up more than a month ago. 

10 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

There's a good book on this I bought at the Bronx Zoo years ago called Manahatta; talks about the island before it was a mega city or even close; Canal St used to cross a canal, the water supply was a fresh water pond in lower Manhattan IIRC, possibly called Wreck Pond. 

I think it was called collect pond.

4 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

He has less credibility than all of the mets here, and less than most of the amateurs. I don't know much about this stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised if you don't need a snow shovel or a swimsuit.....just a raincoat ( an insulated one ).

Or a blend. 

At least I can try out my new power washer. 

3 minutes ago, BombsAway1288 said:

That was the classic storm that ended up clobbering Upstate NY- New England. Remember the Weather Channel had Kocin sitting there infront of a map that had all of PA-NJ-NYC-SNE in the dark purple saying "Widespread 2-3 Feet". I think that's when panic ensued and why a lot of people consider it and remember it as a huge bust. The area's that did get those amounts weren't exactly populated. Think ORH pulled a 30"+  spot though.

That was the storm that hurt/ruined a lot of on-air mets in the big markets. I think one met (can't remember his name but he worked in NYC at some point in the 2000's) was literally run out of Philadelphia because they ended up with nothing after the 2' predictions

It was John Bolaris.

Winter salt warning for blowing and drifting salt. 

31 here. 

33°

1.53 in the Davis. 

36.4 on the backyard Davis in Staten island this morning.

19 hours ago, doncat said:

My father worked his way up to supervisor at the Manor rd. office for many years...Long time ago...retired around 1980.

 

Even though I live close by, I choose to avoid that post office because of the awful parking.