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RH hasn’t dipped below 30% here. Currently 36/11. High was 41.

Temp here didn’t really start dropping until almost 5 AM. Bottomed out at 33.

Low of 23 here.

27 here. Dew point is in the single digits for the first time since 3/27.

33.4 with light snow, no accumulation, should be tapering off soon.

Rain/snow mix in Selden. Home temp down to 34, still have a few tropical plants to bring indoors but they’ll be fine until later. I miscalculated the arrival of cold air by about 6 hours.

40 and light rain here. My mother says it’s snowing in Manahattan.

That’s insane, that’s about as cold as it typically gets for the entire year here, and never that cold this early, even December rarely sees single digits. Temp is now free falling, currently 45°F, down from 55°F about 20 minutes ago.

“Winter Storm” posted along the LIE since yesterday and I saw them loading up the salt trucks just a short while ago. This is overkill imo. Car is displaying 60 degrees right now with on and off light rain.

Ehh, a lot cloudier than expected, so I was wrong. Temps were off to the races earlier with sunshine, we would’ve easily passed the lower 50’s had it remained sunny.

Wouldn’t surprise me if today’s “warmth” over performs in some spots. Already 48 here with the sun partially obscured by clouds, forecast is 52.

24 this morning. Lows colder than the forecast has been the theme with this recent cold weather. Forecast was 27.

40 here, high was 43, today was an instant reminder of how much I hate winter/cold.

31.8 here, first freeze.

Next week looks like something straight out of January. Hard to believe it was in the 90’s just a few weeks ago.

32.2 very very close, but not exactly freezing.

34 with light frost on the tops of cars.

We sit at both the northern and southern ranges for a lot of plant species. No one pays attention to native plants so it all looks the same, but the juxtaposition of northern and southern plant species is interesting if you know or can identify what it is you’re looking at.

They already do survive up here. I took both of these in Manhattan back in August: Windmill Palm: (tolerates down to 5°F) Dwarf Palmetto: (tolerates below 0°F) The most cold tolerant palm though is the Needle Palm, that thing can take -10°F, there was one growing at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden since the 1960’s until they removed it like 2 years ago as part of a redesign. It’s native to the Southeast (along with the Dwarf Palmetto) and given its cold tolerance it’s been theorized that its native range once included areas further north and that it was only pushed south due to the glacial maximums.

Governor’s an idiot. I mean, it’s good that he acknowledges climate change, but this sort of stuff is fuel for the denialist types.

Sky brightening up here, temp up to 69 now.

NYC always appears to rip squall lines in half.

Sun is out now, but unfortunately it’ll be setting in 20 minutes.

2.00” on the nose, tapering off now. First time crossing the 2” mark this year, last 2”+ event was on Dec 21st, 2018 with 2.33”.

1.66” and counting with rates north of 2” per hour. Flash flood conditions in some areas, parked in a shopping center and came back 20 minutes later to find that the water was ankle deep, my shoes and pants are soaked as a result. Also, a perfect time for the RainX to wear off.