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51° to 39° in 24 minutes.

51 degrees lol. The 2nd warmest day of the month followed by what may be the coldest night of the month.

50° with 1.55” of rain.

It’s very difficult getting under 10° without snow cover, but we’ll see what happens tonight.

We have THUNDER here. 

I hadn’t noticed the lightning on radar extending from Long Island to east of Atlantic City.

38 degrees with 1.03” of rain so far.

34 with 0.11” of rain.

Very slippery outside.

32 and snowing north of Walt Whitman Mall, with nearly half an inch on the ground (eyeball estimate).

32 and raining south of Walt Whitman Mall, with puddles on the ground.

Very abrupt switchover.

33 and heavy snow in Harlem. 

34 and snow in Mt. Vernon. Accumulating on roads.

36/29 here.

0.5” here. Grass still showing.

Salt seems to have taken snow’s place this winter. Literal salt drifts on the sides of roads.

Very cold today, it’s been nearly a year (361 days) since I had a high in the 20’s, it hasn’t happened since January 15th (2018). Today looks borderline, and may hit at least 30.

I hope this phantom pattern change is a departure from this wet pattern that’s been in place for the entirety of 2018.

Much of Long Island got a break during the summer, both June and July were drier than normal. Hot and super humid but dry and sunny, much like Aruba but slightly cooler. Everywhere else had to deal with excess rainfall all year it seems.

9 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Gone from 4:25pm to 4:42 here.    Mornings still stalled with 7:18 sunrise...

4:25 to 4:43 here, gaining more than a minute per day from here on out, in 10 days it’ll be +2 minutes per day, +3 minutes in early Feb.

Made it to 48 today, and with sun. I’m grateful for all of these hat-less winter days, I haven’t worn one in about a month.

Slowly beginning to notice the later sunsets as well, nearly 20 minutes later than early Dec. It’s about time.

Very cool. Sounds like the most advanced model to date. It’ll be interesting to see how it stacks up against the others.

Also, I already find myself reading “GRAF” as “giraffe”.

My only ice storm memory is of the Jan 1999 ice storm in the DC area, it was serious, the landscape looked very alien, all trees and power lines sagged in ways I’d never seen (and still haven't seen again), I recall one power line encased in thick ice dangling right in front of the window just a few feet away.

This event was also my earliest weather memory.

3 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

The Davis definitely holds its own.

Over the holidays I got an Ambient WS-2902 as an "upgrade"/replacement to my failing decade-old system. Temp and moisture are really the only things I need to know, so while I considered buying a Davis, I went with the entry-level Ambient. At $160 for the whole package, its tipper gauge hasn't differed from the Stratus by more than 5 hundredths of an inch in each precip event so far. Granted, we haven't had any really challenging conditions yet, just steady rainfall rates with minimal wind. But given how accurate this glorified toy has proven, a more advanced system like the Davis should be pretty much bang-on.

The anemometer is still a farce, though.

That’s the same station I have, I got it back in March after that storm at the beginning of the month wrecked my temp/humidity sensor. My wind readings are shot, since it’s an all-in-one station mounted at 5 feet, but everything else has been pretty spot on.

My only complaint is the lack of an aspirating fan, on sunny mornings with dead calm winds my temperature runs a few degrees too high, but (thankfully) never to the point where it affects the daily high temperature. This happens roughly 1-2 times per month.

46 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

lol I loved that too.  Hit 104 here on the south shore that July.  Down in Baltimore where the weather conference was happening it hit 105.  And 108 in Newark!  One of these years they'll hit 110 during a mega heat wave.

I hit 105 in Queens, highest temperature I’ve ever experienced.

Newark (and maybe LGA) is definitely going to hit 110 one of these days. Old Bridge, NJ hit 110 back in 1936.

mood.

0.45” so far. Glad it isn’t snow.

7 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

On January 6 2018 , the temperature was 13 degrees.

On January 6 2019, the temperature will be 48 degrees.

Smfh

48 is much closer to normal (40) than 13.

Some winters don’t even get as cold as 13 for a low, last year’s cold was out of this world.

What I don’t want is a cold/snowy early spring. We’ve seen enough of those.

60 degrees.