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Happy Met Summer. 

54 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

I planted mine on saturday. No more threats of frost so I don't think it's a problem. A good soaking yesterday and now some warmer temps and sunshine today and tomorrow, so they should get going.

I picked up my plants but they are sitting in a sunny window inside at the moment. Will give it one more week but they should be fine. Overnight lows don't look to go below 50 too much more for me and that is a good benchmark. 

41 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

um no nobody wants mid 90's heat so early in the year...

“Nobody” might be a bit of an exaggeration. 

3 hours ago, Snow88 said:

My favorite

Man. Didn't you just take vacation to Florida like a month ago? I would assume Florida to be the last place we'd find you. 

Sleet in Seaford. 44.  April is dead to me. Wake me up in June

1 hour ago, JerseyWx said:

I think it was March '16 when I saw mosquitos during the 2nd week of March.

Lol.  A "peeper," which is short for spring peeper, is a type of chorus frog.  They're very tiny and mark the arrival of spring.

Honestly I never heard of them until I moved to my current place which is right across the street from a small nature preserve. 

28 minutes ago, JerseyWx said:

Heard my first peeper of the season last night.  He was all alone out there.  Funny because last year I had a "lone peeper" as well.

It's a bit early for me to be hearing them compared to years prior.

I’ve heard them here for the past three weeks. They are like the first sign of spring. 

53 now. Topped out at 63. Pretty nice for the south shore this time of year. 

Great example of the temp differences on wundermap. 49 right on the water at jones beach. 71 near Elizabeth NJ. 

1 hour ago, gravitylover said:

Strangely enough even with all of the rain and persistent humidity the bugs last year were less numerous than many similar years although some insects were significantly more of a problem. We had spider crickets that we've only had a few of before and the black flies were terrible in some spots. I know that hemispherically the flying insect count was way down and around here, at least most of the places I was, the mosquito population was a fraction of the year before.

Curious to know if you see an increase in spider crickets this summer up there. We had them here on the south shore and it went from basically never seeing them, to having them everywhere in just a few seasons. Everyone started buying the glue traps and you would catch like 20-30 of them a week in each trap. Then last year the population dropped way down again. As far as mosquitos they are terrible in my yard every year. And I have Asia tiger mosquitos. They are brutal and bite all day long. I had tried the propane trap but didn’t have much success. Last year I finally gave in and had the yard sprayed. That’s about the only thing that works. It had gotten to the point where I couldn’t even take the garbage to the curb without getting bit. 

16 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

The year-round DST rejoicing will end quite quickly when the proletariat realize that it means waiting for the school bus in pitch blackness for months and months and months...

If something like that came to pass, it would be a nice score for some of the long-range specialists who highlighted that period as early as late Feb... maybe even before that.

Yeah. The sun wouldn’t crack the horizon until 8AM or later for all of December and January 

On 3/8/2019 at 8:34 PM, jm1220 said:

I’m still there pretty frequently. I’ll be there tomorrow actually. Haven’t seen the new dunes really, I’ll have to check them out. Last I really saw of them they were still under construction. 

Had dinner in LB tonight with some friends and then took a look at the beach.  The dune is not really that high, but the depth of the beach itself was really expanded out into the ocean. It’s more like jones beach now. 

51 here. No wind. Sun feels pretty good

20 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Now we don’t have anyone to give weather observations from Long Beach. It looks like they built the new dunes too low to survive any future hurricanes. The ones down in Lido that survived Sandy were the better height and width. But they were probably thinking more about views and access than major surge protection.

Wow. Can’t beleive we don’t have anyone left in Long Beach. I haven’t seen the new dunes first hand but from that picture they really don’t look too high or wide. Hopefully the widening of the overall beach will help. Otherwise I could see that dune being breached during big storms and water getting stuck between the dune and the boardwalk.  

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

Snow extent anomalies for North America are right up there with 2014 and 2015 for early March. This will be remembered as the late start to spring decade.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/snow/HTML/snow_extent_plots.html

Blah.  Well at least we seem to make up for it with September more and more resembling a summer month. 

Fat flakes with some pingers mixed in now. 33.1/30.0 

Back home in Seaford just North of Sunrise hwy. It’s now a solid white rain but I can see it starting to stick on the colder surfaces. 

6 minutes ago, Rjay said:

34/32 with snow puddles

In massapequa tonight right near the bay- it’s just regular rain here. 

Gust of wind caught the screen door out my back porch and tore it right out of the frame. Thing was probably 40 years old anyway, but damn. 

Costco has the Tommy Bahama beach chairs out. Summer around the corner. 

So who's moving to the Sierra Nevada?

Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
300 AM PST Thu Feb 14 2019

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST
SATURDAY...

 WHAT...Moderate to heavy rain this morning with heavy snow
  accumulation limited to the higher peaks. Heavy snow returns to
  the pass levels around midday with snow levels lowering below
  3500 feet tonight. Travel will be very difficult to impossible.
  Damage to trees and power lines is possible. Additional snow
  accumulations of 3 to 5 feet above 3500 feet, with local
  accumulations of 7 to 8 feet, are expected.

20 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I would say the exact opposite, that’s the exact place to be in winter. There are plenty of people who enjoy winter sports as much or more then summer. I absolutely love snow boarding, I would put a great day on the mountain with fresh snow right up there with a day of surfing. Maine has absolutely been the place to be this winter with two of the biggest and best ski resorts in the east (sugarloaf and Sunday river) having banner winters. Had I been there ridding fresh snow I wouldn’t have broken my collar bone on the ice in southern Vermont. It’s just too far of a drive for a weekend warrior like myself. Throw in all the other winter sports people love their (snowmobiling, ice fishing, hokey and many more) and you end up with endless winter opportunities 

Total bummer about your collar bone. Ironically my sister broke her collar bone at Stratton (assuming that’s where you were) many years ago. My sister also happened to be skiing at Sunday river last weekend during the snowstorm. Said it was epic, of course. 

41 minutes ago, allgame830 said:

Down to 12, dropped 2 degrees in 40 minutes.

My station refreshes every 15 seconds. There was a period of time this afternoon around 4PM when I was dropping a tenth of a degree with nearly every refresh.  

19 now after a high of 50 this afternoon. A 31 degree drop in about 6 hours. 

34 now after a high of 50 less than 3 hours ago. I am watching the tenths of degress tick down on station every 30 seconds at this point. 

5 hours ago, wdrag said:

So for the still working mets on this board... there continues to be need for improved modeling of boundary layers (BL) temps, especially the lowest portion of the BL... ALL model failure on this CAD drainage that is a constant, when, a reservoir of colder air exists near I90 (MA-NYS), available for reinforcement. We're lucky here in northern Sussex County that we had mostly sleet (11P-430A).  We'll know more at sunrise, and then if it doesn't warm above 32, a second chance for power outages with 35-45 Mph gusts knocking down ice covered branches tonight.  Unknowns to prepare for.  One known I think is the risk not only elevated risk for heart attacks removing our solid 4.5" of snow sleet (it was broomable last evening prior to sleet (24f at that time). but also shoulder injuries since the weight of snow -sleet-freezing rain can take a toll.  

Just reading the discussion out of the NWS in Maine and they would agree. No models really reliable.

Update...For starters the only model performing even close to
observed 2 m temps is the HRRR...so any adjustments were just
about solely HRRR based. Largest pressure falls are occurring
over the elbow of the Cape. With low pressure trying to squeeze
in that direction now...cold temps will lock in place. I do not
expect anyone to rise above freezing today...which at least
eliminates one ptype.