coastalplainsnowman

2010 - 2012 were some wild times around here. There was that ridiculously wet mid-March 2010 where LI lost as many trees as in a hurricane due to the ground being so saturated, then Irene, then Sandy. All interspersed with crazy snowstorms and then 100 degree heat, including I think a 106 in Newark. Oh yeah, a decent earthquake too. Am I missing anything? Fun times if you like this sort of thing, not sure if it applies to anyone here lol.

Apologies in advance if this was already mentioned (took a quick look at the last few pages and didn't see it referenced), but is this not the 2nd latest recorded snowfall, if not the latest, in the last 50 years there?

I was thinking the same, and as it turns out there were 31 states. But the 31 already included the ones where it would be toughest to have snow, like Florida. BTW, since I encountered this while looking into it, here's what the flag looked like in 1857:

My guess is because the NFL and college really are a strong draw by then. My solution is to have the first two weeks of games in the MLB season hosted almost exclusively in domed stadiums or warm weather cities, then make up for that later in the summer in the cold weather cities / undomed stadiums.

(Edit: changed from "=" to "(∴)" to make it a little more accurate)

Looking at the wunderground maps, 77 at the Jones Beach tower, 62 at the Robert Moses tower, 46 at Fire Island.

I'm not saying it's never happened, but I sure as heck have never seen south shore temps in the afternoon of a warm spring day be even 5 degrees warmer than the north shore. 30 degrees warmer seems impossible. Yet here we are.

Who trained that model, Joe Bastardi? (I know that's an easy laugh line in these parts)

Who wants to feel old? 1993 Storm of the Century was 32 years ago today. That's more than double the time that elapsed between it and the Blizzard of 78. That's 2010 in today's terms. For reference, when the 1993 storm hit, the Lindsay storm had occurred only 24 years prior. 2001 in today's terms. Put another way, as we tracked the 1993 storm, we'd only been to the moon for the first time 24 years prior as well.

On a related note, I'm determined to actually watch my iPhone or desktop clock jump from 1:59 to 3:00 tonight. I'll let you know how it goes.

Not sure if it's been mentioned here yet, but some decent sized brushfires in progress on the east end. Unless it's something coincidental I'm looking at, looks very visible on satellite.

I'll bet my house that North and West is a dad. Q: How can you tell when a joke is a Dad joke? A: When its apparent.

For anyone else who knows as little about air traffic control as I do about weather and air traffic control, but was interested in this, I just did some quick googling: "When the combination of minimums and winds require using the ILS to 13L, it creates major airspace issues, particularly with TEB and LGA. Hence, they only use that approach when all other options have been exhausted." I guess that answers my question on why using it translates to delays.

I was just looking at the NESIS page. If I'm reading it correctly, in a 13 day stretch in 2010 western southern NJ received: 4-10" Jan 29-30 20-30" Feb 4-7 10-20" Feb 9-11th and it looks like it never got out of the 30s during that stretch. Is this not amazing? I've never seen a stretch like that on LI. Closest to this would be maybe '78 before I could remember. I don't remember this being discussed much back in 2010, but then again I see we got clocked up here a few times in early 2010 too and I have no recollection of those either. Probably because they were so darn frequent for so long.

Don, I'm hoping you are going to do that "winter misery index" calculation / comparison for this winter when all is said and done. Really curious to see how it will stack up if the winter stays on its current trajectory with regard to snow and temps. Namely, whether the somewhat below normal temps will help this year land somewhere in the middle historically, despite the low snow totals. Or, does the fact that the temps when compared to the last hundred years or so aren't all that cold after all will land it among the more miserable winters.