coastalplainsnowman

Agreed, My expectations have been set so low as a result of the past few years that anything within striking distance of near normal snowfall and temps, if it were to happen, would feel like a win. Glad I enjoyed every minute of the 2000-2018 stretch while it lasted, because it sure feels like a distant memory.

From Twiiter:

Funny you say that. We definitely had the 'eye' and I had remembered the warnings from the elders (lol) that once that eye went through it was going to be just as bad again, but the skies pretty much stayed blue as you say. Still the best sustained winds I've ever witnessed, but as years go by I wonder if Sandy was worse, simply because so many more trees went down, even given so many had already been culled by Gloria, the 2010 extended heavy rain/wind event, and Irene leading up to it. What towns do you think fared the worst on LI w/Gloria? I'd always heard it was Massapequa/Amityville. Tobay Beach right on the Nassau Suffolk border seemed like it lost half its sand when we returned the next summer. Went from an endless beach to one where there was little room in spots between the shore and the dunes. It was never the same. To me that was the biggest impact of the storm.

Just remembered Gloria was 40 years ago Friday (edit: Saturday.) I got on here figuring someone would’ve brought it up, but I’m not seeing it. For someone who grew up in the 80s on the south shore near the Nassau/Suffolk border, it persists as a top 5 all time event.

Thanks Don! Unlike meteorology, I actually know statistics so this is great. Much appreciated.

I fear I'll get the you-know-what tag for this, but is there any correlation between August temperatures and December snowfall?

Supposed to play Friday afternoon. Probably gonna be one of those days where it's reasonable out by late morning but it's moot because the course never opened due to overnight rain.

Supposed to go to the Jersey Shore this coming week. Yesterday morning, forecasts had chance of rain under 5% for early in the week. "What could mess that up, so close to next week?", thought I. Wake up this morning to see the chance of rain is now over 70% each day. Of course! There's a ^$!#@&* tropical depression that's threatening to wreck my plans. Credible! Believeable!

I read somewhere that .001% of the Earth's rise in temperature over the last 9 years is directly attributable to server electricity demands, due to the frequency of LibertyBell's posts. Half that is due solely to the giant image and poem in his footer that have been in place only the past year or so. Just kidding, I honestly enjoy the posts (the ducks I'm a little tired of tho.)

Am I forgetting major events, or have the past 18 months or so been painfully boring? No extended or way above normal heat. Ordinary winter temperatues - no cold snaps or even unusual warmth. Some snow but nothing that much. No real hurricane threats nor dramatic thunderstorms, nor hail. No icing. I'm fine with it, and I should be careful what I wish for, but it is boring.

Glad you mentioned the 108. I really thought it was 108 also, but since I couldn't find that documented anywhere, and figured I might have remembered it wrong, I went with the 106 I saw documented.

It's interesting that 2011, the year with by far the shortest time between first and last 90 degree days - 69 days - , is also the year that Newark had the 106 or maybe 108.

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.