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Watching the first NFL game of the year tonight, it occurred to me that the most recent NFL game was the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb 7th. That was the day/evening of that perfectly timed, pretty, moderate snowfall that left beautiful skies and cold crisp air in its wake at dusk. Made for a perfect night of football watching.
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Figured banter was the best place for this. In case you don't already have it, a page with various traffic cams in Montauks and the Hamptons: https://hamptons.com/all-live-cameras/ The one of the Montauk circle stands out. So deserted compared to what a typical August Sunday AM would look like.
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I've always wanted to ask here what folks consider to be central Suffolk. I think people generally consider Central Suffolk to be roughly Smithtown to Manorville. If you take a ruler out though and measure from the Nassau/Suffolk border to Montauk, isn't Central Suffolk really more like Riverhead? I feel like the common Central Suffolk definition would be correct if there was actually a Peconic County like they wanted to create years ago..
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When you guys say 'Henri' in your mind, are you pronouncing it as 'HEN-ree' or 'on-REE'? I feel the latter makes this event seem much more serious.
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Having seen this topic in my kids Regents Earth Science more times than I can remember, I'm going to go way out of my depth here and answer, using a regents study guide to support me, specifically Barron's Let's Review: Earth Science the Physical Setting, p. 574 lol, which, yes, I had nearby. "During the day land surfaces heat up faster than water. The higher temperatures over the land result in lower air pressures, while the lower temperatures over the water result in higher air pressures there. A wind develops that blows from the high pressure area over the water toward the low pressure area over the land." I must have time on my hands this morning lol
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I totally agree. Most of on the south shore take that afternoon cooldown for granted. I know I'm working with a small sample and somewhat anecdotal here, but whenever I'm on the northern part of the island in say Smithtown, Hauppauge, etc, at an outdoor gathering, the afternoons there on hot days are so different than at home, where much of the time we get the onshore flow. Same as I remember when spending time in the summer in central/northern NJ. It's our small reward here for dealing with that same onshore flow that makes late April / May days, especially afternoons, miserable here when they are beautiful as close by as, say, East Meadow. Also for ruining the biggest winter storms that get a little too close (yes I know sometimes we benefit in brush-by events but that is more rare...)
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Wow, those previous records were really smoked, no? Taking a quick average looks like the records were broken across these 19 sites by an average of about -5.6 degrees. Seems like a lot.
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I can't seem to find it, but a week or so back there were interesting posts about how if we hit freezing this April that it'd be the first time in a long time that we had at least one freezing day from October through April. Would anyone be able to please confirm whether that's been officially accomplished?
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The surprise for me with this data is how commonplace it was even going back to the 1970s, to hit 80 in April, with a mean of April 23rd. Would never have guessed that. Always thought that hitting 80 before May was a fluke. Edit: Same for 80s in October. Always thought that was unusual too, but apparently that was commonplace in the 70s too. The range between them has expanded for sure tho, as shown by bluewave.
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I love early Spring afternoons on the south shore of LI. By 'love', I mean 'hate.'
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Anyone else get a sort of seasonal confusion once in awhile, specifically this time of year? Yesterday felt like an unseasonably mild late October day. Same thing with the frost this morning, like there should be pumpkins out and November is around the corner. Maybe its the similar sun angle, or maybe the level of humidity, I don't know.
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I was just studying this map. If I'm reading it correctly , the 2m temps just few miles SW of that 63 in the Hamptons was in the low-mid 40s, colder than anyplace else on the map. Any reason to think that wouldn't be accurate, or any reason what would cause temps to be notably lower in that area? Just curious.
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More than crazy, it's irritating. As someone who ties holiday mood to cold weather (perhaps this is in the medical books somewhere), these diabolically placed 60 degree days just before Christmas which have seemed to occur almost every year since about 2013 have got to go.
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Not to overhype this, but I found this illusion to be pretty amazing. Meteorology-related too: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion
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Can’t believe we are *20* years out from the crazy March 2001 heartbreaker. Yes, some folks cashed in, some pretty well, but still a heartbreaker for most. The two decades to follow have more than made up for it though. 20 years ago - incredible.
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I never would have guessed that summer of 1977, sandwiched between a solid and severe winter, and in the middle of talk of a new ice age, would be among the warmest winters.
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This is awesome. Although I have to admit I am now so conditioned to the current TWC format that I keep waiting to hear Jim Cantore's voice. If only there was the earlier version of this with the all purple background and simple white all caps font. Remembering when we'd have a Winter Storm Warning and the background would be red and the warning would scroll, sometimes playing right over the voices of the mets who were back on air. This is bringing me back!
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OBS and nowcast 10A-5P both Mon and Tue 2/22-23
coastalplainsnowman replied to wdrag's topic in New York City Metro
Been plain rain here from the start, far as I know. Uncommon (unfortunate) rain/snow line for sure. Scrolling back I see northern Nassau was getting good snow at least for awhile, and seeing Levittown apparently was snow too. Few minutes drive from there to here and I don't think we saw a flake here. -
Layman's question on this - please folks don't put me on blast.. Speaking of late February sun, I've noticed over the years that when there's a storm threat in March and someone makes mention of the fact that snowfall under marginally thick cloud cover will have trouble accumulating, it seems to be met with ridicule. Obviously sun angle starts playing a larger role in heating up the ground, just as you mention, and we see how quick the snow disappears, increasingly as we go through March. So why references to sun angle met with such reaction? Or is that type of reaction only in response to folks saying that it categorically can't snow, which of course would be silly. Thanks.
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The other interesting event in the 2010-2011 timeframe - not meteorological but still Mother Nature related - was the August 2011 earthquake. So in that crazy timespan we had huge snow including snow in October, historic heat, hurricane(s), and an earthquake.
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Roughly the same here based on spotter reports. Don't know if it's the old piles contributing to the look, the persistent glazing since about 2PM, or both, but after cleaning it up I can say that for 4" this thing definitely outpunched its weight class.
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Is the nature of this current Upton map (namely, the way the >6s are distributed) due to the fact that it is taking into account amounts which have already fallen?
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We need a poll after each event for the best new phrase capturing the sentiment "gosh, it's snowing really hard out right now." My vote is for "righteous poundage." Credit to whoever coined that one an hour ago.
