coastalplainsnowman

Saw this on New York Metro Weather twitter feed today. I'm assuming this was labelled this way at least partly tongue-in-cheek:

Weather the last 10 years is like going to a baseball game. Something new happens every time. The odds of me witnessing another lunar eclipse in < 10 degree below windchill are probably pretty low. Down to 6 in the past hour here. The disparity between the temps here and the temps N&W seems less than I'm used to.

On LI, even putting snow aside for a minute, the total liquid precip up to this point (which I assume this is) is only what, .40" for Nassau eastward to the Sagtikos. and quarter inch eastward from there?

Agreed. Only problem for me is that over time I've come to much prefer a snowy meterological winter, followed by warmth in March/April (what we used to call springlike weather but what I think is better defined as mid springlike weather), over these winters that get a late start and make for miserably chilly March/Aprils. Like most snow fans I'm always looking ahead, and a snowfall that sticks around during a post storm cold snap is the best. 93/94 was awesome for that, and even though 95/96 had its multiple warmups, that storm that hit a few days before Christmas and stuck around in the crisp cold for a week was great. It's not the same when it falls in March/April. Those are just as fun when they're happening, but they're a grey muddy sloppy mess 6 hours later. I suppose the last ~15 years have spoiled me. In the 80s I'd have taken any snowfall deep enough to cover the grass whenever I could get it.

Pretty sure I just observed a mosquito on the way out to the car.

Even more ridiculous:

December 30th, 2000. To this date the heaviest snowfall rates I ever witnessed on the south shore in Nassau. Didn't keep up that intensity for more than 30-45 minutes, but still, nothing has come close, which is saying something considering all storms we've had since then.

Interesting point. No other year in the top 10 comes close to having both the spring and fall storms at 5"+ other than this one. Also interesting, in the top ten the most recent one before 2011 was 71 years prior.

Wow did that have a sudden onset or what here in SE Nassau. It was calm with barely a mist, then a sudden strong gust that must have taken some weaker limbs down, followed by intense rain, the like of which I haven't seen since, well, August I guess. Looking at the radar we took the tip of the spear.

For Nassau/Suffolk, TWC has practically 0 for LI other than <1 in northern third of Nassau, with a sliver of 1-3 right along the north shore.

Is the cold end of November / start of December still expected? I'm not seeing BN temps in the forecasts that joe sixpacks like me look at (CPC 8-14 day, accuweather, etc.) I know, inadviseable, but if there was consensus am thinking it would show up there too. Is the consensus back to expecting the usual slightly to moderately AN for the foreseeable future again? Looking at long range commercial forecasts (I know, I know) they've been promising BN three weeks out for the last month or so.

Just curious for anyone who might know - the repeated references to 'city smoke' are interesting. Is that what we now would call smog? How would that be recorded today?

Agreed. Been to Ohio now and then, and in late June at 9:40 PM I'd say the sky looks like it does here at 8:50 PM. Haven't been there in early January, but it must be tough getting out of bed there before 8.

Watching TWC just now, Paul Goodloe and another on air person I don't recognize are doing a segment called 'car wash', apparently talking about whether the weather in select cities is good for car washing. The song 'Car Wash' is playing, and they are both dancing while doing the segment. It was probably only three minutes, but felt like 3 hours. I'm sure that if either is a meteorologist, they were thinking 'this is not what I had in mind.'