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i had tomato seedlings sprouting in the garden. it was so hot i wanted to put the ac on with a house full of guests. heck with that. at least we had some winter this year. hope spring eternal.

i remember that storm. was teaching 7th grade in elizabeth. lights went out 2nd period, and most of the schools in the region closed early. but not us. sat in the dark with the same kids the whole day, accomplishing nothing. they did send us up some tuna sandwiches. institutional tuna, in other words the worst. that was the year i decided to leave teaching.....

was picking my daughter up on way to hoboken and heard wnyc report ridiculously low amounts, with saying suburbs got 2-4....shit there looked to be more than that in hoboken even; we had over 6 in middlesex co....going with RU's meticulous measurement in metuchen of over 6....

no, i have to tolerate the opposite.....ever sit on a rocking boat when its clear you should be heading in but the captain swears its going to calm down?

had stopped at the store around 10 am or so in woodbridge mall and was surprised at a last second band that was pretty heavy; despite it being a weekend, the cleanup was crap. the lots are a mess.

hmmm...sky looks like its clearing here....guess the flurries were just a sideshow.

we had one big one in either 02 or 03 in december, like 14 inches ; it was a friday

we had some good days on the porgies by going up and making the run to long island sound, and a few good days in the spring on sea bass. we do not like tossing shads and jigs all day for bass and we do not like the new regs. used to blackfish under the verrazano and fill a cooler. as for tuna, i actually used to work the deck with one of the guys from wicked tuna back in the 80s. the less said the better, but you can figure out who he is. he made a lot more money on tv than he ever made fishing. i'm looking forward to some nice holiday photos tomorrow. cheers.

we had a crap season; too much wind, stripers were skittish, porgies were only in the sound, sea bass got picked over in a week. friend is thinking of calling it quits, we've been at it since 1982.....and porgies going for a staggering 12.99 a pound at wegman's.....with those kinds of prices, it won't be long before we have a 3 fish limit with a closed season, so the netters can have their fill.....

i was outside doing yard work with just a shirt jacket, but the ground was still frozen and so were the raised beds. snow should stick nice.

gassed up the blower; got out the big daddy, because it is self propelled; the smaller craftsman does a crap job.

"it will bring its own cold air with it" there, i said it so no one else has to. and, i wouldn't count on it, i never do....let's see how it unfolds. been around long enough to see forecasts completely turn around, for good and bad....

yes. get your cameras ready. it may be the only snow of the season; if you celebrate holidays and have decorations, it is a rare chance to get great seasonal photos; make a card.

2010 shall live in infamy in the nyc metro....it was great by today's standards, but most of the good stuff was just a hair too south....still i'd take the 3 big storms we had that were around a foot each in a heartbeat today. but as a retiree now with bad knees and a bad back, and adult kids who have to drive each day, i no longer wish for a lot of snow. i never had to work or drive in it, working in a school, and my kids would be home, but things are different now. 3-6 inches is about my limit these days. and even they are getting hard to come by. 2021 was quite good, but we were all busy with something else that year. i still suffer bouts of brain fog from long covid.

my grandparents were visiting from southern indianan and they had never seen snow like that.....an older woman told me her husband died shoveling the snow and she had to keep him the house for a few days as no one could get to her.....

we did have the jan 2016 blockbuster after a warm snowless december, but it was really a one off kinda winter....

here's where you can use qualitative data....62 years here, 63 next week....can't tell you much about the 60s, but the 70s were colder, i would see frozen ground in november, we had only one real big event in cnj in the 70s. mid feb 78....snow remained scarce in the 80s except for jan and april 82, feb 83, jan 87, and a freak november event in 89. nada until the harsh winter of 94, one big event in feb 95, the gold standard of 96, nada until dec 2000, then the aughts begin with blockbuster winters in between snow droughts, until around 2015, with a big daddy and 2016, and nothing really big till 2021. 2018 and 2022 were decent south and east, 2024 had a few events. been rather quiet otherwise, and warmth the likes of which someone my age never saw as a child. that is qualitative, observational, and not scientific. however, failing to use qualitative data which was readily available caused scientists to badly underestimate how much overfishing has been taking place; they did not ask anglers, seafood buyers or markets, what they had observed over the decades, relying a lot on trawl data. what you guys are arguing over is esoterica for me, but i can tell you, its warmer and doesn't snow as much lately. now, my next question would be, what does the peer reviewed literature say? this is like the experts on dog evolution, one arguing they all descended from the european wolf, the other saying nonsense, it was clearly some smaller animal.....but i do get a kick out of reading it all.

poster has a doctorate in a hard science. show some respect.

and fireworks

i believe in 2015 we were sitting outside, because it was too hot inside and the ac vents had all been closed for the winter....

could you elaborate? not that i would trust that dude.

consensus is we aren't having much of a winter here this year, so there, i'm glad the experts got it off their chests.....and actually haven't seen much of one since 2021, which was pretty snowy, and seems ignored around here. i guess there were other things in the news....the local reservoir is down to a trickle, though it is not used for drinking anymore and is scheduled for dredging and redevelopment. that would be the clark reservoir, subject of much controversy these days.

yes, i was fishing that day and brought a bucket with a bag of ice, usually fine for this time of year, but it quickly melted and i had to empty the lunch cooler out and stuff the fish in there.

we could not grow the amounts of food we do without pesticides. period. and we'd be inundated with roaches without them too. not all pesticides are onerous; boric acid and baking soda are pesticides. pyrethrins are pretty safe. if you've ever had a roach hitch a ride in your groceries and drop an egg sack, you would be much more inclined to be friendly to pesticides.....

my son's entire job is determining impacts on wetlands. been tough to take samples this year with all the dry soil. developers often get pissed at him for delaying their projects, but there is a criteria and a set of plans to be implemented if wetlands are present. and unlike some idiots on the supreme court, he knows that wetlands don't have to be connected somehow to running water.....because he has a degree in this stuff....