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  1. JBG
    1972 and 1987 had some incredible summer warmth despite vigorous El Niños. Ditto 1983 but that was as the Super El Niño was fading.
  2. JBG
    2006-7 had a full turnaround; IIRC middle of January went from record torch in NYC area to lots of cold and snow, with Valentine's Day IP blizzard.
  3. JBG
    Well Russia lost the 1980 Hockey Olympics.
  4. JBG
    There's warm and there's warm. IP is better than ZR.
  5. JBG
    What would happen if they expanded the "base periods" to fifty or sixty year intervals? They would be less susceptible to short-period fluctuations as 1976-9, which were sharply cooler than normal.
  6. JBG
    Thanks. I have always been suspicious of instant declarations that any date or period of time was the "hottest ever." Clickbait or alarmism.
  7. JBG
    It would be even better to have a real summer for once. The last four were disappointing.
  8. JBG
    We made it through July that year. August, meh.
  9. JBG
    They can adjust the location from Belvedere Castle.
  10. JBG
    I can't get any clarity on whether Central Park equaled or exceeded 100° on June 24, 2025. It's a crucial number because if we did it would be the earliest in the summer. Previous earliest was June 26, 1952. Next earliest was June 27, 1966, a day I actually remember. As a nine year old I was being packed onto a bus for sleepaway camp in the Berkshires.
  11. JBG
    That sure happened in December 2010, the Boxing Day Blizzard. That was also a Niña.
  12. JBG
    I actually never knew that. They were originally the Brooklyn Atlantics. Everything changed with the creation of the subway system, which fueled the amalgamation of modern NYC.
  13. JBG
    Bronx is very much in New York City. Most of the Bronx and all of Manhattan were in the original, pre-December 31, 1897 NYC; Queens (a collection of villages), Brooklyn (in its own right the second or third largest US City at the time) and Staten Island (a collection of villages) were added effective January 1, 1898, the birthday of NYC as we know it.
  14. JBG
    Your lips to G-d's ears.
  15. JBG
    February 30, 2024. Only kidding, thinking January 15, 2024.
  16. JBG
    I don't know. In my neck of the woods, the New York area, 1972-3 could not have been more different than 2009-10, even though both were cold-phase El Niños. 1982-3 and 2015-6 at least had one huge KU, unlike 1972-3 or 1997-8.
  17. JBG
    1972 had a couple; December 15, 1972, which IIRC hugged the coast, causing a changeover, and January 29, 1973 (same story). There were two biggies that plastered the Southeast, from Atlanta to Charleston to Wilmington (NC). There was one in mid-to-late March 1992. I don't remember if the "Storm of the Century" circa March 12, 1993 was during a Niño or it it was already neutral.
  18. JBG
    Don't forget 2015-6 and 1972-3. 1982-3 may be similar though that was following a warm-neutral (right after the Great Pacific Shift) from mid-1979 through April 1982.
  19. JBG
    In Westchester County on the Connecticut line, we're lucky if we got six. More like four or five.
  20. JBG
    On February 11, 1983 I remember watching the slow advance from the law library on Vesey Street. I saw the curtain of snow envelope the Verrazano. I grabbed the subway to my office on 40th street where it barely started snowing about 30 minutes later. The edge of the snow really crawled.
  21. JBG
    I "third" you. I lost my real Dad at 15, he was 47, in 1973. Fortunately it was from great to greater, but I lost my next Dad after almost 41 years knowing him and being his stepson my of the time in 2013.
  22. JBG
    Sweet. And my condolences.
  23. JBG
    That's a keeper, and going out to my mailing list!
  24. JBG
    You are quite right. I was referring to "Doria" as "Edith." Courtesy of my bad memory.
  25. JBG
    What about February 1983?
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