January 2024

[BucksCO_PA]

6 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

Yes, it would break the January monthly record set on this date in 1950. We'll see when the final numbers are out.

Dulles hasn't quite got there yet, 79 degrees thru 1:40

[Volcanic Winter]

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

74 at DCA currently 

Crazy!! I’m at 48 currently. 

[TheClimateChanger]

 

[MJO812]

76 in DC now

[BucksCO_PA]

3 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

76 in DC now

79 degrees

[Allsnow]

Wow…80 at DCA 

 

What a winter 

[North and West]

Washington, DC (DCA) has hit 80° for a high so far.

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[MJO812]

1 minute ago, Allsnow said:

Wow…80 at DCA 

 

What a winter 

43 and cloudy here lol

[donsutherland1]

2 pm temperatures:

Wilmington, DE: 51°

Georgetown, DE: 72°

[Allsnow]

1 minute ago, MJO812 said:

43 and cloudy here lol

Congrats…more damp and dreary weather…

[MJO812]

Just now, Allsnow said:

Congrats…more damp and dreary weather…

Seattle weather

[bluewave]

10 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

 

Closer to a La Niña January 500 mb pattern for the US even though it’s a borderline super El Niño. Very impressive how the MJO really shaped this pattern due to the record SST warmth from the IO to WPAC. The Euro seasonal was going with a stock January El Niño 500 mb composite back with its December forecast. 

 

 

[Allsnow]

Just now, bluewave said:

Similar to a La Niña January 500 mb pattern for the US even though it’s a borderline super El Niño. Very impressive how the MJO really shaped this pattern due to the record SST warmth from the IO to WPAC. The Euro seasonal was going with a stock January  El Niño 500 mb composite back with its December forecast. 

 

 

The mjo rules the roost 

[BucksCO_PA]

What is really remarkable about DC hitting 80 today is this is over 3-1/2 wks. ahead of the earliest 80 degree day on record - 2/21/2018. The average 1st 80 day over the entire POR back to 1872 is 4/5. Since 2000 that average date is 3/25.

DC has only recorded (4) 80 degree days during the month of FEB, just wow

[SACRUS]

 

 

 

 

[mattinpa]

7 minutes ago, BucksCO_PA said:

What is really remarkable about DC hitting 80 today is this is over 3-1/2 wks. ahead of the earliest 80 degree day on record - 2/21/2018. The average 1st 80 day over the entire POR back to 1872 is 4/5. Since 2000 that average date is 3/25.

I am pretty freaked out by that 80. I know there is climate change, but wow!

[BucksCO_PA]

7 minutes ago, mattinpa said:

I am pretty freaked out by that 80. I know there is climate change, but wow!

In another 10 yrs the people in FL are going to be coming to New England during the summer to escape the heat.

[SACRUS]

 

Low clouds clinging to the area on the NEflow

 

[BucksCO_PA]

The earliest 80 degree days at PHL & Central Park are 3/8 & 3/13 respectively. 

[Volcanic Winter]

Those temps are obscene. 

Also, I don’t begrudge people for their preferences and absolutely respect them. But I don’t want 60 degree weather here in winter, ever. It’s just wrong, unseasonable, and actually truly makes me depressed. So yes, it’s dreary and chilly and wet which sucks, but I’ll still take it over whatever the hell DC is getting right now. 

I always look at it, too, like this; we have warmth, heat, and humidity to contend with almost all year these days. We don’t need warmth in the winter, because even having said that we still often get it anyway, and unfortunately often at the worst times (bad air masses ruining snow chances, etc). We often say “it just needs to be cold enough to snow,” and yeah, isn’t that the crux of it? Unfortunately the last few years, it simply hasn’t been for many events that rained throughout almost the whole Metro.

Give me the cold, always. I’ve mentioned this before but didn’t @bluewavepost last year that for NYC, seasonal snow totals correlated to DJF average temperatures, to a point? And that the higher the average got above 35 or 36, the lower the seasonal snow totals? So I never cheer on warmth here in the winter, personally. 

[EastonSN+]

4 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

That was the early Jan storm. The late Jan storm crushed LI which is what he's probably thinking of

Here was one.

[EastonSN+]

6 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

 

A compact coastal snowstorm, briefly heralded as the Blizzard of '87, brushed by the New York City region yesterday, but buffeted much of southern New Jersey and parts of the New England coast with high winds and heavy snows.

The storm, spawned by another snowstorm in the Great Lakes on Sunday in which two people died, started off Cape Hatteras, N.C., and raced along the coast, sparking a winter thunderstorm in Philadelphia and gale-force gusts from Cape May, N.J., to Cape Cod, Mass.

One to three inches of snow fell in most of New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and Westchester County, where one motorist was killed and five others were injured in a four-car accident that the police said may have been weather-related.

Eight to twelve inches of snow, however, fell in parts of southern New Jersey, which was buried under 12 to 18 inches on Jan. 26-28. ''It's a mess,'' said Claire Lindholm, a police dispatcher in Cape May, which received 10 inches of snow and opened its civic center as a winter shelter for the first time. ''But we are getting used to it.'' Storm Downgraded

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/10/nyregion/snowstorm-just-brushes-new-york.html

 

 

just a few days prior

 

This is the one I was referring to in 2022.

[Volcanic Winter]

2 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

This is the one I was referring to in 2022.

This one was frustrating, I had nothing but virga. Did nicely a few days later with the rest of you though. 

[Stormlover74]

4 minutes ago, Volcanic Winter said:

This one was frustrating, I had nothing but virga. Did nicely a few days later with the rest of you though. 

I remember the nam kept showing me getting 1 or 2" the morning of. It was only off by 75 miles or so

[Allsnow]

12 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

I remember the nam kept showing me getting 1 or 2" the morning of. It was only off by 75 miles or so

That month was disappointing in our area. Missed south and east 

[Stormlover74]

Just now, Allsnow said:

That month was disappointing in our area. Missed south and east 

I had 2 good events certainly better than this month

[Allsnow]

1 minute ago, Stormlover74 said:

I had 2 good events certainly better than this month

We missed the big totals on 1/22 to the east and snow melted in between events quickly 

[lee59]

Looks like another storm passing near the benchmark on Sunday-Monday. Might have been a decent winter snow wise, just needed some cold air.

[Brian5671]

4 minutes ago, lee59 said:

Looks like another storm passing near the benchmark on Sunday-Monday. Might have been a decent winter snow wise, just needed some cold air.

This part of the winter is like 97-98 great storm tracks but no cold air

[bluewave]

1 hour ago, mattinpa said:

I am pretty freaked out by that 80. I know there is climate change, but wow!

We are just fortunate that these monthly maximum temperature extremes since 2015 have occurred closer to the cool season. Not sure if the power grid is up to the record demand 110° during the summer would produce. That’s roughly what a February 2018 and October 2019 magnitude warmth would look like in July. 
 

Time Series Summary for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ - Month of Feb
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Rank	Year	Highest Max Temperature	Missing Count
1	2018	80	0
2	1949	76	0
3	2017	74	0
-	1997	74	0
-	1954	74	0

 

Time Series Summary for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ - Month of Oct
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Rank	Year	Highest Max Temperature	Missing Count
1	2019	96	0
2	1941	93	0
3	1949	92	0