September 2025 OBS-Discussion centered NYC subforum

[gravitylover]

4 hours ago, bluewave said:

I mostly remember how cold it was waiting for the school bus every morning during those late 70s winters.

I never lived far enough from a school to take the bus. There were some crazy cold walks and the wind off the water was always in your face. The good old days...

[Sundog]

7 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

I never lived far enough from a school to take the bus. There were some crazy cold walks and the wind off the water was always in your face. The good old days...

I remember being on the bus waiting for a kid to get on in 1994 when we went below zero and as we were waiting, some store clerk came outside with a bucket of water and he poured it toward the sewer down the side of the street and the water never made it since it froze in seconds.  

[Roger Smith]

The snow depth mystery is basically explained by fact that snow depth is measured early in the day before most of the snow falls, so it increases the day after the snowfall report in most cases.