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February 2026 OBS & Discussion


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15 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Serious question 

Does Snowman19 have unlimited weenies ?

Anthony I pray Mama and the Bambino are doing well.            
If S19 wasn’t post limited his counter point posts during the cold season would rival Liberties output. Rob’s great response reminds me of the Equalizer and after reading Nibor’s post all I can think of is where will I find a tool like that if I ever get social again. Stay well, you and the family, as always ……

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3 minutes ago, rclab said:

Anthony I pray Mama and the Bambino are doing well.            
If S19 wasn’t post limited his counter point posts during the cold season would rival Liberties output. Rob’s great response reminds me of the Equalizer and after reading Nibor’s post all I can think of is where will I find a tool like that if I ever get social again. Stay well, you and the family, as always ……

Where is liberty bell?   haven't seen him here in awhile

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Looking at some buoy data,  the ocean buoys from about Virginia/ north Carolina north all show water temps in the 30s, further north you go the closer to 32 they get.  Only 1 well south/ east of montauk shows 41°F water temps.  

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Just now, WeatherGeek2025 said:

I am back guys and i made a thread for Presidents' day storm potential

 

 

Snowman weenied this message and hates the idea of this event so much that he had to also click into the thread itself to send a weenie there. You know, to show how much he hates that thread and how he wants nothing to do with it. 

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4 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

Whole winter's been dry with limited southern stream action

nj.com has a piece today on the lack of rain; north jersey is under drought conditions. they need the snow to melt and feed the reservoirs. and we need rain, snow, sleet whatever we can get...

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Somewhat cooler weather has returned to the region. Temperatures will mainly top out in the middle to upper 30s tomorrow. The weekend will see highs in the upper 30s and lower 40s. It could become even milder with highs in the lower to perhaps middle 40s next week.

Some precipitation could arrive on Sunday or Monday. 

The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +0.3°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was -0.5°C for the week centered around February 4. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged -0.25°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.52°C. La Niña conditions will likely continue into at least late winter.

The SOI was +7.93 today. 

The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was -0.731 today. 

Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied near 93% probability that New York City will have a cooler than normal February (1991-2020 normal). February will likely finish with a mean temperature near 31.5° (4.4° below normal). 

Supplemental Information: The projected mean would be 3.8° below the 1981-2010 normal monthly value. 

Overall, Winter 2025-2026 is on track for a seasonal mean temperature of 31.9°. That would be the lowest winter mean temperature since Winter 2014-2015 when the mean temperature was 31.7°. Winter 2025-2026 would only become the fourth winter of the 21st century with a mean temperature of 32.0° or below.

 

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3 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Definitely a more traditional Nina-like pattern coming up for the rest of February. But it’s really interesting that we see a piece of the cooler Northeast relative to other areas which has been in place since November continuing.

So more of a close to average temperature pattern here with the warmest temperatures missing our area. Longer term the models are forecasting a transition to El Nino. Nina to Nino summer transitions typically haven’t been very warm here like we saw during years like 2023, 2009, 1997 and 1986.

But the last strong drought La Nina to El Nino in 2002 was very warm. That year was a much warmer winter than we just had. So we can see competing influences this year with extreme drought across much of the CONUS and a lingering cold pool near the Northeast.

So it will be interesting to see if the Northeast can hold onto the local cooler readings relative to other areas. Or the drought feedback ridge to our west eventually builds into the Northeast with the heat.

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Really hoping we can get some ridging here into the spring. Last thing I want is endless gunk on easterly winds. It just makes it miserable and doesn’t help the drought. 

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10 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Really hoping we can get some ridging here into the spring. Last thing I want is endless gunk on easterly winds. It just makes it miserable and doesn’t help the drought. 

Feels like we haven't had a Spring with nice long lasting ridging in quite some time! 

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18 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Really hoping we can get some ridging here into the spring. Last thing I want is endless gunk on easterly winds. It just makes it miserable and doesn’t help the drought. 

This has been our coolest November to mid-February in over a decade.

But since the Northern stream and Western ridge was so dominant, we couldn’t achieve the snowfall totals of 1996, 2014, 1994, 2003, and 2011.

Some lingering influence from the longer term lower snowfall pattern since 2018-2019 even though this winter was much colder.

But I am very happy we got our big benchmark snowstorm which brought many close to the long term 25 to 30 average with the more active STJ for a week in late January.
 

Time Series Summary for NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, NJ Coolest 11-1 to 2-12 periods since 1991
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.
1 1996-02-12 33.7 0
2 2014-02-12 35.1 0
3 1994-02-12 35.3 0
4 2026-02-12 35.4 0
- 2003-02-12 35.4 0
5 2011-02-12 35.8 0
6 2001-02-12 35.9 0
7 2015-02-12 36.1 0
8 2004-02-12 36.2 0
9 2009-02-12 36.8 0
10 2018-02-12 36.9 0
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