LibertyBell

They're showing these huge pythons in Florida on TV right now that are eating all the local wildlife.... and I thought the bugs and gators were bad wow. Reason number 1 not to live in Florida are these pythons!

Thanks Tony, we did come close in 2015 when we hit 9 degrees I think it was on the morning of February 28th?

1986: Light snow fell during the early morning hour in Jacksonville, Florida. A half inch of snow was reported at the Jacksonville International Airport, the highest amount ever recorded in March. another suppressive winter but we at least had average snow in that winter.

my favorite snowy March!

1980: March 1-3rd, North Carolina experienced a significant winter storm with heavy snow across the entire state and near blizzard conditions in the eastern part of the state. Widespread snowfall totals of 12 to 18 inches were observed over Eastern North Carolina, with localized amounts ranging up to 22 inches at Morehead City and 25 inches at Elizabeth City, with unofficial reports of up to 30 inches at Emerald Isle and Cherry Point. wow, I guess no snow here? but even this by itself is extreme.... Lows: EWR: 7 (1980) NYC: 4 (1869) LGA: 8 (1980) JFK: 8 (1980) Was this the last time we had single digits in March or has it happened since?

I mean this month finishing above average isn't going to be a very high bar to jump, looks like the majority of the days will be above normal. Doesn't have to be a torch to be above normal.

Yes it will be very difficult for us near the coast to get any higher than the 60s this month. 70 maybe somewhere in New Jersey before the end of the month far away from the ocean though

50s is fine.

Yeah, it's going to be in the 50s on the majority of the days like it has been for a week. We saw the switch of the seasons in the last week of February and it's not going to go back to continuous cold like it was in DJF.

cold neutral following la nina like 89-90 and 01-02 ??

Is this likely to be the last cold snap of the season coming up Sunday-Monday (cold snap = highs in the 30s or lower)?

The 60s aren't bad at all. Even the 50s seem pretty warm right now. As long as it's sunny the temperature doesn't matter all that much (as long as it's in the 40s or higher.)

a winter average temperature below 32.0 is what truly constitutes a cold winter....

Do not forget 1955, 1983 and 1993 !!

Especially 1944 my favorite summer prior to 1966 !!

Yes snowfall at Erie is going up while it's going down at Buffalo. Perhaps we have seen a predominant wind direction shift too?

Lake effect snow is very dependent on wind direction. For lake effect cities that have a significant amount of snow from synoptic events (like Buffalo) snowfall is going down, but for a city that gets a larger percentage of snow from lake effect (because of predominant wind direction), like Erie, snowfall is going up.

hopefully we get a continuation of the westerlies that have predominated since last October that would keep it sunny and warm.

1952 - An intense storm brought coastal sections of southeastern Massachusetts to a halt, stranding 3000 motorists on Lower Cape, and leaving ten thousand homes on the Cape without electricity. Winds gusting to 72 mph created mountainous snowdrifts of the 18 inches of snow which buried Nantucket and Hyannis. A barometric pressure reading of 29.02 inches was reported at the center of the storm. (The Weather Channel) 1952: A powerful Nor'easter hit Cape Cod with winds of 70-80 mph and snowfall amounts of 12-20 inches. These conditions created 12 feet drifts. any snow here with this storm, Tony?

Lows:EWR: 1 (1934)NYC: 5 (1934)LGA: 10 (2014)JFK: 11 (2014) wow February 1934 ended historically cold just as it began and February 2014 ended almost as cold as February 2015

we had an sswe in late March 2010 and hot April, an sswe in late March does not mean cool April, 92 in early April 2010

That giant hawk I took pictures of in my back yard might be here to stay. He or she was here for 4 hours today and even caught something (I don't know what it was-- either a mouse or squirrel or a small bird unfortunately) and sat in various branches of the same tree for 4 hours. I guess it's okay -- the rodent population will be kept down? At one point the giant bird spread out their tail feathers and looked like a small peacock on display (all while sitting in the same tree).

It would connect well with some theories concerning the multiverse, Don. Perhaps the real laws of thermodynamics extend over the entire multiverse rather than any one universe. The idea of universes coming into being from quantum soup via pair production near the event horizon of a higher dimensional black hole would seem to support this idea. Inflation seems to hinge on this multiverse concept.

It is a little difficult to figure out why benchmark tracks would specifically be impacted so much vs hugger tracks which are not that different from them. Maybe it has to do with the interaction of the SE Ridge and the Pacific Jet? If we didn't have the -5 AO everything would have cut this season. I think you could still get benchmark tracks even with a fast Pacific Jet if the SE Ridge was less strong in February OR if it was stronger in January and could have prevented those extremely suppressed tracks.

Minneapolis only had 16.4 inches of snowfall this winter, they are in even worse shape.