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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.

Yes I just said this lol, it was my all time favorite spring and summer.

March 24 2010 is interesting, we had a very hot spring and summer that year, record breaking as a matter of fact.

March 24 2010 is interesting, we had a very hot spring and summer that year, record breaking as a matter of fact.

also a warm up coming with this rain, temperatures in the 50s after the two day cold shot

1717 - What was perhaps the greatest snow in New England history commenced on this date. During a ten day period a series of four snowstorms dumped three feet of snow upon Boston, and the city was snowbound for two weeks. Up to six feet of snow was reported farther to the north, and drifts covered many one story homes. (David Ludlum) I wonder how much we got from this storm and in this historic winter?

I hope not, I think squirrels are probably more responsible for it. Wasn't our big outage back in August 2004 (I hope I got the year right) blamed on squirrels or a squirrel?

Yes, it's probably either that or extinction. On the Kardashev scale it's predicted we would have some version of a warp drive in about 7,500 years but with the pace of technology I think it wouldn't take that long.

Yes, we better be. 250 million years or even 250 years is a hell of a long time in technological evolution.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01395#:~:text=Here we show that in,knowledge of heat and work. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01395 Perhaps not Don, this is interesting (I intuitively thought this might be the case because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle): Fluctuations of thermodynamic observables, such as heat and work, contain relevant information on the underlying physical process. These fluctuations are however not taken into account in the traditional laws of thermodynamics. While the second law is extended to fluctuating systems by the celebrated fluctuation theorems, the first law is generally believed to hold even in the presence of fluctuations. Here we show that in the presence of quantum fluctuations, also the first law of thermodynamics may break down. This happens because quantum mechanics imposes constraints on the knowledge of heat and work. To illustrate our results, we provide a detailed case-study of work and heat fluctuations in a quantum heat engine based on a circuit QED architecture. We find probabilistic violations of the first law and show that they are closely connected to quantum signatures related to negative quasi-probabilities. Our results imply that in the presence of quantum fluctuations, the first law of thermodynamics may not be applicable to individual experimental runs.

I think it should be pretty apparent we have switched to a drier pattern. CC is all about extremes so we will probably be switching back and forth between very wet (already happened) to very dry (happening now) back to very wet again.

I thought it would be 1966-67 since that was such an excellent late season too, but looks like 1955-56 was even better.

1956 was the best late season bar none, 21.1 inches in March followed by 4.2 inches in April, a total of 25.3 inches!

Thanks Chris, do you have a similar list for JFK?

The figure I saw for earth becoming uninhabitable was 250 million years into the future (this assuming no AGW.)

Energy can be created or destroyed, it's called virtual energy (and virtual particles) that can flit into and out of existence over very short time scales, but in any conventional sense it can't be created or destroyed. I'm sure people are fully aware of this with regards to fossil fuels too, but they simply do not care.

Yes they were exterminated the same way the Passenger Pigeon was. Humans have done horrendous things through history both to each other and to our fellow animals. For some really stupid reasons like feathers in hats. The people doing this must have been really pissed off when the women's rights movement decided to oppose this barbaric behavior by using fake fathers. This primitive behavior wasn't isolated to the United States either, barbaric colonizers who came to New Zealand decided to murder flightless parrots who live there in the middle of the night while they were sleeping with large nets and hammered them to death. These birds mate for life and refused to leave their mates while this mass murder was occurring. This in addition to the feral pests (cats, rats, etc.) who also preyed upon the native wildlife. Those flightless parrots were thought to be extinct, but a small population of them were found on an island which was blissfully free of humans and they are now vigorously protected. Ugly nearly hairless apes (as in humans) have always been jealous of other creatures who are much more attractive than they are and have always wanted what they have. Those are the facts. In a bit of poetic justice, we have large flocks of parakeets here in New York. These are called Monk Parakeets. They are extremely smart and very social and huddle near electrical wires for warmth during the winter.