LibertyBell

Wait it was 61 in NYC on December 29th? I thought the last time it was 60 was on December 11th?

I like that it's cold water! And I'm glad we don't live in a warmer climate like what Texas has. Did you hear about brain eating amoeba down there? It killed a child down there, his parents were doing a birthday party slip and slide for him and used their garden hose and the brain parasite made it into his body from the garden hose into his nose. He went into a coma and passed away. Very sad story.

I blame DuPont and 3M for all of this, they had safer alternatives but they didn't use them because of cost. On top of that they dumped millions of tons of the stuff into the waterways.

I would probably have extreme allergies down there, high humidity is an invitation for mold.

What are those things like? They look fun.

Is that a tap filter or something like a Brita?

Thanks for the research. I read that Long Island water has more of it than any other place in the state. I see NY and NJ both finally started testing for PFOA/PFAS in drinking water too.

How warm are we talking about Tony-- 50s but nothing 60 or higher?

and it sounds like the cooler weather to come in the first week of March will be less impressive than earlier forecasts too.

wow and we missed both snowstorms didn't we? Was that Norfolk's record for most snow in a month? I think their seasonal record is over 40"?

So somewhere between March 10-15 is when we switch into full time Spring Mode, Chris?

sounds familiar

I remember slipping and sliding walking to school a lot in the 80s and early 90s (I had to learn to walk carefully like a mountain goat so as not to fall in the ice) so there was definitely some snow and ice around, just not enough to close school unfortunately. What I remember the most though is the unrelenting wind, especially in January. I think the standards for wind chill warnings were different back then because we used to get wind chill warnings almost every winter with wind chills somewhere between -30 and -60. My best friends house was 2 blocks from me and I remember how hard it was to walk those two blocks in that biting icy wind every weekend.

Records: Highs: EWR: 74 (2017) NYC: 75 (1985) LGA: 73 (1985) JFK: 62 (2017) Lows: EWR: 4 (2015) NYC: -1 (1873) LGA: 6 (2015) JFK: 7 (2015) Historical: 1985 went from historic below zero cold in late January to historic mid 70s warmth in late February lol. This was very typical of the early - mid 80s! 2015 historic February arctic cold continues..... The snowstorm below in 1969 I've heard so much about, I wish we had gotten this, in addition to the Lindsey storm, it would have made for a historic winter! We didn't get any snow from the 100 hour storm did we, Tony? 1969: The famous "100-Hour Storm" began in Boston, MA. Snow often fell between early on the 25th and noon on the 28th. The 26.3 inches at Logan Airport is the 2nd most significant snowstorm in Boston's history. In addition, 77 inches fell at Pinkham Notch Base Station in New Hampshire, bringing their February total to 130 inches. Their snow cover on the 27th was 164 inches. Mt. Washington, NH, received 172.8 inches of snow in the month.

1989 - A total of thirty-three cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record low temperatures for the date, and an Atlantic coast storm spread heavy snow from Georgia to southern New England. Snowfall totals in New Jersey ranged up to 24 inches in May County, with 19 inches reported at Atlantic City. Totals in North Carolina ranged up to 18 inches in Gates County, and winds along the coast of North Carolina gusted to 70 mph at Duck Pier. Strong winds gusting to 52 mph created blizzard conditions at Chatham MA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) This was the infamous snow bust for us!

Yes I have a six stage filter too. The one I heard about was 1,4- Dioxane.

Yes but I remember people were even arguing then about 3 inches vs 4 inches and undermeasurement of snow lol.

wow we were very close this season, one more 2-3 inch storm would probably do it!!

I'm hoping we don't get them up here but I have bad news to report-- while spring cleaning yesterday I spotted mosquitoes....

In 88-89 and 89-90 too, some of our really snowless winters were pretty good down there.

or Milton, FL, a city I had never heard of until this year and found out they held the Florida record for snowfall and broke their own record with 10"! I think we need to add Florida snowfall maps to the KU book!! New Orleans too!!

It would be funny if it continued to snow more down there lol. Got to look into snowfall down there 70s and 80s, I know for sure there were several winters where DC had more snow than NYC, maybe Delaware did too ? Back in the late 80s and early 90s I had this portable radio that could get radio stations from distant cities, I got WBAL from Baltimore and WBZ from Boston and WMAQ (not sure if these are the right call letters) from Chicago. Late at night is when these distant signals came in and I would listen to snowfall forecasts from these cities while we were getting suppressed with cold and dry weather. (If it was raining it was more difficult to catch distant stations.) I tried to adjust the antenna on the radio to see what the most distant station I could catch was-- I think I got a station from Dallas or Houston once because they were broadcasting a basketball game from one of those cities. I did the same thing with my TV back then since we didn't have cable and I remember catching a TV station from Boston and one from Philly. One TV station I remember specifically was from Pittston, Massachusetts and another one was from Waterbury, CT.

Great another thing to worry about lol. There's already been a carcinogenic pesticide found in our tap water.

I have family there so I understand but I have been told the summers are not that good and there's rain almost every afternoon during the summer. I love boating too, I understand how short our boating season is, usually just June - September.

I think we should rename snow season to salt season ;-) (you know, because we seem to get more salt than snow!) So we can now finally say that salt season has apparently come to an end lol.