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Interesting news stories from 1950 lol, I take it the Korean war was ongoing?

Even 49/40 at Pittsburgh! Are we sure wildfires in Western Canada caused all this? It looks like night time in the middle of the day....

Thanks, I'd love to see some pictures from this, I wonder what the AQI would have been?

I wonder how strong it is forecast to be when it approaches land

it's been nice and sunny here today lol Not looking forward to widespread heavy flooding =\

1950 - A smoke pall from western Canada forest fires covered much of the eastern U.S. Daylight was reduced to nighttime darkness in parts of the Northeast. The color of the sun varied from pink to purple, blue, or lavendar. Yellow to grey-tan was common. (24th-30th) (The Weather Channel) wow the color of the sun sounds quite pretty, the rest sounds like a nightmare. This makes our recent bouts with Canadian wildfire seem like child's play-- what caused the wildfire smoke from over 3,000 miles away to specifically target our area? I wonder what the NYC skyline looked like at that time?

1989 - Forty-seven cities between the Rockies and the Appalachians reported record low temperatures for the date. Lows of 38 degrees at Abilene TX, 34 degrees at Jackson KY, and 36 degrees at Midland TX established records for the month of September. The low of 36 degrees at Midland smashed their previous record for the date by thirteen degrees. Fayetteville AR and Springfield MO reported their earliest freeze of record. Thunderstorms produced torrential rains in northeastern Florida. Jacksonville was deluged with 11.40 inches of rain, and flash flooding resulted in two deaths. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) I always wondered what caused 1989-1990 to be as extreme as it was, from extreme cold and widespread severe weather and Thanksgiving snow and December arctic cold to record warmth January thru March. What I remember the most though is how early all the fall foliage dropped from the trees thanks to the early extreme cold and very windy weather. ALL the leaves were off the trees here before Halloween! That has not happened before nor since. EWR: 92 (2017) NYC: 91 (2017) LGA: 91 (2017) JFK 92 (2017) Clean sweep for 2017 and everyone was within one degree of each other, that must be VERY rare (I wonder if there's ever been an instance of the same record high temperature at all 4 locations at the same time?)

I don't get it, lol. I save so much text on my hard drives, they should easily be able to store everything going all the way back to 1869 when records began. It's like that silly video limit on here.

No wonder Jeff Smith was talking about massive flooding potential in the evening newscast today! He did say we would clear in time for the weekend and maybe as early as Friday morning the sun would come out.

Wow those were two truly historic blizzards who would have thought Cape May was the snowfall capital of NJ with 34 inches of snow in that 1899 blizzard lol. and that 1872 storm would be an absolutely amazing storm to have on Boxing Day, does this mean we actually have three Boxing Day blizzards? In 1872, 1947 and 2010? Boxing Day blizzards are more common than President's Day blizzards lol. Don how much snow did we have during that December 29, 1917 day when the low was -6 and the high was 8, that must have been an extremely rare day with a high in the single digits and a low well below 0!!

Yes Oymjakon is the coldest inhabited town on the entire planet.

But isn't this normal Chris? Siberia is the coldest permanently inhabited place in the world and Oymjakon specifically is considered the coldest town on the entire planet (along with Verkhoyansk) they comprise the famous Cold Pole. This is a nice change from when they were blazingly hot and wildfires were burning there though.

That was the first of two pink snowstorms I have seen in my entire life-- at sunrise it was still snowing heavily but the clouds were starting to break up and it looked like a pink blizzard was happening outside for awhile. I think Far Rockaway jackpotted in that storm (Jamaica Bay effect snow?) if I remember correctly they had 11 or 12 inches of snow? LGA had 80:1 ratios and the rest of us had 25:1 to 40:1 ratios.

this is an absolutely outrageous late season heatwave, our latest heatwave on record? To get 4 straight days of 90+ and 3 straight days of 95+ would be very impressive in the middle of summer, but after the autumnal equinox-- WOW!!

it must have sparkled like pixie dust lol

103 in late September?? omg if that happened now people would go CRAZY Is that the highest temperature ever recorded in our area after the autumnal equinox, Tony?

That really sounds like the kind of weather I would have loved, higher highs and lower lows lol. I know March 1896 was the first time we had 30 inches of snow in one month too. There was a big blizzard in one of those years in January with temperatures near 0 too. Question, how can you have a blizzard with temperatures near 0? Wouldn't the air have to be coming off the ocean? What's the coldest temperature we have ever had in 10 inches or more of snow (high low split during snowfall) Don?

There's a hurricane that's going to hit the Azores, they're going in the wrong direction lol.

Just like back in 1895 and 1896 (I kid but you know what I mean lol).

NYC: 97 (1895) now THIS is pretty crazy lol

it was 97 on this date back in 1895, I wonder if that was our latest upper 90s on record Don (upper 90s = 97-99), we had some crazy heat in the 1890s (a 10 day heatwave in 1896 too).

Looks like October might be warm and dry just like it was last year.

This is much better than 50s with wind, omg I hate that weather.

Maybe this isn't the last 80s just yet Don?

Yes it was both cold and dry, DC got more snow than we did lol. (this was common during the 80s). When we did get a storm up here in December 1989 that was supposed to be a big snowstorm it changed to rain very quickly LOL, a diametrically opposite bust from the virga storm of February 1989