LibertyBell

You sure do love covering yourself up.

Thanks Tony, also medium range look for the total lunar eclipse on Pi Day 3/14 at 3:14 AM (lol), looks like good weather to see it? Totality is for around 1 hour (2:30 am - 3:30 am) approximately.

So the decent winter of 1986-87 was basically over by now and we almost hit 80 degrees. It's amazing how the great winter of 1995-96 kept going and we were record cold on this date back then! I guess 1717 must have been a great winter for our area too if there were snow drifts like that on Long Island Sound! March 1984--- we had a nice snowstorm from that, over 6 inches of snow I think? March 1989-- were we in the teens for that Arctic Outbreak, Tony? Records: Highs: EWR: 77 (1987) NYC: 76 (1987) LGA: 74 (1987) JFK: 72 (1987) Lows: EWR: 13 (1996) NYC: 8 (1883) LGA: 14 (1996) JFK: 14 (1996) Historical: 1717 - On Fishers Island in Long Island Sound, 1200 sheep were discovered to have been buried under a snow drift for four weeks. When finally uncovered, one hundred sheep were still alive. (The Weather Channel) 1909 - The town of Brinkley AR was struck by a tornado which killed 49 persons and caused 600,000 dollars damage. The tornado, which was two-thirds of a mile in width, destroyed 860 buildings. Entire families were killed as houses were completely swept away by the tornado. Tornadoes killed 64 persons and injured 671 others in Dallas and Monroe counties during the Arkansas tornado outbreak. (David Ludlum) 1984 - A freak thunder snowstorm produced high winds, vivid lightning, and up to seven inches of snow in the northern suburbs of Washington D.C. (Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1987 - Thirty-two cities in the eastern U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Madison WI with a reading of 71 degrees. Afternoon highs of 68 degrees at Houghton Lake MI and 72 degrees at Flint MI smashed their previous records for the date by fourteen degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - A cold front brought wintry weather to the north central U.S. Snowfall totals in northwestern Minnesota ranged up to eight inches at Roseau and Hallock. Winds in South Dakota gusted to 61 mph at Brookings. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - While arctic cold gripped the northeastern U.S., unseasonably warm weather prevailed across the southwestern states. Albany NY reported a record low of 2 degrees below zero. Tucson AZ reported a record high of 90 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)

It's true, everything seems to start up at 5 am, the garbage truck comes by, our local post office opens up for mail delivery trucks, etc.

Tony, what do you think.... is tonight / tomorrow morning our last freeze of the season for urban and near urban areas?

Some things I've noticed about clippers is that the kind of track they used to take back in the 80s and 90s, which was across the DelMarVa or offshore off of southern NJ has migrated farther north and now those clippers go across upstate NY and/or New England. And they're also much more moisture starved than they used to be-- back then they were good for at least 2-4 / 3-5 inches of snow and sometimes 4-6. Now getting 1-2 inches out of such storms is a big deal. It's why our moderate sized snowstorms have become so rare.

It has something to do with solar noon being at 12 noon vs 1 pm. They've been saying that having equal amounts of light both before and after 12 noon is beneficial to our health. I'm not sure about that being a permanent issue, it's more like a short term thing because I think our bodies adjust to Daylight time. It might be better to take it easy for the first week and go to sleep earlier though. I do know that the day after the time change there's a spike in heart attacks, strokes and car accidents, so whatever we choose we should stick with it. The 30 minutes ahead option year round might be the best to satisfy the most people.

No it's the fast pacific jet, we've had this same thing before in the 80s, this is worse with more warming plus that heatwave out in the Pacific. Back in the 80s I noticed this as a teen that there were two predominant tracks for storms that go west to east, one goes south of us the other goes north of us. NYC is in a bad spot for west to east storms because we are too far south for one track and too far north for the other track and this is why DC beat us for snowfall so often back then, for us to get good amounts of snow we need south to north or southwest to northeast tracks. This is even moreso the case now because clippers have become much more rare.

It's not lol, he picked 7 years because it's been 7 years since our heavy snow period ended in 2017-18.

What made it fail? I'm neutral on this and can make arguments both ways, we should just stick to one and not change back and forth A third option is keep it 30 minutes ahead of standard time all year long.

Is there really much of a difference between the sun rising at 4 am or 5 am in July? I would be sleeping through it either way. I have black out curtains, everyone should, it also keeps light pollution at bay. Healthcare workers point to numerous signs that Daylight time is bad.

Yes 4" events were much more common back then, we had at least one in even our worst winters.

health workers want to go to permanent standard time though. The solution is simple, schools should start later. There is NO reason to start school at 8 am or earlier. The school day should be no longer than 6 hours, 9 AM TO 3 PM. I HATED waking up in the morning even back then and was routinely either late or simply skipped the first class and told the teacher to just give me the tests and I'll Iearn on my own and take them myself. They usually obliged (I took the tests in their office when I was high school and helped them with grading tests so I got extra privileges.)

Yes they were, it looked like being on Mars and it smelled like being in the woods :-)

That three day total in February 1920 was the greatest winter storm in NYC history and would have been 50" of snow if it was all snow.

I can explain the triangle part, that's the only geometrically sound way to serve a round pizza. Just think about how a round object is sliced into equal pieces. As far the square box is concerned, well, it's cardboard and this is how cardboard is typically made. Women are harder to understand than any of the above though.

Yes, this is why it's so much easier to hit a forecast for rainfall than it is for snowfall-- rainfall has more areal coverage in our part of the world. But elsewhere, like the Rockies, for example, a forecast for snowfall is more likely to be correct. They aren't on as much of a fine line as we are.

NYC climate history is a real treasure trove, there may not be another like it anywhere in the world.

Don how is 1917-18 on this list, wasn't that an exceptionally cold and snowy winter? I see how three prior periods of my life are on this list though: 1983-1986 1987-1990 1996-2000 Without a couple of storms, 1983-1990 could have been number 1 lol.

JFK record windiest winter at 35 mph on average Ironically their least windiest winter was 1995-96

government weather control device to promote wind turbines lmao

yeah this cold was widespread, Boston was cold DJF all three months too

at least for JFK, this has been the windiest winter, over 35 mph average wind speed. Interestingly, 1995-96 was the least windy winter.

He stated he was comparing it to the last 2 seasons when saying it was much better though.

the wind really sucks and made me sick last night. sunny and dry is fine without wind. don't want any big storms (the wind is more detrimental than the rain is beneficial), small amounts of rain are good, the side effects of the wind outweigh any of the benefits of the rain it's not dumb, we are doing controlled burns here, you can't control the weather, but you can definitely control the foliage-- remember that. We need to get it down to what it was 20+ years ago.