LibertyBell

Yes, I think it is used in Europe for their heat index calculations (which are more complex and also take into account wind speed and the angle of the sun above the horizon!)

ah okay! So the wet bulb only equals the dew point when the relative humidity is 100%, at which point they both intersect with the actual temperature! wait, I reread the definition for wet bulb you posted and it is also always either equal to or lower than the actual temp? can wet bulb be used in place of dew point for heat index calculations?

Looks like an uptick from the earlier edition, we're getting in on some of that banding even on Long Island.

No wonder Mt Holly issued that alert! An old style 80s snowstorm with more snow in Philly AND Boston. Snow to the south of us and snow to the North of us, and rain in between It's all rain here now.

I think it's just rain here now.

based on that definition, the wet bulb temperature seems to be same as the dew point?

Jan 1996 and Feb 1983 must have been great there too. There have been 4 20"+ storms here since 1983- Feb 1983, Jan 1996, Feb 2003 (PD2), Jan 2016, which was the best with over 30" Got screwed over in Feb 2006 with half the totals the city got. Jan 2011- do you mean Boxing Day? That was 18" here, close but not 20" Have only had 10" after February twice- March 1993 which changed to rain and March (1) 2009 which was just barely 10" here.

The revised disco coming out of Philly was alarming, they said there could be "large changes" to their forecast for Monday, because of the growing threat of a narrow band of 1-2" per hour rates there for several hours for a total of 4-6+ inches

PA is a skating rink, I-81 is closed now with 0.1" ice.

Looks like my other home in Carbon County, near Penn Forest Township is the furthest south county that has all snow? My home there is 2,000 ft asl so that helps.

On my frozen pond I can see ice pellets and a little coating of snow. But it's a dusting, nothing more.

wow even I got 5 inches in that one, so I guess yours is worse than mine. I've always thought that being just west of Staten Island would be a great spot for snow- your totals dont match Newark's I take it?

well think about it this way, if the SST that far south are still in the upper 80s and low 90s, how could August SST be even warmer than that? It's probably that the temps get that hot in August and stabilize near there until October. Thats how you get cat 5s coming out of the GOM in October like Michael and also going into Central America or even into the Southeast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hurricanes#Listed_by_month 6 of them in October, almost the equal of August (7), and significantly trailing only September (21). The first Cat 5 in the historical records is actually an October hurricane. Heck, there's even a November Cat 5 in that list! Michael, Matthew, Mitch and Wilma were all famous October Cat 5s.

How did you do in the April storm of the prior year, April 1996? That one got areas to your south in Monmouth with 6-9 inches.

even April 1997 was like this. If you were further south, in Monmouth, you'd probably do better lol.

Remember 08-09? There was an IVT band there in February I think that dumped 8-10" in the Philly area down to Delaware and South Jersey. We did okay- about 4" or so. Of course the guy who measured at JFK was derelict in his duties and left it at half an inch during the early stages of the storm and never measured again, even though there were snow plows out lol. They even commented about that on the news.

One of the reasons we have seen such a high usage of antianxiety pills, antidepressants, sleep meds, etc., and yet stress levels go higher and higher is because Western society is so toxic. It's every person for themselves and it can be isolating and drugs seem to be the only way to get away from the stress. Of course thats a wonderful plus for the pharma industry, which feeds off the misery of others. Most of these industries do. The rat race indeed- and we are the rats! It's a very clever way for those who built the maze to "divide and conquer!" Watch the movie Dark Waters- it's about DuPont dumping toxic waste in the waterways and ignoring when their own employees complained of high rate of birth defects. It took a class action lawsuit to uncover what DuPont had been hiding for over 50 years! They have a strong lobby, as does the rest of the chemical industry, which is why pesticides that cause brain damage in children like chlorpyrifos have been unbanned. PFOA and chlorpyrifos have been found in our blood and PFOA has been found in the blood of 99% of animals including polar bears and eagles.

5 min of sleet here then back to all rain

There was like 5 min of sleet here and then it went back to rain.

How long ago did the precip start there?

weird it's rain here, but the precip just started.

welp I spoke too soon lol it just started here and it's rain here no pinging.

Thanks! What I'm wondering though is that virga out ahead of the main precip? Because nothing is falling here.

Watch the new Meet the Press episode, they talked to John Kerry and Arnold Schwartzeneggar who joined together to make a bipartisan group about climate change and Arnold mentioned that California has the strongest environmental regulations and yet has the fastest growing economy too. They mentioned that job growth is fastest in the solar panel and wind power industry over everything else and people are leaving the oil fields to go work there. He also said he got many conservatives to join by framing the discussion in terms of pollution and disease (like higher asthma rates) rather than solely focusing on climate change.

I've always loved the old intellicast radar but it says snow on Long Island and that's clearly wrong.