LibertyBell

having a wet milder winter with more snowfall might actually be beneficial to plants like these since snow insulates them from the cold.

I dont know why some people have so much trouble with this concept. It's not hard to see how the industrial revolution has adversely affected the planet on a variety of levels. Patrick Moore puzzles me, he used to be associated with Green Peace. They kicked him out so he has an axe to grind with the planet? He probably isn't well-versed enough in science to know that higher CO2 means plants have less nutritive value- they lose their content of certain minerals that we need- like zinc and iron.

74 mph gust reported at Stony Brook- is that on an elevated platform again?

Crazy that places like Dallas and San Antonio got their first freeze before we did! Atlanta will likely also.

Crazy that it was +33 in Barrow, Alaska while it was -44 in Utah! Talk about jet stream extremes!

Summer is four months here right now (JJAS) and with the last 80s now occurring in the first half of October, might be expanding into October also.

America is run by large corporations that prey on people's perceptions.

the rise in sea levels and king tides flooding major cities has become pretty consistent. hell, babylon was flooded with the event during the week even though the winds weren't all that strong.

the amount of annual rainfall and higher dew points are going up rapidly too

I saw both Orlando (hit 91 yesterday, a national record) and Miami had their warmest Octobers on record.

The early season storm a year later was much better for us 8"!

Funny thing is I was reading some of those posts just before a large gust took out my power here- for 25 hours!

The storm a year later was similar (but more snow for us), very little on the north shore but 8" from the LIE down to here. LIS is too warm for these early season events.

Thats probably why I saw people running like hell when it happened the first time. No one was around the other two times it happened. Weird thing is I thought transformers going off create a popping sound. Maybe it happened far away and thats why I saw it in the sky rather than sparks going off around me and didnt hear any sounds?

Maybe those weird multicolored lights I saw in the sky were transformers popping? But there was no sound and the entire sky was covered in lights- weird! Happened 3x between midnight and 1 am.

It did reach 60 mph but that wasn't the strangest thing about last night. I dont know if any of you others saw this but I saw something happen three times between midnight and 1 am last night. It looked like three bouts of very long duration lightning (15 seconds each time or more) that caused the entire sky to glow (but no sound.) The really weird part was that the light rapidly changed color from white to blue to red to yellow or orange to a very vivid emerald green. That happened three different times and the glowing lights covered the entire sky. What was this? The cold front passed around 1:30 am and things calmed down after that.

California has been having a lot of dry winters even during el ninos.

and it looks like this dry west pattern will continue for the foreseeable future!

paid for lol- you do realize you are talking about the fossil fuel CARTEL?! it's just as corrupt as the tobacco CARTEL or the pharma CARTEL or the ag CARTEL or the Colombian drug CARTEL ever were.

It's amazing that some people make the same "arguments" they made decades ago, they are just as invalid now as they were back then and are the reason we haven't made progress.

all you need to see is the trend from how the forest fire season has evolved from a short season to a year long occurrence.

The interesting thing is we were pretty well certain about this even back during the 80s. Actually if you want to go even further back, Exxon's own scientists were aware of it in the 70s, but just like the Tobacco industry, they suppressed the research (which is part of the reason they are considered a cartel and not an industry.)

Whats causing ceiling to be so low? The east wind? It's partly sunny down here (literally down in this case lol.) There was a plane crash in our area..... This reminds me of early summer and we're waiting for the sun to "burn" through lol. It almost is.

Didn't go last year? There should be a lull during the early evening hours.

About the same here in Nassau County. We needed the storm to be a bit further east.