A Moonlit Sky

1 hour ago, Cfa said:

Light snow in Bridgeport. The entire landscape here was covered in ice this morning, very stark difference from NYC/Long Island.

We were getting flurries in Stamford before. Nothing too exciting, but nice nonetheless. If you think the coast is ice though, just ten miles inland everything looks like glass.

4 hours ago, binbisso said:

Today

Scattered snow showers, mainly after 5pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 36. Wind chill values between 20 and 25. West wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Tonight

Scattered snow showers, mainly before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming clear, with a low around 15. Wind chill values between zero and 10. Northwest wind around 18 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Thursday

Sunny, with a high near 28. Wind chill values between zero and 10. Northwest wind 11 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Thursday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 22. Wind chill values between 10 and 15. Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph.

Friday

Sunny, with a high near 34. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.

Friday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 24.

Saturday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 37.

Saturday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.

Sunday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 38.

Monday

Sunny, with a high near 47.

Monday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 39.

Tuesday

Mostly sunny, with a high near 46.

I would really love to know where you get your data from I have to assume that you pick the warmest guidance and post it  here. If you take the average of the official National Weather Service forecast for the next 7 days it's slightly under 32 degrees which is about 4 degrees below normal which means we will be -1.9 through the 24th of December. Consequently we will have to finish the last 7 days averaging + 7 just to get to normal. The probability of that happening is highly unlikely. December will  finish with a negative departure. 

It's also worth remembering what the average high temperature is in December. Those terrifying +10 departures on some models are still in the mid-40s. That's relatively a torch, but it certainly doesn't feel unseasonably warm.

2 hours ago, EastonSN+ said:

Yeah.

Here in Easton only 5 and a lot of ice.

I've got just about 7" and ice here. It's been a pain though, because of the differences between home and Stamford where I work. Different climate south of the Merritt.

3 hours ago, White Gorilla said:

Jan 2016 was the ultimate interior screw job.  I literally felt sick to my stomach seeing a dusting while 90 miles south had an ultimate 2 feet blizzard.  This will be very hard to make up for. 

Kind of like how March 2001 feels for so many around NYC and New Jersey, although that feeling was worse for them since the bullseye was initially there.  We interior folks were never in the game to begin with in Jan 16. 

With perhaps one or two exceptions, all the large storms have targeted areas further south and east of the interior since January 2015.

48 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

He’s a Dewsh...plain and simple.  I find(as others have advised/said), that when you just ignore and don’t comment...it totally kills his plan of attack and ideas.  And all he has left to do is change his avatar two to three times a day. 

He’s a total TROLL!  If everybody ignores and doesn’t comment..it’s like he’s not even here/relevant.  

The only problem with simply ignoring posts or using the ignore feature is that you cannot ignore the multi-post/multi-page derails caused by people responding that have not started using the aforementioned features. You basically need an ignore user + ignore posts quoting an ignored user feature.

2 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

don't worry the rain will wash it away.  interesting NYC still uses sand, the state of CT banned it about 10 years ago (local towns can use it if they wish)

Banned sand? I thought we banned the salt?

What if we're close enough to be in the NY metro, but not NYS?

Gentlemen, there's a user ignore list and it's glorious.

Just a quick PSA.

Looks like 3" here. It looked spectacular this morning though with the tree branches completely covered.

Rain and 50 here.

8 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

 

At Citi Field those 3 weenies require a loan to be taken out.

New owner soon tho.

Looks like we got 4-5" total between Sunday and Monday. Surpassed my expectations.

Just now, weathafella said:

I mean this sincerely-this is one of your better posts.

Man, don't set the bar too high.

lol I'm the rain/snow line in Stamford. Radar shows it right over me.

21 hours ago, MetHerb said:

Weeks? 

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCTBROOK13/table/2019-10-31/2019-10-31/monthly

Prior to this morning it's been 8 days since I've had a low in the 50s.  Prior to that I have to go back to early October.

Are you on a hill top?

From a few pages back, but yeah. That's probably part of the issue. That and perception has a recency bias that I'm probably not overcoming.

For me, the biggest issue has been the low temperatures being in the 50s for what feels like weeks.

4 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

He’s just finally getting out to the burbs and away from college city campuses. He’ll spot a bear next which will trigger a complete meltdown. 

The big city of Danbury!

I dunno, I think he has a point. I've been noticing more and more spiders the past few years. Maybe I'm just more aware?

87 Stamford.

87 in Stamford.

Courant says at least two dead.

16 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

MSNBC has a great series on the climate catastrophe.  They interviewed a scientist who used to work for the USDA, who has since left to work for Columbia university because the administration wouldn't let him publish his research.  He showed that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually changes plant metabolism and makes our crops less nutritious, with lower levels of zinc and iron.  They also sent people down to Guatemala to show how climate change is causing the mass migration of people from Central America, because they cant grow their crops down there anymore and are starving.  The administration's own people told them this a year ago but they chose not to disclose it.
 

In addition, I've read analysts that believe the Arab Spring generally, and the Syrian civil war specifically, to be related to climate change.

25 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Mostly...but some really aren't too kind.    Mostly in jest. We have the clown who drives around with his pickup truck covered in the Confederate flag, neighbors who refused tohelp pay for our road's snowplowing when we were still considered a private road, etc.    Typical stuff... there is an undercurrent of distrust and hostility from some folks though.

I don't get the confederate flag thing when you're north of Delaware. Unless you're a southern transplant, how is it a relevant part of your own background?

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

cities are subsidized by your state taxes, great majority of tax revenue is distributed to cities. Oh you pay 

Yes, but that's far from an accurate picture of the cause and effect.

That said, we can put this discussion to bed. The temperature has dropped by 20 degrees outside and it's ended up being a lovely evening.

12 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Lol what costs do you pay for me. 

Sorry, didn't see this before. I live in a suburb, so I'll speak for myself: I make money in a city, pay my taxes to state and town. Use state infrastructure and, in particular, city services and infrastructure without paying anything for it. When I leave at night, I take my tax revenue with me.

14 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Does "rural area" equal "suburbia", as the above seems to imply?  And who gets to determine the social contract, to quantify the enormous external costs, and to decide what and how subsidies would be eliminated?  Maybe nobody will tell me not to live where I do, but property tax rates could be augmented by a giant national (or beyond) surcharge to account for how selfishly wasteful we're supposedly living, which could force my hand.  We burn locally harvested wood as our major heat source, keep the thermostat at 62 (woodstove is in our living room) and haven't run the AC since 2013.  However, we live 500' from our nearest neighbor on a gravel road, so in some people's minds that would put a big financial bullseye on our place even though our carbon footprint seems relatively modest, at least by US standards.

Rain has arrived in Augusta - still light so I'm heading out before it gets serious (if it ever does today.)

Not necessarily. That is my fault for being imprecise in my language. For social contracts, I'm speaking in the Lockean or Rousseauian sense. For some background, you can find information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

I do want to point out that I'm not trying to make a moral argument that you and your lifestyle are bad.

Subsidies are both direct and indirect, and they touch on fiscal policy, city planning, tax incentives, history, and a variety of other factors. I won't take up a large amount of space in this thread writing out what others have studied and spoken about more eloquently. I would direct you here: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/03/how-much-sprawl-costs-america/388481/ for a quick primer on what I am discussing.