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Officially Philadelphia, Wilmington, Trenton, Allentown & Reading have not recorded 100 degrees since 2012, same as Central Park. A # of locations listed above are known warm bias sites, take for instance the Franklin Institute. Pic of that rooftop instrument shelter is attached. Any wonder why that location would run warm LOL. Newark is a joke and has been addressed on multiple occasions by the NJ State Climatologist. NE Philly & SJ Regional have been running out of tolerance warm for years. You clearly lack consistency & need to treat the warm bias rooftops, helicopter pads, an ASOS next to miles of runway asphalt & 12 lanes of traffic.....garbage sites with the same degree of scrutiny as you do with the supposed vegetation issues at Central Park.

it most certainly is underrepresented when you limit to a specific hour that does not capture the full scope of the temp drop

Since you have "exactly" 48hrs as one of the data points the full scope of the 4/16-18 2003 temp drop is missed. Question would be how many others are underrepresented on that list? 4/16/2003, 4:00pm - 87 degrees 4/17/2003, 4:00am - 49 degrees 4/17/2003, 4:00pm - 40 degrees 4/18/2003, 4:00am - 37 degrees The actual high at Newark on 4/16/2003 was 88 degrees so that's a 51 degree temp drop in less than 36 hrs.

During the 2002 summer PHL never got to triple digits however did reach 99 degrees on 4 occasions, once in July & 3X in Aug. At the time Aug & Sept were top 10 warm months & Jul was the 11 warmest. The onslaught of warmth since that time has moved Jul & Sept down the list, Aug remains the 7th warmest on record.

1019 miles in 24 hrs. left MON at 1:00am for Buffalo, left Buffalo at 9:30am for Painesville, OH, left Painesville at 4:30pm & got home exactly at 1:00am this morning. 3 mins 48 secs of totality was more than worth it, spectacular event.

Heading to Buffalo tomorrow initially for business, leaving at 1:00am & hope to be finished by 10:00. Looks like that's not enough of a window to get far enough east of Watertown for prime time. Better plan to head SW for a few hours over to Cleveland area???

Don Sutherland's great, great, great, great.......grandfather

During the 22 years prior to 2002 the DRBC issued 5 drought warmings & 3 drought emergencies. There has much talk about the temp flip since the 15-16 Nino, the precip flip since the 2002-03 Nino has also been impressive.

For the Delaware River Basin we haven't had a true drought since 2002. By true drought I mean from a hydrological standpoint. The last drought warning / emergency ended in NOV 2002. The highest weekly drought severity indexes for the NE back to 12/2000 were during the 2002 drought peaking on 3/12/2002 with an index of 228. For a frame of reference the fall 2016 dry period peaked at 161, fall 2020 at 131 & the summer 2023 dry period topped off at 107. Since 2002 dry periods have been rare & when they happen they don't have a long shelf life. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DmData/DataTables.aspx

3.31" event total 28.87" since 12/1

from 10/1/23 - 11/20/23 Philadelphia recorded a lusty total of 0.79"

Since we transitioned to wet pattern in DEC Philadelphia has recorded: the 3rd wettest DEC on record the 5th wettest met winter on record wettest March day on record currently the 6th wettest March on record currently the 3rd wettest DEC-MAR period on record Despite a top 20 dry FEB Philadelphia precip records go back to 1872

Overall the brutal 1977 winter ended rather abruptly in the NE & quickly transitioned to one of the warmest springs regionally on record. At the time it was the 3rd warmest & even in the face of the recent run of warmth it still remains the 7th warmest on record for the northeast. Pretty amazing that the monster 42" Buffalo snow cover that peaked in early FEB was gone by March 5th. The May snow event is the ultimate late season fluke event especially for month that is still the 20th warmest May regionally. Boston was 92 degrees only a week after that event. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/regional/rankings/101/tavg/197705

Locally here around the Philly area JAN 1977 was actually a top 10 snowiest month at that time. 21 of 31 days had at least 2" of snow cover. Problem was the rest of the season was useless snowfall wise. Regardless given the current run of wretched winters I'd sign up for a redux in second.

77-78 winter was colder than all 3 of those winters. If you extend that out thru March 1977-78 was actually colder than that same period during 1976-77. The 2014-15 DEC-MAR period is only a tick warmer than the 1976-77 DEC-MAR timeframe. The 2015 JAN-MAR period was the coldest since 1934