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The problem is that in New England we get endless 80s and 90s with high dews in the summer, but nothing ever comes of it. Severe season sucks here and everything seems to fizzle even on hot days. Plus we haven't had a cane in over 30 years, so what's the point of having heat? I'm all set with swamp ass and bugs. 70s all summer sounds great to me.

Summers aren't that cold in Nova Scotia. Halifax average high in the summer is 74 which is nice. Personally I could go without 80s and 90s. Too hot for me, thank you!

Was just thinking about how Nova Scotia seems to get much more interesting weather than New England. They get way more hurricanes than New England, and they also get buried by more snowstorms in the winter. They get the best of both. The only thing they don't get there is severe weather, but we don't even get that here either. It must be a nice place to live.

Not often do you see a HWW for western areas but not eastern.

During hurricane season I follow the weather thread on Yale Climate Connections which used to be on Weather Underground. It seems like every single month they post the headline "X month was the Xth warmest on record". They've basically been saying that about every month for years now. I don't know how much of it is actual fact or if there is some sort of global warming agenda on that site. But in all the years that I've been following that forum, not ONCE have I ever seen a month or year pass that wasn't "record warm". I mean yeah the climate is obviously warming, but does that mean that we never have a single month pass that isn't record breaking globally? Just an average month?

One of those southerly screamers. Let's get a 03/06/59 redux.

I can still remember driving along the Connecticut shoreline in the Mystic area in Feb 2015 with nothing but frozen ocean as far as the eye can see. That was something, especially for typically mild coastal locations. Wouldn't it be nice if every winter was like that? It really makes you appreciate anomalies like that.

The Day After Tomorrow

Obviously it wont happen but It would be pretty cool to see that March hurricane off the east coast that the GFS has had for a couple of runs. Its much more impressive to get something to form in February/March than January or April, since those months have had a handful of storms but February and March have only had one each.

Largest ever snowstorm in PVD for the month of March was 14.7" on 03/19/56. That month was like the March version of Feb 2015 with a snowstorm every week. 31.6" in March 1956 and 31.8" in Feb 2015.

Yes, its not a question of "if" but rather "when". As much as I don't want to have a to wait another whole year or more for a big one, its looking increasingly likely. It wouldn't even be so bad if we at least had entertaining weather in the summer time, but we just don't. Can't even get decent severe weather or hurricanes up here anymore. The 80s and 90s had much more severe weather events. So at least 10 out of 12 months of the year feature boring weather. It's gotten to the point where I look forward to those southerly screamers in the fall, because thats about all that I have to look forward to in terms of weather now. CC sucks.

I wish we could get another 03/19/56 or April Fools Day 1997 late season big one to lift the spirits. Unfortunately nature is going to do what nature wants to do, and it doesn't matter how much we want it to happen.

It won't verify lol it never does

I just noticed that BOX records added some missing data from the 90s. Originally I though that 01/29/22 was the largest single-day snowfall at PVD with 18.8", but it turns out it was actually 01/08/96 with 19.0". Storm total for that event was 24.5", the second-largest on record for PVD after 1978. Also, April Fools Day 1997 dropped 18.0" at PVD, which wasn't in the records before.

I remember that extreme June 2021 heat wave in the Pacific NW that blew away long standing all-time records by like ten degrees. I wonder what an equally extreme event like that around here would be like? 115F in PVD, where it rarely even hits 100F?

I agree with this. Something I found interesting though is how the 1970s actually had very high dews in the summer, and yet still were able to set all-time records. Take for instance the 104F reading at PVD on 08/02/75 with a dewpoint of 77F. That sounds like a pretty moist airmass to me. The all-time dew point record for PVD is 81F set on both 07/16 and 07/21 of 1977.

So the 70s were just a fluke? Our temperature extremes nowadays definitely seem moderated compared to what we saw in the 70s which had lots of all-time heat and cold records.

The funny thing about CC is that everyone expects it to create more extremes with the weather, but in actuality this is not always the case. If anything it seems like CC is moderating our climate. I mean, look at the 1970s. That was probably one of the most extreme decades in the weather database for heat, cold, and snow. PVD's third coldest ever temperature of -13F on 01/23/76. How about their 30 degree positive departure on 04/19/76, when PVD hit 98F? Or 08/02/75 when PVD reached an insane 104F with a dewpoint of 77F? Not only did that day have all-time record heat but also absurd dew point readings. What about the once in a 500 year snowstorm on 05/09/77 that dropped 7.0" in PVD? That decade also had some insane 24 hour temperature drops. 02/02/76 went from 51F to 5F and if you want to include Christmas 1980 just for the heck of it since it was close to the 70s, PVD went from 35F to -10F that day. Not to mention the blizzard of 78 of course during that decade. Why were the 1970s in particular so extreme around here and we haven't broken these records since then?

My mistake. But my point still stands. When was the last time we had a positive bust of that magnitude? 1978? 12/23/97 and 12/09/05 were good but not on that same magnitude. Id say we are overdue for one.

Even Portland, OR is having a better winter than us. The forecast for them was a dusting and instead they measured 10.8" at the airport! https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2024/02/is-portland-facing-another-february-snow-storm.html I wish that we would get a positive bust of that magnitude.

This makes a lot of sense. Also, especially with regards to hurricanes, it seems like there are certain tracks that we just don't see anymore. Aside from the lack of NE hurricanes, a good example are classic Caribbean cruisers like Allen, Gilbert, Ivan, Dean. 2007 was the last one but in the decades before that they were quite common. Maybe we get one this year but they really do seem like a thing of the past. The records are too short of a time span to make any correlations and hurricane tracks probably have nothing to do with CC at all but I still find it interesting.

Yeah we have definitely seen less EMLs in recent years than we used to. June 1, 2011 Springfield tornado is the one exception that comes to mind. There was a decent EML in place that day. I'm not sure if May 15, 2018 had an EML in place either. But even still I would say that neither of those events compare to what we saw regularly in the 80s and 90s, and of course 1953. Also, June 6, 2010 had massive potential with very high end parameters in place, but it still busted badly if I recall. Maybe it's just coincidental that we haven't had the right atmospheric setups that we used to get that brought us severe weather and hurricanes. It's probably just random cycles rather than some CC induced change but who knows.

I've wondered the same thing before. It seems like both hurricanes and major severe outbreaks used to happen in the northeast, but not anymore. How about the May 31, 1985 tornado outbreak that produced 9 violent tornadoes? Or the May 31 1998 high risk day that produced seven F3's in NY state? Or all the derechos we used to see in the 80s and 90s. We don't see any of that anymore. Why is that?

You can say the same thing about severe weather. Why doesn't the northeast US get the same major severe outbreaks that we used to get? Multiple intense derechos in the 80s and 90s, 05/31/85 tornado outbreak, also a high risk day on 05/31/98 that produced seven EF3's in NY state. Don't forget about the 1953 Worcester tornado. I wonder what was the return period for that is? The 50s were crazy. Major hurricanes and F4 tornadoes. You would think that those events would be more common nowadays with all this warming climate, but they're not.

Alaska was amazing. I would honestly move there if it wasn't for the astronomical prices of literally everything. Plus the fact that its in the middle of nowhere and food in the supermarket is not fresh at all. There is also a lot of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse, particularly in Anchorage.