Pot kettle black. It was loosely CC. Sorry you didn’t like a few posts discussing summer heat events. I’ll remember this when you mention snow in any JJA thread.
Yeah I know Hot Saturday was humid, but some of those sling psychrometers were juiced back then. I know ASOS has its issues, but at least all of the sites are on the same automated playing field today.
I guess it depends on how you define “extreme” wrt storms. If we’re talking the amount of precipitation, sure. If we’re talking temp gradients, pressure gradients, wind, min slp, etc…I don’t know about that.
Yeah I think we’re less extreme than we used to be. We have a lot more moisture in our airmasses the past 2 decades and thermodynamically that limits the heating and cooling potential of the airmass. We torch way more on mins than max temps. With the arctic warming faster that should make for shorter wavelengths and less meridional patterns too.
It may be different in dry/drought areas, but in the northeast I think temps are less extreme.
The lack of snow south and west of us will play a role if/when Scoot’s posted pattern takes place. There’s going to be a lot less of a modification to said airmass and there will be an early green up in the deeper south and TN valley. We don’t have much snow to modify it for long either.
My low for the winter was 4.4° with about 30 seconds under 5° under calm conditions. I was essentially a 7b growing zone this season. I could’ve planted pomegranates last year and had them survive the entire winter.
Hires models are a little interesting. HRRR redevelops it far enough south in the GOM that we back the flow easterly for a bit while that potent ULL/vort moves in behind it.