weatherpruf

it really wasn't much north of monmouth county in nj tbh...if this had been snow it would have been a monmouth ocean special while we struggled to get six inches or so, seen it many times. hope its not a pattern this winter, though not expecting much anyway with this el nino. kinda glad i missed the brunt of it as i hate power outages who doesn't. a few branches down here but nothing to be worried about; worst seemed to be saturday night. never got torrential rains either. lot of people asking wtf around here, but way it goes. better to be prepared, and i had my stuff together if needed.

wife had a huntington's walk in nj canceled. no place to hide out here.

i love it there, but parking is tough, so i now go to new rochelle when i fish the long island sound boats, they have parking.

getting a lot of heat from my daughter who wanted to go out tonight and frankly, its just a rainy evening here...though most of the time her friends go to asbury which is probably not the place to be at 2 am closing a bar with a coastal cranking.....

city island has a coastal vibe, with fishing boats and sea food joints. i sometimes go out on fishing boats there. it is close to orchard beach, which is one of the "killing fields" in north america, where lots of bodies have been found, though it differs in that most of them appear to be mob hits as opposed to serial killings in places like the texas killing fields or gilgo beach. one famous incident had two cops witness a couple guys walk out of the woods covered in blood, but did not think this was of any importance. there was, of course, a body found......

heard a radio crew at midland this morning, expecting the worst....

1010 wins just said there will be a lull before it gets cranking again tonight

yeah. like me. that year i just turned 34. didn't have kids yet and had been married a year. just got tenure, the golden handcuffs. hairstyle for me was already moot, as i was already in the chekov combover mode.....note, koenig was hired for star trek because they wanted a beatles/monkees look to appeal to younger viewers......

it will be a week before things settle down out there. fishing is done for the year; you get a storm like this in the fall, the fish skedaddle offshore. might bring the striped bass in early though.

i'm worried about my daughter coming from orlando thursday; they were saying last night the storm will be cranking already. normally i don't follow much this time of year, but damn....

meh. the damage is done for anglers and a storm like this, early in the season is curtains for us. had two good days of offshore weather. thanks, regulators, for shutting porgy season down til sept 1st. black sea bass season finally opens, but it won't matter at all, as they will head offshore after this. its almost like they don't want us to catch fish.....fluke closes the 25th here, again, won't matter, no one will be able to fish. i know its supposed to be warmer and snowless this winter for us, but this morning i have my lined pants and flannel shirt on for my walk....feels like november weather.

weeds in the garden over 6 feet tall....

"and the mornin sun is shinin like a red rubber ball..." ah, the 60s.....i guess they were on acid when they wrote the song....

we had it a few summers back, worse....i didn't leave the house for days.

hope it clears before the entire world sees messi and yamal struggling to breathe......of course messi doesn't do much running anyway.....

my neighbors too....college graduation. they got most of the day in though, and the storm was short. but it blew the tents all over.

this sucks. my garden is struggling a bit with the cold following the brutal heat. as for saltwater fishing. forget it. water is frigid even when you can manage a rare calm day. today for my walk i broke out the lined hiking pants again.

its just that the big events were separated by a month; if we'd had some more 3-6 deals in between it would have seemed like a blockbuster. but i'd take this any time. i like a real winter, and a real spring...today does not feel like spring, and neither does 80 degrees, but we take it as it comes. what warmth we have had hasn't lasted long enough to warm the bays and rivers much, and now we are getting that nasty cold rain...and that wind the other night i could do without.

in all my years its been rare for great winters back to back....94? followed by a ratter. 96? 5 years of ratters.....2001? followed by a ratter....sometimes like 2006 or 16 you get a ku in an otherwise dismal year....2021...years of crumbs until now....

wait til we hit low 70's next winter in the el nino that's coming; better keep this past winter in mind, cause we are almost sure to get a ratter next year with warmth.

i'm still wearing flannels....but what a gorgeous site on the navesink river today, watching from the hospital visiting a friend....in the 80's we would have been out on that river catching winter flounder. by the bucket load. now you can keep two, if you can find any. which you can't.

i left one snow shovel out. put the rest in storage. much as i love the snow, this is the best kind of weather to have. 65-70 is the sweet spot. warmer, i get uncomfortable.

they were lame. honestly. and one was a car topper. i did get an early dismissal and snow day out of them though.

big snow storms rarely produce more than 10 inches in march in nyc. source; mitchell volk. so a big storm for us in march is well, anything over a few inches. sometimes, i've seen a few inches accumulate on grass and cartops, but not on the street, like in march 2013.

we can hope....april showers and all....we can use the rain though.