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It was also one of the worst movies ever made. I know, my dad took me to see it when I was a kid. Don't even think you can find a copy today.

It's going to blow most of the week. Very depressing. Mariners can't catch a break this year. Anyone planning on going out in this has to be nuts.

Based on what i have seen over the years, for the most part, I don't expect a lot of snow in an El Nino year.

One or two, yes. but 86, 88, 89 I don't remember anything significant. You can count the decent storms.....2 in 1982, one in 1983, one in 1987....come to think of it, 79,80, and 81 were all lean as well. It really wasn't til late 93 that we began to see big snows again. Truthfully, if I never have to break out the snowblower again, I'm ok with that. It's just that winter weather still kinda sucks around here when it is a drizzly sulk, and it is still too cold to do anything else.

I hear ya.

Yes. They let the shark pull them around till it gets tired, then they release it. Not allowed to keep most sharks.

Never mind that; there are some pretty big sharks feeding on those blues and bass. There are guys who kayak fish for sharks right off Coney Island. I've seen big threshers breach there myself.

Anything you could keep? We won't go out at our age and crank til we die just to release everything. FTW, first they are too small to keep and now they are too big. We are close to just having it shut down again like the 80s. i do have a bonus tag.

I didn't see any bunkers in the Sound but the fish are feeding on peanut bunker; the big blues are eating the porgies, that's why they are there and not in Raritan. I don't know what the wind will be but a southwest with an outgoing would be less rough, and you'd have wind with the tide. There are plenty of reports of stripers off the coast and heading north; Sandy Hook is holding some fish. Trying to get out but the porgy fishing is so good don't wanna leave it for stripers, when you have to release most of them.....this has been some great fall weather for boating and fishing after a terrible Sept. Maybe we'll get a little of November in as well. Got out yesterday and had so many fish I was giving them away to others by 1 pm. Once again, 45 mins from NJ to City Island in them morning, 3 hours to get home, even though we got in early. But what a gorgeous afternoon! Even the Bronx was looking wonderful with the foliage, and the best is yet to come.

Any day that warm this time of year is going to have strong southwest winds with it.

I went out today out of City Island. Was cold so I plunked down 30 bucks at the tackle shop for a 5 dollar pair of gloves when I have about 200 in my closet, which I forgot. Sank the boat with porgies, and by noon I was shedding jackets and sweating bullets. The Sound has been hot this year, and it only takes about 45 mins to get there from NJ, however the ride home is 3 hours no matter how you slice it. Boats out of Point Pleasant and Belmar have been doing well at the edge of the Mud Hole, but you better pick a nice day ( about 15 miles out due east ). Don't bottom fish out of Atlantic Highlands, it has been terrible. Stripped clean by draggers and pot fishermen. There is one boat targeting stripers though, and doing well. My advice is play hookey and go Wed or Thursday. Always crappy weather on weekends....you needed sun glasses and sunscreen out there today. A gorgeous day, even the Bronx looked lovely.

I worked there,I'm telling you what I saw. And I worked in more than one district. Also, employees were prone to sue when they slipped as well. Every walkway has to be cleaned. Or you are liable. Case closed.

We got some flurries here. Didn't snow much the rest of the season. Was probably the worst until last winter came along.

We have 3 days of bad marine conditions coming up which will be enough to impact migratory fisheries. For mariners it is not a quiet time.

Because one kid slipping on the school sidewalk and getting hurt will cost the school district a lot of money. I worked in schools for 31 years; our most common response to lawyers was " how much?"

I was teaching then. Brutal.

My snowblower has a pokeweed bush growing out of it.....and i don't expect to have to remove it this year. If people in the general public could actually read, they'd see that experts are calling for more snow in our area, as opposed to last year; that's a very low bar that is almost sure to be met. In general they don't say we should have a lot of snow and in fact, seem to be indicating below average, which has been my lifetime experience during most El Ninos. Somewhat below average would be a lot more snow to folks in the area, who have now had two years of little snow and will have forgotten totally how to drive in it or how much milk or eggs to buy.....( hint, you don't need to buy that much ).

The fishing industry ( sport fishing ) has taken a huge hit as well. even nicer days involved an uncomfortable swell, and fishing has sucked to boot ( but that is for other reasons ). LI sound has been a little better with sheltered waters and better fishing, but people still don't come down in a deluge.

Went out to sea yesterday....fished the middle between the Rockaways and Sandy Hook, used to call it the Mud Buoy. Weather was nice but there are still swells out there and it was all I could do to keep from hurling. Fishing, as it has been for years now, was equally horrible. All the fish are in LI Sound now, while I watched draggers cleaning out what's left over here. The ocean has not been flat calm in weeks ( swells are not flat calm ). Where is this photo from? We are thinking of running Hell Gate and heading into the Sound next time. Can't be any worse, and no swells.....

My poor son has to drive into the Bronx fromNJ tomorrow; it took him 2 hours last week. Tuesday it took me over 2 hours to get from NJ to Manhattan. And then he has to go from Trenton to Queens by train tuesday.

It's pretty quiet here right now, thank goodness, but the backyard is a pond. I'm a little puzzled though, as to why people would be disappointed that we didn't have a biblical flood. I can sort of understand the allure of big snows; snow transforms the landscape and could look amazing. But too much rain offers nothing; already we are stuck in the house like it's winter when many of us would rather be fishing or hiking or taking in a live ballgame or anything other than sitting in the house, which is what many of us will be doing until April once mid Oct rolls around. We've lost a lot of the remaining nice weather except for a couple days during the week when a lot of folks are chained to a desk. In short, this weather absolutely sucks, and if I'm getting this right, doesn't look to improve much soon.....

Well I'm more of a soccer fan, but I think it's a good day to start packing up the summer clothes. And watching fishing videos online.....

It was very light at Menlo early.. I was able to do most of my walk outside. By 10 am it was raining steady and that wind, while not gale force here, has got to be horrendous offshore.

Same. Thank God I had a rental on Messalonskee in Maine this summer and the fishing was top notch. Didn't need a boat.But even the last trip there it poured like a tropical storm, week before Labor Day. Cold and wet and horrible fishing. had to cut the trip short because my daughter was in the ER; 7 hour drive. Never figured out what was wrong with her, they think it was a kidney stone.

Heh...the race. The surf will still be quite hazardous. It is already.