weatherpruf

heard something interesting today on a discussion about people in Mississippi back in the day making "snow ice cream" which means they must've have had some snow at times back when....

Another nice day with insects flying about in my yard.....grass and herbs still green. I guess this is what winters in the South are like....

i used to throw a line with a flounder rig off the the dead end streets in Sea Bright in the early 80's, and catch enough flounder on the incoming tide to feed the family. I'd use earthworms....even if you could catch something today, you probably wouldn't be allowed to fish there...

So how long did you teach lit? Ten years for me....

88, 89, 90, 91, 92......97,98, 99, 2000, that's 8 years of bum winters right there, even if 92 and 2000 had some late bonus stuff ( and 2000's big event was the 2000-01 winter ). You can throw in 80, 81, 84, 85, and 86, if you don't go in succession, and that's another 5 years of little snow. 13 years of not much to write home about. An incredible run. If I add in the 70's...you get the point. In fact, 93 and 95 had only one serious event each; without 94 and 96 the 90's are fairly putrid. Did not use a snowblower from 97-2000. It can and will happen again, and ultimately will be the default winter in these parts if scientists are correct.

trawlers actually do have restrictions these days, on mesh sizes as well as seasons and size limits. None of which helps much as the damage is done. went out in the late fall and could find nothing but horned dogfish from Rockaway point to the doughnut to the Shrewsbury Rocks. Thick. Can't keep them, as its a shark...I catch more fish in my local creek and bigger ones too, than you can catch in the bay these days.

terrifying storm. I was buying bait at a waterfront tackle shop near the Arthur Kill. I believe it was a derecho? Rare for around here.....

The storms in 14-15 were uniformly lame, as well....

We are in a snow drought no doubt. Hope its not a long term pattern. But I've seen that happen.

Actually that isn't unusual. For example, the 2/610 storm left me with about 3, but folks in Metuchen had more ( the difference between 3 and 6 in very noticeable )and as you went further south it kept going up. My wife just unearthed some photos we have from around the Camden aquarium when the kids were little, the day after the blizzard. Incredibly the aquarium was open and the streets were quite clear; you can see the mountains of snow all along the Delaware river....

You may be the only person in the tristate area who does.....I may like a good snowstorm, but digging out? that's not for me....was reading an article about "halfbacks" people who wanted to retire where there was no snow ( specifically ) and wound up in FL but the place is so hot for so many months they found that equally intolerable ( I can sympathize )so they go "halfway" back to their origin state ( usually the northeast or upper midwest ) to SC, NC, Ga, etc....four seasons with mild winters and very rare snow ( believe Atlanta might have more snow than us this year ). I gotta admit I'm not missing the snow much this year. It'll be back.

I'm way past it and looking at seed catalogs. I'd organize the tackle box but after 40 years, i don't wanna mess with tradition....saltwater fishing has gotten so bad I have rigs I'll never use again ( winter flounder, whiting, fluke ) due to the disappearance of the species or draconian regulations. A proposed 3 bluefish limit this year....a fish once so bountiful people didn't even want them.

There weren't many to speak of.....April 82, Feb 83, jan 87 and March 93....and none of them anywhere near the calibre of 96...83 came close though.

Wait till you string 4-5 in a row like this....

Had less than that really but it compacted so maybe not, but what was really frustrating were the folks here who told me I didn't know what I was talking about, that I was being a weenie, and it would come down hard eventually. As if I can't see what is outside my front door....

Says 11.5, so be it. Good by March standards. Goos any time really. Think we aren't seeing any 2 footers for awhile.

Just got in from Manhattan. Cold but not bitterly so. Ran into Janice Huff in the lower level at 30 Rock....was past her before I thought I should have asked her where all the snow went this year.....not sure she is an actual meteorologist or not.

Is there fishable ice?

No, we didn't get quite that much, but 10-11 does happen, not a lot, but the two footers in March are very rare. Areas to my south ( Monmouth ) and North got the bulk of the snow.

I remember a few years ago people screaming and yelling at me because I didn't think we would get a two foot blizzard in March. No less than Mitchell Volk chimed in to agree with me. We got 5-6 slushy inches of snow/sleet. Higher elevations got more. the same thing happened in 2018; higher elevations with big amounts, we had 3 inches. Not even the superstorm of 93 could get us to a foot....is it impossible? Nope. Is it likely? Nope. Is it likely this year? Nope.

The mode might be even more useful....what is the most common snowfall in an event, and what is the most common total for the winter....

But we still found ways in the past to snow at times with the positive NAO, correct? I do not remember insects flying around outside, ever, before recent years, in mid winter. And grass wasn't green like it is now. And we never got anywhere near 80 in midwinter. We'd still get piddly 2-4 events from time to time, and the higher elevations of course had more. We really started to see bland winters in the 90's with warmer temps, outside of some notable anomalies ( 94 and 96 ). Then something happened in the 2000's and we started getting monster storms. That could be over for awhile.

It is truly a depressing place, unless you enjoy chopping wood and snowmobiles. And moose. Now, moose are kinda cool...

Those summer tropical storms kill the fishing. I wish they would never happen. They don't even have to be that strong to throw up swells, which cause seasickness and for reasons I don't understand cause the fish to stop feeding, or move out to sea early. When we had a bay fishery it didn't matter but the bays are dead now.

There was one in 2005 as well, though not as big, perhaps that's the one....