March 31st - Potential Wintry Precip (formerly the March Torch Thread)

[NorEaster27]

its warm outside

[tornadojay]

72 here with a dew point of 60! It feels like summer. It's not just warm, it's kinda humid too.. amazing.

[MJO812]

62 right now

[pazzo83]

SSTs are skyrocketing today. Buoy just beyond NY Harbor has jumped from 46F to 49F in the past few hours.

[NorEaster27]

_{64/55 southern queens}

[TheTrials]

is there a webcam of central park?

[pazzo83]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:03 PM, TheTrials said:

is there a webcam of central park?

Preferably of one of the greens...

[Snow_Miser]

75 Degrees in C NJ at 1:30... could we reach 80?

[TheTrials]

Even sne posters talking about leaf out.

[tornadojay]

unbelievable.. even well to our north in northern new england, it's even warmer... even mount washington is 46 degrees right now.

[tornadojay]

can someone tell me how Portsmouth, NH is 73 degrees with an easterly wind at 16 mph.. Is that humanly possible? There is an Atlantic Ocean, right?

[TheTrials]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:50 PM, tornadojay said:

can someone tell me how Portsmouth, NH is 73 degrees with an easterly wind at 16 mph.. Is that humanly possible. There is an Atlantic Ocean, right?

soon it will be called Carribean north.

[Analog96]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:50 PM, tornadojay said:

can someone tell me how Portsmouth, NH is 73 degrees with an easterly wind at 16 mph.. Is that humanly possible. There is an Atlantic Ocean, right?

Did the wind just flip to East a few minutes before that ob possibly?

[pazzo83]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:50 PM, tornadojay said:

can someone tell me how Portsmouth, NH is 73 degrees with an easterly wind at 16 mph.. Is that humanly possible. There is an Atlantic Ocean, right?

A couple of the stations just inland from there are rapidly approaching 80F. How in the hell...

[SnoSki14]

And it's going to get even hotter this week, I'm thinking widespread 80s this Thursday.

[tornadojay]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:52 PM, Analog96 said:

Did the wind just flip to East a few minutes before that ob possibly?

wind has been east since like 10:30 this morning.. and the temp has been 73 since that time.. LOL.

[tornadojay]

Newark is 75, which is what I'm sitting at right now as well..

[Analog96]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:54 PM, tornadojay said:

wind has been east since like 10:30 this morning.. and the temp has been 73 since that time.. LOL.

THAT is stramge!

[earthlight]

cherry blossoms are out, red buds on the trees too. 77.

[ag3]

2pm temps:

EWR: 75 (high of the day)

NYC: 73 (high of the day)

LGA: 69 (high of 72)

BDR: 67 (high of the day)

JFK: 62 (high of 63)

HPN: 72 (high of the day)

[pazzo83]

  On 3/19/2012 at 6:01 PM, ag3 said:

2pm temps:

EWR: 75

NYC: 73

LGA: 69

JFK: 62

Pretty impressive that JFK is holding in the 60s with a due south wind at 15mph.

[Stormlover74]

Sussex is the warm spot at 76 at the moment.

  On 3/19/2012 at 6:01 PM, ag3 said:

2pm temps:

EWR: 75 (high of the day)

NYC: 73 (high of the day)

LGA: 69 (high of 72)

BDR: 67 (high of the day)

JFK: 62 (high of 63)

[tornadojay]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:58 PM, Analog96 said:

THAT is stramge!

ok, just dropped to 66 there.. that's a bit more like it

[Cfa]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:59 PM, earthlight said:

cherry blossoms are out, red buds on the trees too. 77.

Same here, except it's 66.

[SnoSki14]

Full leaf out happening this week, some insane stuff this early in the season.

[tornadojay]

huh?? is this right?

KBNL 191755Z AUTO 23005KT 10SM CLR 28/14 A3018 RMK AO2=

The weather observed at BROOKHAVEN LAB, NY (KBNL) at 12:55 PM EST was:

The skies were clear.

Temperature: 82F ( 28C) Dewpoint: 57F ( 14C) Relative Humidity: 42%

Winds from the SW (230 degs) at 6 mph.

Altimeter:30.18 inches of mercury.

The prevailing visibility was 10 miles.

[stormwarn]

  On 3/19/2012 at 5:59 PM, earthlight said:

cherry blossoms are out, red buds on the trees too. 77.

Yeap, and the ground is really dry. BAD news this early and people haven't even filled their pools yet.

[NorEaster27]

  On 3/19/2012 at 6:13 PM, stormwarn said:

Yeap, and the ground is really dry. BAD news this early and people haven't even filled their pools yet.

bad?

[Snowlover11]

76! Wow thought it was only going to be 70 today, full of win here

[LocoAko]

Have reached 77 here in New Brunswick. We'll come close to 80F before all is said and done.