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How's spring going out on the island?  Finally this week it has looked like it here, took forever.

 

Its come to life a little bit...green up actually only a couple days behind schedule...looks good.

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Its come to life a little bit...green up actually only a couple days behind schedule...looks good.

Despite various others complaining of the contrary elsewhere, I also find that things are only a few days behind schedule here in Jersey.  I think that the last several early Springs (2010 and 2012 in particular) and a need to "have winter die" from many who got tired of cold and gray and brown, altered their perceptions on "normal".

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I specifically remember when Willa Cather penned Paul's Case circa 1905 or thereabouts...she made the weather conditions central to the element of setting...when the title character Paul was in Pittsburgh...a town he held nothing but contempt for because he believed it to be a town for the rabble and working class...Cather made dreary rain the prevailing wx condition....but when Paul moved on to NYC....Cather had it snow continuously there...to make the setting a far more pristine one...in direct contravention to what she had painted for Pittsburgh.  And, of course, Paul felt NYC was the center of the Universe...where the gentry & upper classes enjoyed all that the earth had to offer...

William, 

Brings to mind the aerial scene of large and gentle snowflakes falling on NYC in the movie "The lemon drop Kid" with the award winning Silver Bells playing to a conclusion.

Rich

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Suddenly I'm "controlling this whole sub forum" or something to that effect. It's all good.

i didn't realize you can change your screen name - anyways early next week NYC will take a run at 90 degrees - but cloud cover and wind direction will determine if it reaches 90

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i didn't realize you can change your screen name - anyways early next week NYC will take a run at 90 degrees - but cloud cover and wind direction will determine if it reaches 90

Me on LI during the heat push my highest temp will be 70 degrees. Most times when were forecasted to be warmest on X day the seabreeze kicks in early and getting even close to the forecasted high is next to impossible

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Me on LI during the heat push my highest temp will be 70 degrees. Most times when were forecasted to be warmest on X day the seabreeze kicks in early and getting even close to the forecasted high is next to impossible

I think maybe on one or two days we can make it to the lower 70s, but staying in the 60s wouldn't be surprising either. The south wind will only allow us to warm up so much.

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No, and to be fair I never agreed to the bet. I don't see the point on betting money on weather lol. Now if he said the loser wouldn't post for a week I would have been all over that.

During the night of the mid December slop storm this winter, Sferic bet me a dinner that Nassau County wouldn't warm up above freezing, because of how temps all that day were in the mid 20s everywhere. We ended up warming to near 50 when the wind switched direction, and the snow and ice we had was gone in 2 hours.

 

He's probably glad I didn't take him up on it. :lol:

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I was surprised to see the models trend much wetter overnight and follow the hrrr. The Nam and gfs were showing next to nothing yesterday.

The NWS all day yesterday expressed caution with regards to the forecast. Both Mt. Holly and Upton stated that the HRRR and other short term models were handling the situation much better than the globals. Even the NAM was horrific which initialized at 12z and 18z completely dry. This should be no big surprise.

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Stebo wasnt exactly wrong. If your talking hi-res short range models the HRRR is a VERY good model. Im almost certain he also took into account the globals as well. Either way the HRRR is a great model but is not the best

It's (HRRR) been deadly within 12-24 hrs though going back to the start of winter.

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