JerseyWx Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 7 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said: "In recent months and years, you’ve likely noticed some changes to the Intellicast site as we’ve incorporated the Weather Underground personal weather station network" Didn't see any explanation in there as to why the WU PWS network has become next to unusable recently. Anyone got a new link? I think I found what I was looking for but the navigation was horrible (and excessive) and can't bookmark anything but the starting page. It's interesting because when WU was incorporated on Intellicast things were fine. Now I have trouble even loading the site on all my devices, and some features, such as the hourly forecast, have not even been working. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Over/under on the number of frozen car doors in the tri/state this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Just now, IrishRob17 said: Over/under on the number of frozen car doors in the tri/state this morning? I had 4 frozen car doors, a storm door, and my mailbox was a solid brick of ice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 10 minutes ago, BxEngine said: I had 4 frozen car doors, a storm door, and my mailbox was a solid brick of ice. I’ve got the US Olympic Luge team coming by later this morning to have practice on my driveway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCweatherNOW Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 8 hours ago, JerseyWx said: It's interesting because when WU was incorporated on Intellicast things were fine. Now I have trouble even loading the site on all my devices, and some features, such as the hourly forecast, have not even been working. Weather channel owns all of them, that explains it all that company is worth nothing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 3 hours ago, IrishRob17 said: I’ve got the US Olympic Luge team coming by later this morning to have practice on my driveway. My garage door was frozen to the ground this morning...thats a first for me. Almost ripped the damn thing right off the garage ceiling. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, BxEngine said: My garage door was frozen to the ground this morning...thats a first for me. Almost ripped the damn thing right off the garage ceiling. Yeah, there’s no way you’re strong enough to do that. No way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 7 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: Yeah, there’s no way you’re strong enough to do that. No way. The Olympic team stopped by to assist while on their way to your place. Bx E. moderated them. As always ..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherpruf Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Dog just slid across the yard chasing a squirrel. Lots of standing water frozen solid in the yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-LI Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Does anyone know a website where I can find model runs for past storms? Dating back as much as possible. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Claus Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Hey just FYI it's cold as s***. Edit: wait we can curse here? Whoops lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 On 1/20/2019 at 11:30 PM, NorthShoreWx said: "In recent months and years, you’ve likely noticed some changes to the Intellicast site as we’ve incorporated the Weather Underground personal weather station network" Didn't see any explanation in there as to why the WU PWS network has become next to unusable recently. Anyone got a new link? I think I found what I was looking for but the navigation was horrible (and excessive) and can't bookmark anything but the starting page. They've been making some changes to the site, which they say will make it "better" but I think it's only better for their bottom line. I talked to a third party developer of a program that accesses data (Weather1) from the site and downloads it and organizes it into spreadsheets and graphs and he said that the changes they made are to shut out third party developers unless they pay an exorbitant fee every month. Before the weather channel owned WU, they only had to pay a one time fee for unlimited access to data that they could download and organize as they wished. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NycStormChaser Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 23 hours ago, NYCweatherNOW said: Weather channel owns all of them, that explains it all that company is worth nothing How is it worth nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 59 minutes ago, NycStormChaser said: How is it worth nothing? see my post above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NycStormChaser Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 31 minutes ago, LibertyBell said: see my post above Have no idea how I missed that. Have to learn to have coffee before Interneting. That's really a shame. I'd imagine them getting rid of wunderground website over the years as well too which would suck. They already got rid of the blog section which I always enjoyed reading. I still think AccuWeather is a worse company though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 3 years ago today Jonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestHillWx Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 28 minutes ago, Snow88 said: 3 years ago today Jonas I remember it well. Just moved into Chester. Had a new puppy, a pregnant wife and 34" of snow to shovel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPcantmeasuresnow Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 We are now entering what is historically the best period in NYC for 6 plus inch snowfalls. There have been 193 six plus inch storms since 1870 occurring in the 5 month period between November 15th to April 13th. Seventy of them have occurred in the 30 day period between January 20th to February 18th. NYC 6+ inch Snows - 10 day periods 1..... Nov-11-Nov-20 4..... Nov-21-Nov-30 6..... Dec-01-Dec-10 13.... Dec-11-Dec-20 18.... Dec-21-Dec-30 12.... Dec-31-Jan-09 15.... Jan-10-Jan-19 20... Jan-20-Jan-29 25... Jan-30-Feb-08 25... Feb-09-Feb-18 16.... Feb-19-Feb-28 18.... Feb-29-Mar-10 11.... Mar-11-Mar-20 2..... Mar-21-Mar-30 6..... Mar-31-Apr-09 1..... Apr-10-Apr-19 193.. Nov-15-Apr-13 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 1 hour ago, ForestHillWx said: I remember it well. Just moved into Chester. Had a new puppy, a pregnant wife and 34" of snow to shovel. I think I saw a flake that day but it was hard to be sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 2 hours ago, ForestHillWx said: I remember it well. Just moved into Chester. Had a new puppy, a pregnant wife and 34" of snow to shovel. 42 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: I think I saw a flake that day but it was hard to be sure. Yes, I immediately felt sick to my stomach after reading that post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestHillWx Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 5 hours ago, IrishRob17 said: Yes, I immediately felt sick to my stomach after reading that post. I didn't realize that storm had such a cut off up north. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 22 minutes ago, ForestHillWx said: I didn't realize that storm had such a cut off up north. My bad. It’s your bad only if you were responsible for that cutoff. Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed your 34”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_other_guy Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Anybody else not all gloom and doom about this winter? Frankly, despite the lack of snow, I am enjoying the consistent cold and almost no extreme warmth that was featured in our last few winters. Other than the 2 weeks around the Holidays, most of this winter from Nov onward has been surprisingly seasonal or BN...something we haven’t seen in a long time. If I never save another 60 or 70 during winter months, I would be happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Just now, jfklganyc said: Anybody else not all gloom and doom about this winter? Frankly, despite the lack of snow, I am enjoying the consistent cold and almost no extreme warmth that was featured in our last few winters. Other than the 2 weeks around the Holidays, most of this winter from Nov onward has been surprisingly seasonal or BN...something we haven’t seen in a long time. If I never save another 60 or 70 during winter months, I would be happy! It’s like a 1980’s winter...cold at times but generally snowless.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnoSki14 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 1 hour ago, jfklganyc said: Anybody else not all gloom and doom about this winter? Frankly, despite the lack of snow, I am enjoying the consistent cold and almost no extreme warmth that was featured in our last few winters. Other than the 2 weeks around the Holidays, most of this winter from Nov onward has been surprisingly seasonal or BN...something we haven’t seen in a long time. If I never save another 60 or 70 during winter months, I would be happy! Do not feel the same way. I'll happily take a 2011/2012 warm winter if it won't snow. The last cold shot was miserable and it had nothing to show for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_other_guy Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 But that means you don’t enjoy winter correct ? I’m just thinking if you like cold and snow this winter Has been more consistently cold than recent winters. For instance, that miracle snowstorm last February… Book ended by 70° weather...I would trade that snowstorm for consistently cold February with chances of snow. The last few winters have featured snow that falls and quickly melts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPizz Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/20/2019 at 10:37 PM, ILoveWinter said: OT rules in the NFL are awful, game is basically decided on a coin toss. That about clinches my decision to not watch yet another Super Bowl with the Pats. One team that won the toss was victorious, the other lost. Rule is fine. Play defense, Rams did. Chiefs gave up 3 3rd and 10s in OT. Terrible D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPcantmeasuresnow Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 19 minutes ago, jfklganyc said: But that means you don’t enjoy winter correct ? I’m just thinking if you like cold and snow this winter Has been more consistently cold than recent winters. For instance, that miracle snowstorm last February… Book ended by 70° weather...I would trade that snowstorm for consistently cold February with chances of snow. The last few winters have featured snow that falls and quickly melts To me winters get their good grades through sustained snow cover. I need at least 60 days in the mid November through April 1 period with snow cover or the winter is a bust IMO. The last 2 winters I've gone over that, 67 days last year and 84 days the year before. This winter I'm at 9 days, that's a sh!tty winter, at least so far. One big storm that melts within the week would not help much, at least from my perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 1 minute ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said: To me winters get their good grades through sustained snow cover. I need at least 60 days in the mid November through April 1 period with snow cover or the winter is a bust IMO. The last 2 winters I've gone over that, 67 days last year and 84 days the year before. This winter I'm at 9 days, that's a sh!tty winter, at least so far. One big storm that melts within the week would not help much, at least from my perspective. Yeah, it’s a very interesting question. I am more a big snowstorm fan than an extended snow cover one. 15-16 was one of my favorite winters of this decade. The historic January snowstorm mattered much more to me than how long it stayed on the ground. 10-11 was probably the best of both worlds. Historic snowstorms and extended snow cover. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 3 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said: Do not feel the same way. I'll happily take a 2011/2012 warm winter if it won't snow. The last cold shot was miserable and it had nothing to show for it. There's always the option to quit whinging and take up one of the many hobbies that avail of cold weather. Off the top of my head, I know ice climbers, ice fishermen, ice yachters, skaters, photographers, ski resort employees, and ski resort patrons who have all benefited wonderfully from the winter weather of the sort that you might expect from the northern states in the middle of January. Together, all those relatively small interest groups amass a formidable collective. Further to all that, we need cold to snow. You'd never sign off on +10F for the rest of met. winter, as you know it would all but preclude the possibility of a big snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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