March 2025

[Stormlover74]

45 minutes ago, MorristownWx said:

Beautiful weather this week and some much needed rain Sunday night - as good as it gets!

Yeah it would be nice to salvage Sunday since it will be warm 

[Brian5671]

26 minutes ago, MorristownWx said:

Somewhere MJO is crying into a pillow

At least we are done with silly snowmaps that never verify

[LibertyBell]

42 minutes ago, MorristownWx said:

Somewhere MJO is crying into a pillow

the index?

[Pellice]

22 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

It makes it harder to breathe

Not for me.  Interesting that there is such variability in human physiology.  I spend winters - and particularly this winter - with a very dry and stuffed up and sometimes burning nose.  Humidity clears that right up, and humidity plus heat equals my easiest breathing.  No way I could stand a desert climate except for visits. Bring on the rainforest! (But I think I am in the minority).

[MJO812]

This March has been horrible. Not even a flake.

[jm1220]

23 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

This March has been horrible. Not even a flake.

Time to put the wretched last 3 months behind us. 

[bluewave]

March has become too warm for much snow around NYC during the 2020s.

 

 

Monthly Total Snowfall for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

Mean	0.1	0.1
2025	0.0	0.0
2024	T	T
2023	0.1	0.1
2022	0.4	0.4
2021	T	T
2020	T	T

[Sundog]

36 degrees here right now, feels good honestly lol

 

[Stormlover74]

15 hours ago, uofmiami said:

Let's hope the model doesn't lower QPF as we approach the event.

Bump

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, Pellice said:

Not for me.  Interesting that there is such variability in human physiology.  I spend winters - and particularly this winter - with a very dry and stuffed up and sometimes burning nose.  Humidity clears that right up, and humidity plus heat equals my easiest breathing.  No way I could stand a desert climate except for visits. Bring on the rainforest! (But I think I am in the minority).

Humidity in the cold season is VERY different from humidity in the warm season.

Humidity with temperatures below freezing is great, I love that too.

However once you get to around 70 and higher high humidity makes mold spores multiply quickly and causes bad air quality issues and high levels of air pollution, especially since it traps car exhaust closer to the surface.

 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Stormlover74 said:

Bump

Today is a wonderful sunny day, I have high hopes for the eclipse tonight.

We'll worry about Sunday when that day comes.

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Sundog said:

36 degrees here right now, feels good honestly lol

 

The sun feels really awesome too!

 

[LibertyBell]

3 hours ago, Pellice said:

Not for me.  Interesting that there is such variability in human physiology.  I spend winters - and particularly this winter - with a very dry and stuffed up and sometimes burning nose.  Humidity clears that right up, and humidity plus heat equals my easiest breathing.  No way I could stand a desert climate except for visits. Bring on the rainforest! (But I think I am in the minority).

Rainforests are much better for biodiversity, the problem with that for us is that if the earth becomes more like that in the future, we're going to see a lot more microbial diseases and pandemics.  Mosquitoes that carry malaria, dengue fever and other such infections are just an example.  We'll also have a lot more worm infections, in nations that have tropical rain forests, the parasitic worm infection rate is as high as around 1 out of every 3 people (especially if they walk barefoot.)

I love tropical rain forests too-- but to visit only.  I've noticed I get very sick if I'm there more than 2 weeks.  The water isn't all that good either.

 

[Sundog]

6 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

The sun feels really awesome too!

 

The Sun is already a beast this time of year. Unless it's windy and cloudy even a high of 40 feels good in full Sun. 

[LibertyBell]

3 minutes ago, Sundog said:

The Sun is already a beast this time of year. Unless it's windy and cloudy even a high of 40 feels good in full Sun. 

Yeah the birds love it too, they've been singing like crazy this morning!

[snowman19]

11 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Yeah the birds love it too, they've been singing like crazy this morning!

The peepers are already out again at night. A sure sign spring has arrived

[LibertyBell]

14 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

The peepers are already out again at night. A sure sign spring has arrived

The weather flipped a switch in the last week of February; besides that brief 2 day bout of cold, we've been above normal ever since.  That's probably why bulbs are sprouting and peepers are out.  I've even seen flying insects get busy outside.  The birds must be having a feast lol.

 

[Brian5671]

4 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

The weather flipped a switch in the last week of February; besides that brief 2 day bout of cold, we've been above normal ever since.  That's probably why bulbs are sprouting and peepers are out.  I've even seen flying insects get busy outside.  The birds must be having a feast lol.

 

Things should really start to green up with next week's torch

[LibertyBell]

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

Things should really start to green up with next week's torch

I heard someone say 80 the other day, but that seems doubtful.  Low 70s maybe?

 

[Brian5671]

Just now, LibertyBell said:

I heard someone say 80 the other day, but that seems doubtful.  Low 70s maybe?

 

We hit 80 back in March 2012 but that was a torch nationwide with no snowcover anywhere.     I'd say low 70's next week tops.  

[IrishRob17]

39 minutes ago, Sundog said:

The Sun is already a beast this time of year. Unless it's windy and cloudy even a high of 40 feels good in full Sun. 

Agreed. Today it's equivalent to 9/30

[snowman19]

21 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

We hit 80 back in March 2012 but that was a torch nationwide with no snowcover anywhere.     I'd say low 70's next week tops.  

We were close to 90 degrees back in March, 2012. It was right after St. Patrick’s Day. It was the earliest in the year I can ever remember having to turn my A/C on

[Brian5671]

2 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

We were close to 90 degrees back in March, 2012. It was right after St. Patrick’s Day. It was the earliest in the year I can ever remember having to turn my A/C on

yeah was at least 80 here-I remember having a pizza dinner on our deck that night lol.   

[LibertyBell]

2 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

We were close to 90 degrees back in March, 2012. It was right after St. Patrick’s Day. It was the earliest in the year I can ever remember having to turn my A/C on

It reminds me of March 1990, people were wearing bermuda shorts on spring break..... on Long Island! We were in the mid and upper 80s for three days and this was before the middle of the month, I think we hit 85, 86 and 88 on consecutive days.

 

[Cfa]

Canceled my RadarScope subscription until we get weather, and with Long Island being the most boring part of the region outside of tropical events, it’ll be quite awhile.

2012 was the best spring+summer combination that I can recall, but this is the first March in a while that hasn’t sucked.

[LibertyBell]

2 minutes ago, bluewave said:

The 850 mb temperature forecast for next week would support 80°. But the warmest 850 mb temperatures peak at night. Plus we have clouds and onshore flow at the time of the peak. But a day before the 850s peak and front arrives could be a 70-75° day for the usual warm spots with enough sun. 
 

 

Any chance of a downslope wind on any of those days to get JFK to heat up, Chris? Doesn't that usually happen on the day of the frontal passage?

 

[LibertyBell]

2 minutes ago, Cfa said:

Canceled my RadarScope subscription until we get weather, and with Long Island being the most boring part of the region outside of tropical events, it’ll be quite awhile.

2012 was the best spring+summer combination that I can recall, but this is the first March in a while that hasn’t sucked.

I think 2010 was even better for spring+summer+fall.... hell make it best winter+spring+summer+fall+winter again lol

 

[TheClimateChanger]

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

We hit 80 back in March 2012 but that was a torch nationwide with no snowcover anywhere.     I'd say low 70's next week tops.  

It's a nationwide torch right now. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the warmest first 12 days of March on record nationwide. There's been record warmth all over the place.

[Brian5671]

3 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

It's a nationwide torch right now. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the warmest first 12 days of March on record nationwide. There's been record warmth all over the place.

Let's hope we don't turn colder 2nd half like last year-we had a big tease and then nasty and cold for 3 weeks once we got to 3/15 or so.

[TheClimateChanger]

On 3/11/2025 at 8:25 AM, bluewave said:

It was our driest winter since 21-22 across the area.

 

Wow. The nationwide average PDSI is -3.79, as of the end of February. 16th lowest on record.