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SpectroBoy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 9:46:02 AM  
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downstairs [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 10:38:54 AM  
For the first time ever (well, since the record-keeping began in 1869)

Yeah, exactly.  I remember the weird winter of 1542 and y'all want to just forget it.
 
Mangoose [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 11:06:41 AM  
It has always been my understanding that NYC, LI, etc. are all surrounded by water. If the water gets cold, snow comes in. If it doesn't, the warmer vapor goes up and helps turn incoming storms to mush or out right rain. So, along with area temperatures there is that contributing factor.
 
damageddude [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 11:58:21 AM  

Mangoose: It has always been my understanding that NYC, LI, etc. are all surrounded by water. If the water gets cold, snow comes in. If it doesn't, the warmer vapor goes up and helps turn incoming storms to mush or out right rain. So, along with area temperatures there is that contributing factor.


Not quite right. While the ocean does help keep air temperatures up the ocean doesnt freeze. Occassionaly the rivers and bays do freeze but that only happens when the air temps are really frigid but their water temperatures have nothing to do with whether we get snow or rain. If cold enough air is in place we get snow. If the air temperatures are close to freezing the higher water temperarures may turn potential snow into rain near the ocean.

This year though, until last week and even that was limited, even areas not near the ocean in the NYC area have not received measurable snow. Almost every day this winter has had high temperatures above the normal high of around 40.
 
justanotherfarkinfarker
2023-01-30 12:09:32 PM  

damageddude: the ocean doesnt freeze


You might want to double check that statement. Even with global warming it's still freezing in the north. They have ice breakers for a reason. Hell I've seen the ocean freeze off New England.
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 12:11:43 PM  
But it snowed extra in Bumfark, Iowa so climate change doesn't exist or something I'm sure people in Bumfark, Iowa believe.
 
grumpfuff
2023-01-30 12:19:15 PM  
I've heard quite a few people joke that the NYC metro area has had milder winters lately because Jack Frost went south for the winter.
 
Iworkformsn
2023-01-30 12:19:54 PM  
That's a lot of words for "it hasn't snowed yet... Which is odd and concerning"
 
stuhayes2010
2023-01-30 12:21:28 PM  
My older West Virginia family members (insert standard Fark hillbilly joke here) told me that the ground would be covered in snow from November until early March.  That does not happen anymore.
 
wxboy
2023-01-30 12:22:55 PM  

justanotherfarkinfarker: damageddude: the ocean doesnt freeze

You might want to double check that statement. Even with global warming it's still freezing in the north. They have ice breakers for a reason. Hell I've seen the ocean freeze off New England.


But not around NYC.

https://nsidc.org/news-analyses/news-stories/arctic-sea-ice-maximum-extent-2022
 
cyberspacedout
2023-01-30 12:23:28 PM  
Do you really think we came there to read news about nothing?
 
Super Chronic
2023-01-30 12:23:41 PM  
We've had several recent winters where January and February were pretty mild (though I guess not this mild), and then March absolutely kicked our asses.
 
MsStatement
2023-01-30 12:26:49 PM  
Here is a good explainer as to why Northern hemisphere winters are changing, and how forecasting has become more difficult as a result. https://www.nbcboston.com/weather/mass-winter-forecast/2909865/
 
Super Chronic
2023-01-30 12:27:25 PM  
For the first time ever (well, since the record-keeping began in 1869), Central Park has not seen measurable snow prior to Jan. 30 of a winter season.

We did have snow in Hudson Yards on Wednesday 1/25. Not sure what's "measurable" but it appeared to be coming down pretty solidly for about an hour or so before turning to rain. Nasty day all around.
 
grumpfuff
2023-01-30 12:29:00 PM  

Iworkformsn: That's a lot of words for "it hasn't snowed yet... Which is odd and concerning"


It is concerning for people who have lived here awhile. The concerning part is that it's not odd anymore.
 
groppet
2023-01-30 12:31:37 PM  
Here in the DC area we have gone about a year with no snow accumulation, we have had flurries but nothing has stuck. Today is supposed to be in the high 50s and it wont get cold til this weekend.
 
Teddy Brosevelt
2023-01-30 12:31:40 PM  
i wonder why NYC isnt getting any snow...

https://www.silicamag.com/dispatch/new-york-subtropical
 
12349876
2023-01-30 12:33:23 PM  

Super Chronic: For the first time ever (well, since the record-keeping began in 1869), Central Park has not seen measurable snow prior to Jan. 30 of a winter season.

We did have snow in Hudson Yards on Wednesday 1/25. Not sure what's "measurable" but it appeared to be coming down pretty solidly for about an hour or so before turning to rain. Nasty day all around.


Well if it doesn't stick it doesn't get measured. I'm not close to NYC but here there's been plenty of snow with the air temperature at the ground well above 32.
 
kroxeldiphibic
2023-01-30 12:34:00 PM  
Good for the working class.  Cheaper heating and electricity costs for them.
 
Denjiro
2023-01-30 12:34:58 PM  
It continues to be a rainy, mostly mild winter here west of Pittsburgh. The biggest snow we've had was the six or so inches we had back in the first half of November. Since then we've had around four snow falls of 1 to 3 inches, and usually with rain either immediately before or after. We did have the day with a -2 low just before Christmas, which sucked as we also lost power for around 18 hours that day.
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 12:35:40 PM  
I remember the big snow storm of 1977. Or was it 1978?  School was closed for almost a week.

/ ex Long Islander
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-01-30 12:41:08 PM  
For the first time ever (well, since the record-keeping began in 1869)

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nytmare
2023-01-30 12:43:25 PM  
This is exactly what that mysterious fortune-teller all-brown woolly-bear caterpillar warned us about back in the fall.
 
Super Chronic
2023-01-30 12:49:34 PM  

12349876: Super Chronic: For the first time ever (well, since the record-keeping began in 1869), Central Park has not seen measurable snow prior to Jan. 30 of a winter season.

We did have snow in Hudson Yards on Wednesday 1/25. Not sure what's "measurable" but it appeared to be coming down pretty solidly for about an hour or so before turning to rain. Nasty day all around.

Well if it doesn't stick it doesn't get measured. I'm not close to NYC but here there's been plenty of snow with the air temperature at the ground well above 32.


Makes sense. I watched it coming down moving horizontally from a high floor. Not sure what happened to it after it hit the ground.
 
alitaki
2023-01-30 12:49:51 PM  
5 year old me is crying about the lack of snow.

25 year old me is upset the slopes aren't as good as they used to be.

45 year old me is kinda glad he hasn't had to shovel anything yet this winter.
 
Perrybucsdad
2023-01-30 12:50:44 PM  
Typical New Yorker syndrome... they think the world revolves around them so anything for a new story.
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 12:50:50 PM  
Just wait until global warming causes the cockroaches to grow to the size of miniature horses.
 
Subtonic
2023-01-30 12:51:54 PM  

The Irresponsible Captain: But it snowed extra in Bumfark, Iowa so climate change doesn't exist or something I'm sure people in Bumfark, Iowa believe.


Yeah, but they have a great high school football team. Go Bumfarkers!
 
tommyl66
2023-01-30 12:54:43 PM  
The longer we go without a "good" snow storm the more I can't help being reminded of the 2014-2015 winter here in the Boston suburbs. Almost no snow to think of right up until Super Bowl weekend, then we basically had the snowiest winter ever in just February and March. The kids are wondering when we'll get enough snow to use the sleds, but I don't mind not having to shovel all the rain we're getting instead.
 
Perrybucsdad
2023-01-30 12:57:06 PM  

CarnySaur: Just wait until global warming causes the cockroaches to grow to the size of miniature horses.


That already happened back the the 1970s
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 1:01:16 PM  

alitaki: 45 year old me is kinda glad he hasn't had to shovel anything yet this winter.


the bad thing about having a heart attack?  Is having one.

The good thing is, I have doctor's orders not to shovel snow.

I don't miss it. Not one tiny bit.
 
groppet
2023-01-30 1:10:04 PM  

alitaki: 5 year old me is crying about the lack of snow.

25 year old me is upset the slopes aren't as good as they used to be.

45 year old me is kinda glad he hasn't had to shovel anything yet this winter.


Kinda the same way. I stopped liking snow when we were not getting snow days anymore. I knew we would not get much snow this year because I "borrowed" a 20 lbs bag of salt from work, they left two huge pallets of it on my dock for a week so they had to pay the storage tax. :)
 
BunchaRubes
2023-01-30 1:22:55 PM  

groppet: alitaki: 5 year old me is crying about the lack of snow.

25 year old me is upset the slopes aren't as good as they used to be.

45 year old me is kinda glad he hasn't had to shovel anything yet this winter.

Kinda the same way. I stopped liking snow when we were not getting snow days anymore. I knew we would not get much snow this year because I "borrowed" a 20 lbs bag of salt from work, they left two huge pallets of it on my dock for a week so they had to pay the storage tax. :)


That's a funny way to say "I am a scumbag thief"
 
stuffy
2023-01-30 1:23:03 PM  
Ever the attention whore. New York thinks doing nothing is news worthy.
 
chitownmike
2023-01-30 2:31:23 PM  
In a city driven to continuously raise -- or, more accurately, in this case (and maybe other cases) lower -- the proverbial bar, even nothing can be special, especially when it's the first-ever nothing of its kind. That's where we find ourselves.

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phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-30 4:13:11 PM  

Teddy Brosevelt: i wonder why NYC isnt getting any snow...

https://www.silicamag.com/dispatch/new-york-subtropical


It's because of La Nina, which is why the West Coast has been getting absolutely pounded with moisture this winter (and the last few winters), which is good. We're in a very long La Nina pattern right now, at our 3rd running year of it, and it'll switch soon by all indications climatologically speaking. However, that's not great, because La Nina is known to be a 'cooling' pattern for most of the world, and it barely accomplished that, when it switches back, temps start soaring again.

Yay.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 4:18:42 PM  

chitownmike: In a city driven to continuously raise -- or, more accurately, in this case (and maybe other cases) lower -- the proverbial bar, even nothing can be special, especially when it's the first-ever nothing of its kind. That's where we find ourselves.

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Once again, chicago checking in to outdo New York in doing nothing.
 
Kit Fister [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 4:19:32 PM  

BunchaRubes: groppet: alitaki: 5 year old me is crying about the lack of snow.

25 year old me is upset the slopes aren't as good as they used to be.

45 year old me is kinda glad he hasn't had to shovel anything yet this winter.

Kinda the same way. I stopped liking snow when we were not getting snow days anymore. I knew we would not get much snow this year because I "borrowed" a 20 lbs bag of salt from work, they left two huge pallets of it on my dock for a week so they had to pay the storage tax. :)

That's a funny way to say "I am a scumbag thief"


Now now, we have to know where exactly he works to determine whether it's an evil megacorp that deserves it, or a small innocent mom and pop shop that makes him literally hitler.
 
pacified
2023-01-30 4:32:42 PM  
We're keeping the cold in Denver
 
Latinwolf [TotalFark]
2023-01-30 5:45:48 PM  

damageddude: Mangoose: It has always been my understanding that NYC, LI, etc. are all surrounded by water. If the water gets cold, snow comes in. If it doesn't, the warmer vapor goes up and helps turn incoming storms to mush or out right rain. So, along with area temperatures there is that contributing factor.

Not quite right. While the ocean does help keep air temperatures up the ocean doesnt freeze. Occassionaly the rivers and bays do freeze but that only happens when the air temps are really frigid but their water temperatures have nothing to do with whether we get snow or rain. If cold enough air is in place we get snow. If the air temperatures are close to freezing the higher water temperarures may turn potential snow into rain near the ocean.

This year though, until last week and even that was limited, even areas not near the ocean in the NYC area have not received measurable snow. Almost every day this winter has had high temperatures above the normal high of around 40.


There were a couple of days during Xmas week when the temps dropped into the mid 20's but went back up during the day.  Other than that, the lowest temps are just above freezing most days.  Most days it's around 40 and I think there was a day or 2 when it hit a high of around 50.
 
stevenvictx
2023-01-30 6:03:05 PM  
How Texas of them
Wait its snowing/sleeting in Texas right now
 
jake3988 [OhFark]
2023-01-30 7:25:09 PM  

justanotherfarkinfarker: damageddude: the ocean doesnt freeze

You might want to double check that statement. Even with global warming it's still freezing in the north. They have ice breakers for a reason. Hell I've seen the ocean freeze off New England.


They meant the ocean doesn't freeze anywhere close to NYC.  Which is true.  It does not get remotely cold enough for the ocean to freeze near NYC.

There was a very very very frigid winter about 6 or 7 years ago where the ocean off the coast of new england did turn slushy for a few days... but that's the closest it'll ever get.


Denjiro: It continues to be a rainy, mostly mild winter here west of Pittsburgh. The biggest snow we've had was the six or so inches we had back in the first half of November. Since then we've had around four snow falls of 1 to 3 inches, and usually with rain either immediately before or after. We did have the day with a -2 low just before Christmas, which sucked as we also lost power for around 18 hours that day.


I'm glad I braved the snow and cold that day to visit family in central PA.  Not only did I get to see a dying family member (didn't know that at the time, but they were very unwell), but the electricity at my apartment went out for most of the day and the hot water went off for 2 days.

It was a hellish drive but it was worth it.

But yeah, other than those couple of days where the wind chill was frigid, it's been super warm.  January was more than 8 degrees above average.  Just not much of a winter to speak of.

I'm ok with that, but it's very disconcerting.
 
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