Cleveland's weather (Louisville: home, beach, tree)

[WRnative]

Looking at Accuweather's monthly temperatures for Cleveland Hopkins, it appears that we only had two lows below 15 degrees (Feb. 14 and 15) and none below 10 degrees for the entire 2019-2020 winter, inclusive of the March long-term forecasts. Amazing.



https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/cl...0127?year=2020


I used my snow blower twice this season in the Lake County snow belt. I could have shoveled two weeks (2/15 after a couple days of snow) ago (it's a pain to clean out the snow blower if you really don't need it), but I wanted to empty the gas tank. In the future, my snow blower will be fueled ONLY when its use is immediately needed.



This week we had four inches of snow from Thursday to Saturday. I shoveled maybe four times, partially for exercise, and because I'm very adept at using my aluminum scoop shovel to scrape 1-2 inches of fluffy snow off my driveway very rapidly. I enjoy the exercise, and I like the idea of the sun melting and evaporating anything I miss, even when the temperature is below 32 degrees, in order to avoid black ice.


I'll provide a greater update after March, and hopefully after a cleveland.com article about the mild winter.

[WRnative]

<<Meteorological winter 2019 - 2020 was very, very mild.

In Cleveland, it was the third warmest on record with an average temperature of 35.8 degrees....


Snowfall was well below normal, especially in December and January.


Here is how much we saw in Cleveland.


December 2019: 5.3" (Normal: 14.1")





January 2020: 9.3" (Normal: 18.7")


February 2020: 12" (Normal: 14.9")


That leaves us with a measly snowfall total for meteorological winter 2019 - 2020 of 26.6″.


We see average of around 12.6″ of snowfall in Cleveland in the month of March.


However, this March has only brought us a trace of snow at Cleveland-Hopkins.


>>


https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/03/...winter-record/


Looking at the weather for calendar year 2019, it was the sixth warmest in the last 81 years of record keeping at Cleveland Hopkins.


<<There was little snow and a lot of warm weather in Cleveland in 2019, with temperatures ranking among the warmest in the 81 years that records have been kept at the airport.


The average temperature of 53.1 degrees, factoring in highs and lows, ranks sixth warmest, continuing a recent trend. Six of the warmest years have been in the last decade, topped by 2017 (54.5 degrees) and 2016 (56.3).


https://www.cleveland.com/datacentra...her-recap.html


The above article has a weather summary, including snowfall totals, for the last 50 years.

[Princessroja]

I'm curious to hear the stats on this summer once it's over. I've heard from long-time residents that it's been a very, very hot summer.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by Princessroja

I'm curious to hear the stats on this summer once it's over. I've heard from long-time residents that it's been a very, very hot summer.

I remember a summer when we had a couple days over 100 degrees, apparently 1988 (my Depression-era mother caved and bought a whole-house air-conditioning system). This summer doesn't seem too bad by comparison.



https://www.weather.gov/cle/CLERecords

[OhioNative]

Originally Posted by WRnative

I remember a summer when we had a couple days over 100 degrees, apparently 1988 (my Depression-era mother caved and bought a whole-house air-conditioning system). This summer doesn't seem too bad by comparison.



https://www.weather.gov/cle/CLERecords

Yeah, I remember going to the Monsters of Rock concert at the Akron rubber bowl that year and burning alive in the hot sun.

[ohioaninsc]

Originally Posted by WRnative

I remember a summer when we had a couple days over 100 degrees, apparently 1988 (my Depression-era mother caved and bought a whole-house air-conditioning system). This summer doesn't seem too bad by comparison.



https://www.weather.gov/cle/CLERecords

That was definitely a hot summer...I even remember as a kid not wanting to go outside then.
This summer has been hot but not too hot...I've enjoyed it though.

[Cleveland_Collector]

Originally Posted by Princessroja

I'm curious to hear the stats on this summer once it's over. I've heard from long-time residents that it's been a very, very hot summer.

I don't think this summer was abnormally hot. Slightly above average, really. It's not uncommon to have 2-3 weeks in July/August with 90+ temperatures most days. 1988 was certainly much hotter. It hit 96+ degrees for nearly a week straight and got as hot as 104 (hottest day on record). It was a "dry heat" and that's the summer I realized that hot weather is hot (I was a kid) no matter the humidity. I'll take 90 and humid any day over 100 and dry.

Originally Posted by OhioNative

Yeah, I remember going to the Monsters of Rock concert at the Akron rubber bowl that year and burning alive in the hot sun.

Ha! Yeah, I remember they were hitting the crowd with water from a fire hose. Didn't help much...

[WRnative]

Each winter, I wonder if Greater Clevelanders ever again will see temperatures below 0 degrees F, let alone -10 degrees F, which I remember so well from the 20th century.

Now it appears that winter temperatures below 10 degrees F also are fading into memory. Few Greater Clevelanders in the second half of the 20th century would have anticipated the seemingly rapid disappearance of Cleveland winters.

We've had no temperatures below 10 degrees F this winter, and none are projected, according to the Accuweather.com monthly statistics and forecasts.

As for 20 degrees F, we had three days with lows below 20 degrees F in December, but none with highs below 20 degrees F. December had only 2 days with highs recorded below 30 degrees!

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/pa...5019?year=2020

So far halfway through January, we've had NO daily temperatures recorded below 20 degrees F. For the rest of the month, Accuweather projects no highs below 20 degrees, and only 3 days with lows below 20 degrees. We've had NO days in January with highs below 30 degrees in January and only three are projected. Looking at the Accuweather temperature graph for January, it appears the daily low will be at or above the average daily low for the entire month.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/pa...5019?year=2021

Accuweather projects four days with lows below 20 degrees F in February, and none with highs below 20 degrees. Only one day is projected with a high below 30 degrees F.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/pa...5019?year=2020

For March, Accuweather projects two days with lows below 20 degrees, and no days with highs below 20 degrees or even 30 degrees.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/pa...5019?year=2021

I suspect winter 2020-2021 will be the warmest of my lifetime in Cleveland. For those who still argue that climate change is fake news, wake up! See post 52.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/clev...l#post58915730

For those who disparage living in Cleveland because of our bad winters, this is a comical thought for long-time Clevelanders. If you want no winter weather, certainly avoid northern Ohio. If you want a week or two, at best, of snowy and mildly cold winter weather, likely to ameliorate even further over the next few decades, Greater Cleveland, especially in the snow belt, is the perfect choice.

So far this winter, I've barely worn gloves when just driving somewhere, even though I do keep a pair in my car along with a knit hat. I've only worn my knit hat when using my snowflower during our two significant snowfalls earlier this winter. I haven't worn a heavy coat all winter, but typically I wear a hoodie under a wind breaker, even when removing snow, with the availability of pulling up the hoodie if needed, again rarely used except when removing snow.

Persons who debunk a signifcant climate change migration not only are oblivious to the devastating impacts of climate change that will befall U.S. coastal and southern regions in the decades ahead. They also are ignorant as to how severe winter weather is becoming only the thing of memories in Greater Cleveland. See post 16 and subsequent posts in this thread.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/clev...-travel-2.html

Certainly, we may experience colder Cleveland winters in the years ahead, but it appears doubtful we'll ever again see the frigid winter cold spells of the past, as explained in this thread which examines the impact of climate change on northeast Ohio.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/clev...east-ohio.html

What's scary is the 2020-2021 is a La Nina winter, which is supposed to be a colder winter.

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/produc...ensodisc.shtml

However, cold frontal excursions appear greater during El Nino winters.

<<As shown in the image below, La Nina episodes in the winter months feature a wave-like jet stream flow across the United States and Canada, which causes colder and stormier than average conditions across the North, and warmer and less stormier conditions across the south.>>

https://www.weather.gov/iwx/la_nina#...nited%20States.

Looking at La Nina anomalies in Ohio at the above link, it appears that recent La Nina anomalies have seen warmer winters in northern Ohio, apparently because the Jet Stream, which is weakening due to climate change's warming of the Arctic, no longer dips as far south in winter.

El Nino winters typically are warmer than La Nina winters.

https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbu...ther-in-the-us

<<Wind magnitude is weaker during La Niña years than El Niño years, due to the less frequent cold frontal incursions during La Niña winters,[20] with its effects can last from a few hours to six days.>>

Wind magnitude is weaker during La Niña years than El Niño years, due to the less frequent cold frontal incursions during La Niña winters,[20] with its effects can last from a few hours to six days.

<<Wind magnitude is greater during El Niño years than during La Niña years, due to the more frequent cold frontal incursions during El Niño winters.[99] Its effects can last from a few hours to six days.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%...#North_America

[ohioaninsc]

I remember winters after the first decent snow not being able to see the grass for months at a time.
We've had 2 big snowstorms this year and w/in a week both times it was all melted.
Lake Erie usually has a decent amount of ice on it by this time...but like the last few years, no ice to speak of.

I like the effect on my gas bill though of these milder winters...

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by Cleveland_Collector

I don't think this summer was abnormally hot. Slightly above average, really. It's not uncommon to have 2-3 weeks in July/August with 90+ temperatures most days. 1988 was certainly much hotter. It hit 96+ degrees for nearly a week straight and got as hot as 104 (hottest day on record). It was a "dry heat" and that's the summer I realized that hot weather is hot (I was a kid) no matter the humidity. I'll take 90 and humid any day over 100 and dry.

Ha! Yeah, I remember they were hitting the crowd with water from a fire hose. Didn't help much...

I thought this last summer was very pleasant. I certainly wouldn't have described it as particularly hot.