[mikelizard860]

Originally Posted by Cambium

And... I wonder how many times March had a colder average than December which we are on pace for.

Speaking of water temps ...

take a look at this awesome Hi-Res site. Waters are still frigid off the Northeast coast.
Central Gulf of Mexico warm and is above normal.

These are Water temps, not anomalies.




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I wonder how long that will last though. Huge pool of MUCH warmer water over the entire atlantic. It's like the near shore coastal waters are locked in an ice age.

[jp03]

Originally Posted by mikelizard860

I wonder how long that will last though. Huge pool of MUCH warmer water over the entire atlantic. It's like the near shore coastal waters are locked in an ice age.

When that Bermuda high builds in mid April I think those waters warm up quickly.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by mikelizard860

I wonder how long that will last though. Huge pool of MUCH warmer water over the entire atlantic. It's like the near shore coastal waters are locked in an ice age.

You can sense how it used to be in that Ice Age era. Especially with how the snowpack was stopping in S NJ.

Water, especially deep, not only produce and use so much energy but they take a while to warm and cool. That's without ice on it. Now imagine how cold and how long they stay cooler with ice on them. I saw large piece of ice floating in the sound yesterday. No camera. :-(

Its like filling a glass with cold water, put it in room temperature. Eventually water warms up.
But fill a glass with cold water, put ice cubes in it and it will take a lot longer.

Only saving grace to really get water temps warmed up is to have a ridge pop up in the east. Otherwise maybe no swimming again this summer.

Seeing some intense squalls in NY

https://twitter.com/WeatherNut27/sta...79506424320000

[Adi from the Brunswicks]

So, how much snow is in the forecast for you. Here, its 1.6". Snowstorm so late in the season, how shocking.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by mels

What a traffic crapshow in Fairfield County this morning...was the DOT caught off guard and roads were untreated or was this a case of bad drivers hitting the road in a snow squall?

This had to be a mostly Danbury and points south and east snow. My commute up to there from southern Westchester was the weirdest thing......no new snow at all on the ground until exit 7 on I-684, then after exit 8 no snow on the ground again until between exits 1 and 2 on I-84 (i.e. even the westernmost part of Danbury itself appeared not to have new snow). But very obvious in the rest of Danbury that it snowed last night.

[Mike 75]

The snow bands were pretty localized. Got a nice dusting in Wilton, but in New Canaan there was almost nothing.

[grecostimpy]

Got hit around Norwalk this morning in a squall on I-95. Was the oddest thing....big honking flakes. Then beautiful sunshine 10 minutes later..

[Cambium]

11 of last 17 months have been below normal at the CT coast(BDR) ..... but how can we forget 20 straight months above normal from March 2011 to October 2012.

The last time we had a month being warmer than +4.2 degrees above normal was March 2012

[Cambium]

New NAM update likes NJ.

Experience reminds me that snow melts faster on roads in March during the day, but I think we see 2-4" on other surfaces. I DONT THINK roads will be an issue.

Going to be over 0.40"+qpf so while not a lot of moisture, enough to make couple inches accumulate!

Take a 1-2 inches off this map for initial melting. I, still thinking we see 2-4" widespread in areas you see in blue here.

[Cambium]

Feels like teens outside here at 11am.

Here are the Wind Chill Values with Lake effect streamers still moving SouthEast



12pm update still feels like teens away from coast.