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So there may be truth to the old saw: "It's too cold to snow."
Yes, indeed! It rarely snows if the temperature goes below 20 degrees. Were you aware that New York gets (or used to get) more snowfall in an average year than Antarctica? The difference, of course, is that most of what falls on Antarctica doesn't melt. But it doesn't snow very much there, at all.
Apologies to winter and snow lovers. February 2012 is now the warmest February on record for Central Park, and one of the warmest on record at Islip-MacArthurt Airport, thanks to a very mild winter that wouldn't budge.
The weather station at Central Park recorded an average temperature of 40.9 degrees. This number is an average of all of the highs and lows of each day of the month. This beats out three previous February's from 2002, 1998, and 1984, when each ended at 40.6 degrees. February 2012 marks the 11th consecutive above-normal month. This also makes three out of the last four months that have made the "top ten warmest" list.
Central Park saw eight of 29 days that were 50 degrees or higher for a high temperature, with one 60+ reading on February 1. Manhattan only saw 0.2 inches of snow all month and the only snow depth was a trace recorded on the 11th. A rain storm on the last day of the month brought it out of "top ten driest" territory, but the 1.37" of liquid equivalent precipitation was nearly two inches below normal.
Have you ever seen a Winter in New York quite as warm as this one? Since Labor Day I think I have had to wear a parka exactly TWICE and one of those days it was overkill.
Today was T-shirt and sweatshirt at just a degree or two below 60!
Keep it UP.
(I hope that doesn't mean a Summer with 3AM temperatures of 90F.)
It's been kinda annoying though. In that it has been very unpredictable. I would actually prefer more snow and a real winter, not this sort of unpredictable mish-mash...
My God, it was over 60 outside when I went to bed last night at Midnight...IN MARCH.
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