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1) This summer has not been *that* hot. It's pretty standard NYC summer (temperature wise) if you ask me.
2) Wow, how do you not remember the snowpocalypse of 2010/2011?
From what I've noticed, we seem to have one "bad" winter followed by a mild winter. I think this winter will be pretty cold and snowy.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the hardier varieties of palms are able to overwinter outside in NYC in my lifetime.
Also, lots of snow doesn't necessarily mean a particularly cold winter. Yes, obviously it can't snow unless its cold enough, but I don't recall very many below zero days in NYC over the past 5 years. Some, but not many.
The winter of 2010-2011 was insane. Definitely the worst of the 23 winters I've experienced in my life. Constant snow cover on the ground from late Dec. through late Feb. And it seemed SOOOOO cold in January '11. I remember a few days in a row when it was below 10 degrees DURING THE DAY. I even remember a 5 degree morning that was the coldest day I've felt since that zero degree day in the mid 2000s. And if our memories don't serve us further, the winter before that, in February 2010 we had the snowiest February in NY history. I remember I was working at the dining hall at my college, and I had to shovel the outdoor promenade AT LEAST 4 times that month. Two of those four times grounded the tri-state area to a standstill (at least 6 inches). So to answer your question... yes. We will get snow
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the hardier varieties of palms are able to overwinter outside in NYC in my lifetime.
Also, lots of snow doesn't necessarily mean a particularly cold winter. Yes, obviously it can't snow unless its cold enough, but I don't recall very many below zero days in NYC over the past 5 years. Some, but not many.
That's true, barkomatic.
Its conceivable to tie together years of high Winter temperatures and heavy snowfall.
It's good that you cannot remember below zero days because the last was 18 years ago...Jan 19, 1994 (-2F) and the one preceding was 9 years earlier also -2F. There have been exactly 8 days below zero in Central park since the end of World War 2.
I'm just hoping for an early, ice cold, snowy, blizzard-y winter!!! Last "winter" sucked big time! It only really snowed once and we barely got anything. There was also that snowy, slushy mix we got that amounted to nothing but a mess.
Man I hope not. the only people who want snow & cold is DSNY so they can get the OT.
the winters since 2000 have been very cold. The 90's weren't so bad. January & Febuary were cold, but the past few years it's been normal to be getting snow in December, which I don't mind becuase I enjoy a litttle snow around the Holidays.
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