[jp03]

Originally Posted by Cambium

How do people do that? Remember dates from so long ago? I just remember in general things like walking down the sidewalk with walls of snow in the 1970s. Snowstorms started my passion for weather then Gloria 1985 kicked it into gear. Extremes brings out the interest in people and hope it continues.


Kinda funny cause kids today will remember all these crazy snow and cold events. Hopefully will get many of them started too. Just wish we didn't have any brainwashing going on out there now. Didn't have that when I was growing up so it made it more fun to follow weather and climate. Now something has to be blamed and we have to "fix things".




With the link I gave before you can go back any month. I checked and it shows -13 that "Polar Vortex" year. They use the official data from NWS and it also shows -13 with this link here.


National Weather Service Climate


But yeah, this year impressive on the consistent scale and now the low scale for Danbury.

yep..see it now thanks.

[in_newengland]

How do some of us remember storms from way back? I do because I used to write them down in my diary. Amongst the "I think Rich is cute" and "Patty and I spied on the boys" and "We threw snowballs at the bad kids" are notations about "snow, sleet, and rain" and "one foot of snow!"

From the 90s I just remember around 1997 or so saying that when it's in the single digits, you can't even tell the difference. You just freeze faster, that's all.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

How do people do that? Remember dates from so long ago? I just remember in general things like walking down the sidewalk with walls of snow in the 1970s. Snowstorms started my passion for weather then Gloria 1985 kicked it into gear. Extremes brings out the interest in people and hope it continues.


Kinda funny cause kids today will remember all these crazy snow and cold events. Hopefully will get many of them started too. Just wish we didn't have any brainwashing going on out there now. Didn't have that when I was growing up so it made it more fun to follow weather and climate. Now something has to be blamed and we have to "fix things".

While I was fascinated with the weather even in grade school, I didn't really pay the kind of attention where I remember things for the most part until I was in college in the mid-late 80s and living in somewhat colder, snowier upstate NY and noticing the difference and comparing there vs. home on any given day. For example, during the super cold wave in January of 1985 (the one where they had to move Reagan's 2nd inauguration indooors), I was a HS Senior but don't remember it at all weather-wise.

But I do kind of remember the cold, snowy years of the late 70s. In particular I remember a very environmentalist 4th grade teacher who would rant back then about (as many did including a big Newsweek article from 1975 you can look up about) how the cold was being caused by sulfates from car exhaust dimming the sun slightly and how by the time I'm 50 we'd have sent ourselves into another ice age (hmm....I just turned 50 a few months ago and given these last two weeks, maybe he was onto something or had a time machine but seriously, and like what goes on today I do feel there was some truth to the science but it was made too simple and absolute to overly scare/shock us or dumb us down......science made cars a lot cleaner in general after that and solved it just like they found substitutes for freon and solved the ozone issue and I do think some way or another we will figure this out before I'm old and dead without becoming cavemen or going extinct). I hate when teachers inject politics of either side from their teaching, I think kids should have a chance as they grow up to take in all viewpoints and decide for themselves and even change over time if they feel so. My kids tell me about teachers who get "political" to them and I can't stand it even if it is politics I agree with (it is only the "tenured" ones who do this since they can't get in trouble for it unless they get into something really racist or sexist). Fortunately, the subject I teach is Math (very apolitical) and if kids ask me what I think about "you know what" for example (they know I'm a weather geek and love science) I just say "its complicated and do the research" and leave it at that.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

I only have records from DXR back to 1998 and there's never been such a cold temp recorded there. WHOA!

Looks crazy on graph.

Danbury temps this month. Min & Max averages are leveling off now.

That's of course the "official" airport station. I notice at that NOWdata site you love they list a 2nd generic "Danbury, CT" location that goes back to 1937 (oh why can't they go back to 1934 when NYC was -15! I bet they were -20 or lower) so for fun I looked at some dates that I know were really, really cold in our region before 1998 to see how they compare to today's low of -14 at the airport.

Feb. 16, 1943 (last time that it was less than -2 in NYC, it was -8 that day) it was -16 in Danbury.....by the way, 7 days later it was 61 and stayed above 50 for a high for the next 5 days!

Jan 18, 1977 (-2 in NYC and the only time it ever snowed (even flurries) in Miami)....."only -4"

Jan 21, 1985 (that historically cold day in the entire East I mentioned in my last post, another -2 in NYC though -8 in Newark and -7 in Philly and lots of subzeros even in the South)......"only -7"

Jan 19, 1994 (last time until yesterday we had a high under 15 in NYC and last subzero for LGA, EWR, and JFK as they stayed at 0 or above on Feb. 14, 2016)......this one is the most interesting....they were "only" -8 that day, but they had a TON of subzeros that month.....0 on the 11th, -1 on the 15th and 17th, -2 on the 18th, -8 on the 16th, 19th and 20th, -16 on the 21st, yes SEVEN STRAIGHT DAYS below zero (and maybe 8 as the low for the 22nd is "missing"....and the day before the streak started had a low of 0), and then the 26th and 27th were -8 and -18 respectively.


I eventually figured out how to summarize and found that the -18 on 1/27/94 was this station's coldest reading (I didn't go past 1997 since I figure the airport is more "reliable"). That -14 today would've tied their third coldest ever low, I saw a bunch of -16 on 1/8/42, 1/19/38, 1/21/94, and 2/16/43. Then #3 are a tie between two -14 readings on Jan 9 and 11, 1942 (looks like mid-January of 1942 was pretty cold),

[Cambium]

Some reason I doubt we see 50s with a snowpack here. Thats tough to get in January. Maybe. Guess it will depend on storm track and details and timing.

Here's Euro12z forecast for Bridgeport. We drop back down after Saturday but near normal.

I dont think we'll see single digits anymore.


Models 3.0 | wx.graphics | weather.us

[Cambium]

Things to do in winter... bowl outside. Cool!

https://twitter.com/KevinBernier/sta...64081703530496

[ProudFairfielder]

Funny how you changed your location from "Subtropical arctic" to "feels like the arctic"!

[Cambium]

Some stats:: Impossible to list them all.

Nobody younger than 68 yrs old experienced this streak below freezing at the coast.
Nobody younger than 56yrs old experienced this streak below freezing in Hartford area.



Bridgeport, CT 13 days in a row staying below freezing breaks the record and ended the minimum temp staying below 13°F with 7 in a row. (3rd most)


Hartford has 2nd most days staying under 28°F and 5th most with minimum under 13°F.






NYC has 13 days in a row staying below freezing. 3rd most! (should end today).
Only 1961 & 1881 had more. 146 yrs of records. Impressive. So nobody younger than 56yrs old experienced this streak.

[Cambium]

3:45-7:45am Loop. It's coming. Looks impressive now but should be just Less than an inch of snow later for us. Appalachians must be breaking it up a bit.

[atgss]

Originally Posted by Cambium

3:45-7:45am Loop. It's coming. Looks impressive now but should be just Less than an inch of snow later for us. Appalachians must be breaking it up a bit.

It calls for light icing my way in SWNJ today out of all days!