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You sure do belong in a continental climate. No wonder you are always disparaging the climate of London. You love extremes.
I find climates with little variation very boring. I prefer seasonal variation rather than day to day variation.
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Personally I detest the temps flip flopping all over. I'm glad it happens pretty much only in late Fall, Winter, and early Spring. Summer is my favorite, and just so happens to be the most stable temp wise.
Summer and winter are my favorite climates. The season with the most variability is Spring. I would find Philadelphia's climate acceptable of course minus the winters which are rather lame.
Our summers are also more variable than yours. The difference between your all time hottest summer month and coolest summer month is much smaller then ours. If I'm not mistaken your warmest month on record was July 2011 with an average high of 91.9F (at Philadelphia Int) with a Mean of 82.4F. The station with the highest average max that I saw was Norristown had an average high of 94.3F. http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders...CCD69DD611.pdf
Lake effect began this weekend here. Temps dropped quickly to 13 on a NW wind last night. A plume of lake snow finally settled over us last night and let loose. Calling for snow for most of the week here with waves of energy passing over the lake. Unusual to keep getting this much snow so soon in the season. The NWS said this is more typical for snow and temps in mid January. That's ok, I'll take it since I love snow, but the cold cold I can do without.
With continued Winter storm warnings over Texas and Arkansas and the upcoming storm ; coverage should increase if there's not much melting. Impressive for Nov 24th.
These were the biggest fluctuations in daily highs in 7 day periods here...
17.9C
Jan 19: 5.5C
Jan 24: -12.4C
25.9C
Jan 24: -12.4C
Jan 30: 13.5C
21.5C
Jan 30: 13.5C
Feb 4: -8.0C
22.6C
April 11: 3.3C
April 18: 25.9C
23.3C
April 18: 25.9C
April 20: 2.6C
17.8C
May 9: 24.8C
May 12: 7.0C
20.5C
May 13: 8.7C
May 20: 29.2C
19.3C
May 20: 29.2C
May 24: 9.9C
19.3C
May 24: 9.9C
May 30: 29.2C
21.3C
Sept 10: 34.5C
Sept 13: 13.2C
so the fall has had pretty stable weather compared to mid-spring and especially mid-spring when temps were consistently oscillating by 15-20C whereas in the fall it's been more around 10C, and in the summer it's been around 5-10C. March was almost as stable as July this year.
THis is impressive to see such large magnitude anomalies in a 10-day Ensemble mean hemispheric height map.
The negative WPO and ridge over Alaska argues for widespread cold centered near and just EAST of trough
Similar to Dec 1983! That was one frigid December for the Midwest
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THis is impressive to see such large magnitude anomalies in a 10-day Ensemble mean hemispheric height map.
The negative WPO and ridge over Alaska argues for widespread cold centered near and just EAST of trough
Similar to Dec 1983! That was one frigid December for the Midwest
I thought I would post a pic of the Accu Weather November forecast for Philly that was on their website on October 25th. I'm doing this just to put some perspective on these long range forecasts you keep posting. No one knows exactly what will happen in December at this point.
Accu Weather was so far off it is laughable. And they use all those models you post and more.
And our actual temps. I have to laugh at November 24th being 53F. We didn't get above 32f.
Even early in the month they were way off.
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