Manuel...Really nice V2 technique.
I think that this a big warning sign towards our earth's health. We should take this into big consideration of how much we've used so many gases and have rapidly raised the earth's temperature. New York tourists expect snow at this time and unfortunately for them, they were left empty-handed from snow, something of which is a popular event in New York.
Manny, are those Alpina summer rollerski boots?
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The lack of snowfall this year has nothing to do with climate change but, rather, was caused by my purchase of an expensive new snow-plow. Sorry about that.
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In the olden days (1960s) we used to grab a garbage can cover or a sturdy piece of cardboard and go slaying in
Fort Green Park for hours.
If you didn’t have gloves, socks had to serve as gloves.
We had the times of our lives.
This went on all winters long.
Now, the kids get to go slaying on the computer.
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There is nothing better than a very large "snow day" in Manhattan. There is a very simple reason for this. Everything grinds to a halt, and most people are forced to stay home from work or school. It is the best when you are falling in love. This happened with me in the winter of 1993-1994. It was so great to wake in bed with my loively girlfriend (and vice versa), hole each other and look out her large bay windows. Nothing is so much fun. Like most people, I have been in several serious relationships. For me, having "grown up" in the deep south, this is the very best setting to savor those prescious moments.
I'm bummed out that we haven't had much snow this winter and continue to hope that we'll have a good shut-the City-down blizzard before the season ends. And even though Mr. Wysocki, the climatologist, says that for now we have enough water in the reservoirs, I can't help but wonder if 8.7 million NYers start washing their hands more often because of the caronavirus, wheter this situation will last too much longer.
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For several weeks now, whenever the temperature gets above 50 degrees, I've been scraping, priming, painting or staining and polyurethaning -- doing whatever I can to get a jump on the rose bushes, crocuses, and other things that are sprouting and budding so that I don't step on them while doing outdoor chores.
I'm done with all those outdoor projects, and it's only March 2. In all my years, and in my parents' lives too, doing outdoor chores around the house, we've never had weather like this.
Anyone denying climate change is either very young and has no memory of New York City seasons, or very stupid.
Darn, now I've been rude.
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"New York City Had One of Its Least Snowy Winters on Record"
Oh, geez, don't jinx things! Remember that we had 5 nor'easters in March 2018.
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So when will Trump take credit for it?
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While I understand the climate change discussion I do get the man made contributions to it. What I’m still having difficulty with is yes we’ve been keeping weather records since the late 1880s and we’ve seen droughts, glacial melting, fierce weather deviations etc it still is for me too short a time to say definitively that it’s ALL man made. In the universes history there have been ice ages, water where land was and land where water was. We’re finding lost ancient lands under the sea etc etc. Millenium after millennium the changes to the earths weather and its landscape has been never ending. And most of that time there were no humans. We humans are relatively new additions. So while not a denier I’m trying to put the total time the earth has been in existence and say perhaps the Earth (with perhaps some help from humankind) is doing what is has been doing long before we got here
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I detest summer and live for winter. How disappointing that we have had no snow and it doesn’t look like March will be any better!
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In addition to the beautiful and aesthetic effects snowy winters have, snow also provides great protection from the bitter cold, frost and ice to all plants, trees and shrubs in addition to the much needed moisture and water as the snow melts in the spring time.
With New York having one of its least snowy winters on record, I worry if enough rain will fall before the temperatures begin to suddenly climb upward.
Mother nature has had it all figured out as long as her domain was not tinkered with. But with so many aspects of the environment gone haywire over the past few decades, I am still amazed at the resiliency of all plant life. Even after the devastation of Mount St. Helens in 1980, within a year or less, vegetation was seen, returning to the ruins.
But for the greatest city in the world to have one of its least snowy winters on record, that's a huge ominous sign of global warming. It's not a fluke.
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"A recent study showed that Tompkins County, where he works at Cornell University in Ithaca, spends twice as much on salt to de-ice roads during winter rains as opposed to snows."
This makes no sense to me. Dumping salt on wet roads KEEPS the roads wet and slows down evaporation requiring yet more salt/ labor costs for communities. Don't be fooled by fear and false science to profit the salt suppliers and spreaders and water filtration systems providers who reap the benefits of these kind of practices.
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Here in Boston, only a few years ago we had monster snowstorms and snow remained on the ground for months, making me swear I would move someday. Nothing much lately.
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San Francisco didn’t have a single drop of rain the entire month of February. Last I heard, that was a first on the rainy season. California is dry again. It will be a tough fire season out west.
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Central Park ought to maintain machine-made snow area all season long, operating the snow guns whenever the temperature dips below freezing. This ought to be done in other parks as well. Just as we maintain our parks to provide respite from urban concrete in warmer months with flowers and trees, the same can be done for those craving a snowy landscape in winter.
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@Edwin
Let's see. Some people posit that the lack of snow in some climes is due to anthropogenic climate change (I love Greek roots, don't you?). Ergo (that one's Latin), why should we be adding man-made heat in the world by running snow-making machines in our parks. Be thankful there's less snow: we're not dumping tons of salt on our roadways, which eventually ends up in runoff to the waterways and our sewer system.
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@Edwin completely agree...in fact, they could use a Snow Machine to make snow when it is warmer than 32, a nice 5k loop would keep the Nordic Community happy and we wouldn’t be so reliant on Roller Skis for training.
I feel bad for the nearby ski areas. Who wants to ski on slush and fall into puddles on a day with yet another record high temperature? And how many more years of this can they survive as businesses?
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Don't speak too soon! Sometimes we get significant snowfall in March - sometimes the worst storms of the season. Winter isn't over yet.
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And in the Hudson Valley too. I love the snow but am also very relieved that I didn't have to shovel my enormous steep driveway this winter.
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Snow is beautiful when it falls and lays a quiet blanket.
Then the plows push it around and turn it into filthy ice, blocking sidewalks at intersections and stranding cars.
Too bad there isn't a way for it to fall only outside the city.
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I’ve been waiting to see ice on the Hudson River. No ice yet. It usually flows down from upstate NY, passing by Manhattan, into the ocean. Every February in my recent memory, but not this year.
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Snow never bothered me, in fact, I've always loved it. Nothing is quite as peaceful and beautiful as freshly fallen snow, especially at night under a full moon. Everything sparkles like sugar.
It's the ice that makes me break out into cold sweats. I no longer bounce like I used to whenever I fall. In Chicago, although we have had some snow, it's usually been rain that freezes just enough to create black and slick spots on the sidewalks and back alley where our trash bins are.
I've started wearing knee pads because that's the area I always fall on first. I even wear my bike helmet on occasion where ice completely covers our entire back yard and walk way.
I can deal with snow but it's the ice that's winter's deal breaker for me.
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Normally we get one last big snowstorm in early March, but it sure doesn't look like that will happen this year. Feels more like a very long spring.
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Very sad and another huge warning about climate change. NYC doesn’t feel the same to me without some good snowy days.
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@Hisham Oumlil
I guess you don't have to shovel it.
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Another silver lining of New York's winter rain (not snow) clouds is a less active flu season than last year. The 2019-2020 flu shot was not better this season; the weather was kinder to our immune systems and our respiratory systems.
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My daughter's birthday is in mid-March. She was born in CA and the daffodils were blooming all over the hills so we thought of her as a spring baby. Then we moved to MA and found that there was always snow on the ground, and possibly snowstorms, on her birthday, definitely a winter baby. For the last 4 years it has been mainly a miss on the snow and even the daffodils now pop up here. She's only 22.
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When I was a child I would dread winters because it would snow from December through early March. I am a 70’s baby and anyone living during that time living in Philadelphia will tell you it snowed and you have to prepare.
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