Well I'm Sorry About The Weather - The Climate, Earth, Space, Storms, Weather Thread

That's why my flight to Boston will be booked for June!

 

Coward.

 

Well...at least I won't have to worry about falling on the ice and needing Medical Alert for "I've fallen and I can't get up". I just have to avoid getting my cane stuck in cracks in the sidewalks.

 

Boo...boo!!

 

Got about 16-18 inches here in Queens, NY.

Looks like global warming is officially a hoax.

 

Probably none of it. They always struggled to predict these Nor'easters. At least for this one, the predictions were pretty spot on. So was the previous major storm that hit the northeast in late-Jan (although that wasn't a Nor'easter - but the forecast from 3 days in advance pretty much nailed it).

This is very anecdotal, but so far all 4 snowstorms/snowfalls to hit the New York area this winter have been accurately predicted. That was often far from the case just a few years ago.

 

Same here. Had to scrape the car and sweep the sidewalks. I was counting on my sidewalk and driveway being my gym this morning. Instead, the gym was my gym. My students were pretty sluggish. I think they felt cheated out of a snow day.

 

They called the amounts pretty well. They just had a hard time predicting who was going to get it because the tracks of these things seem to be hard to predict.

 

Yeah, for this latest storm they were initially predicting 2 to 3 inches for my area. Then about 48 hours before impact, they could see that the jet stream was buckling north just off the eastern coast, sending the low-pressure system about 100 or so miles closer to NYC, Long Island, CT, and Boston than initially thought. And that's all it takes to get 18-24 inches instead of 2 or 3.

 

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/t...-fuel-boogaloo.2133203/page-227#post-42840909

I wrote this in March 2025.

We've already seen DOGE cuts have close calls (flooding in Appalachia) where close calls didn't need to happen. And we've seen it, unfortunately, cost people's lives and stall operations (FEMA and Texas flooding).

It is really starting to let go that people (citizens, newspapers, politicians) are not adding 1+1 here.

 

It should have read "startling to know that people" Curse you talk to text. I proofed the rest but missed this.

And to shed a bit more light on the terrible Texas flooding tragedy. It was made worse when Kristi Noem personally instituted a rule that said anything exceeding $100K be signed off by her office.

That is what I was referring to.

Noem on claims that new FEMA rule delayed resources to Texas: ‘Absolutely false’