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Baby it's Warm Outside! Here in the Northeast anyway

SteveJRogers Jan 06 2007 11:41 AM

It could reach 70 today here in NYC! Went outside and it felt like if I was getting ready to watch a Giant game tomorrow it would be Zito vs Pedro for Game One of the NLDS! BTW, week forcast on weather.com says it'll go back to 40's, rainy next weekend and even snow on Monday! So it does appear this is just an anomaly

Nymr83 Jan 06 2007 02:01 PM

disgusting. i want my winter.

KC Jan 06 2007 02:04 PM

I predict one kick-ass February ... back to back blizzards mid-month.

cooby Jan 06 2007 02:49 PM

I just love it...saves on oil, and getting me ready for when I retire and move to the equator

Frayed Knot Jan 06 2007 03:14 PM

I went for a spin on the bike which I thought was going to stay idle until at least March. Would have been a whole lot more enjoyable if I hadn't blown a tire -- TWICE!! -- and had to turn around only a few miles into the trip. The aging rear tire had apparently become dried and cracked during the last few months of inactivity and I wasn't smart enough to check before I left. (note to self: buy new tire before you go our next time)

TheOldMole Jan 06 2007 07:54 PM

I think it hit 80 up here. We had a backyard barbecue.

Johnny Dickshot Jan 06 2007 10:18 PM

Had a fantastic day outside.

Yancy Street Gang Jan 07 2007 09:14 AM

It is nice to have warm weather in January. Thanks, Al Gore! I saw a report on TV saying that winters have become mild enough that palm trees can survive outdoors in zones as far north as Illinois and New Jersey. I'm thinking I might like to get a palmetto for my front lawn.

Rockin' Doc Jan 07 2007 05:10 PM

Did a little straightening up in the yard during halftime of the Jets game. The warm weather has wreaked havoc with the flowering plants. Our viburnum are blooming and the Azaleas are full of buds and some look ready to bloom any day now.

cooby Jan 07 2007 06:48 PM

My son, who works at Kmart, says they've started putting the grills out for sale. That may be pushing it a little (but I hope they're right!)

Nymr83 Jan 07 2007 09:17 PM

i'd love to have the coldest (and snowiest) February on record.

Rockin' Doc Jan 07 2007 09:51 PM

As long as you keep it in the northeast, I hope you get your wish. Personally, I have been enjoying it being in the 60's and 70's every day. I won't be the least bit disappointed if continues through the rest of January and into February.

ScarletKnight41 Jan 07 2007 09:55 PM

I'm just hoping that we have few if any snow days. Otherwise I won't have any time between Impulse2's graduation and the ALA conference in June.

cooby Jan 07 2007 10:27 PM

When is Impulse's graduation day? If all goes well, it will be June 1 here

ScarletKnight41 Jan 07 2007 10:58 PM

June 15, if there are no snow days.

cooby Jan 07 2007 11:06 PM

It's definitely cooling off now

cooby Jan 08 2007 07:09 PM

Snowed on the way home tonight. I think the heatwave's over, it was nice while it lasted

Nymr83 Jan 08 2007 07:35 PM

graduation day changes based on how many snow days there are before then? weird.

ScarletKnight41 Jan 08 2007 09:30 PM

Graduation Day is the last day of school. We don't have built in snow days in the calendar. Thus, each snow day pushes back the last day of school.

Nymr83 Jan 08 2007 10:04 PM

ah, NYC has built-in days

cooby Jan 08 2007 10:09 PM

So do we, three, I think.

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 03:53 PM

Ah, just one month ago.

cooby Feb 07 2007 09:09 PM

Still no snow days, that hasn't changed anyway

Willets Point Feb 07 2007 09:21 PM

It just feels really weird for it to be this cold and have no snow.

Nymr83 Feb 08 2007 11:16 AM

Willets Point wrote: It just feels really weird for it to be this cold and have no snow. be glad you aren't upstate near lake Ontario, some areas have gotten 70+ inches in a few days!

cooby Feb 13 2007 08:38 AM

Brace your bad selves

Nymr83 Feb 13 2007 11:05 AM

snow is finally on its way after a dry season so far. the Ski resort managers must have finally succeeded in their rain dances.

KC Feb 14 2007 07:59 AM

So, the 6-8" forecast for here so far is nothing but a 1/2" of snow and 1/2" of ice ... someone on the news is blaming Bush, of course.

Edgy DC Feb 14 2007 08:20 AM

Two hour delay here.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 14 2007 08:24 AM

Schools closed here. Offices open. I wish offices were as willing to close as schools are. Fortunately I have the option to work at home. Someone else will have to monitor how frequently my imaginary girlfriend urinates today.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 14 2007 08:30 AM

Schools are closed here, for the first time this school year.

Sandgnat Feb 14 2007 08:33 AM

Anyone have a weather update from Northern New Jersey. I am supposed to be flying up there this evening. Leaving Savannah at 6:30pm. Worried.....

patona314 Feb 14 2007 08:34 AM

Hackettstown is iced in.

metsmarathon Feb 14 2007 08:40 AM

sparta seems rather icy as well.

Frayed Knot Feb 14 2007 09:26 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 14 2007 09:48 AM

="Sandgnat"]Anyone have a weather update from Northern New Jersey. I am supposed to be flying up there this evening. Leaving Savannah at 6:30pm. Worried..... Might still be lightly snowing at that point (or raining or icing) but is also supposed to be very windy by tonight. I'm usually the last one to be an alarmist but it's prolly not a good night for flying.

cooby Feb 14 2007 09:30 AM

We only got about six inches, but I have not seen the roads this bad since the time we got 24 inches in 1994. I think the 18 inches we were suppsed to get had the road crews thinking they should hold off. Jeeps are great! Worth every penny! We could have been to work on time if we hadn't slept an extra half hour to see how it looked... Take it easy everyone! :) (PS my daughter in Philadelphia has off too, and that is very unusual)

cooby Feb 14 2007 09:39 AM

There are only about 12 of us here (out of 50 or so) and I seem to be the only one that remembered to wear red :(

Johnny Dickshot Feb 14 2007 09:43 AM

Icy and windy in Brooklyn. If the increased winds and colder temps they call for come thru, it will be a very ugly nite.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 14 2007 10:00 AM

cooby wrote: There are only about 12 of us here (out of 50 or so) and I seem to be the only one that remembered to wear red :( I was going to ask why you'd wear red (I thought it was so you could be seen in the blizzard) but then I remembered that it's Valentine's Day. Dr. Ruth (remember her?) wants everyone to "try a new position" for Valentine's Day. So all of you, start making your plans for this evening.

cooby Feb 14 2007 10:09 AM

Derek just showed up....wearin' brown. ]Dr. Ruth (remember her?) wants everyone to "try a new position" for Valentine's Day. So all of you, start making your plans for this evening. How about the snow shovel position?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 14 2007 10:16 AM

cooby wrote: ]Dr. Ruth (remember her?) wants everyone to "try a new position" for Valentine's Day. So all of you, start making your plans for this evening. How about the snow shovel position? I'll have to look that one up on Urban Dictionary.

KC Feb 14 2007 10:26 AM

My idiot neighbor is out with the snow blower to move an inch of ice pellets off his driveway. Lazy bastard, I hope the engine seizes.

Edgy DC Feb 14 2007 10:34 AM

I wouldn't even call that lazy. Idiot, yes. Salting would be far more effective and less work. The engine may well sieze trying to blast ice off the pavement. The most effect is going to come from the ice melting directly under the engine.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 14 2007 10:57 AM

I feel bad for the meter reader who just came around my house.

Willets Point Feb 14 2007 11:01 AM

The snow here is pretty lame.

cooby Feb 14 2007 11:10 AM

Farmer Ted's right, we got about 6, 8 or so inches. However, if I was still working at Woolrich, I would be sitting in on their spring fashion show. Nice day for it!

cooby Mar 15 2007 06:40 PM

I hope Rockin' Doc's kids packed their boots for their trip

MFS62 Mar 16 2007 10:52 AM

I want to kill a certain groundhog. That furry little shit in Pennsylvania that predicted an early Spring. They're expecting 6-12 inches of snow this weekend in my area of Connecticut. And I have to go to work tomorrow before its supposed to end. I hat that little critter. Later

Yancy Street Gang Mar 16 2007 11:04 AM

I blame Oprah Winfrey.

MFS62 Mar 16 2007 11:54 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I blame Oprah Winfrey. Do you blame Oprah for everything (sorry, I haven't been following closely), or is there something specific about her wrt weather? Later

Yancy Street Gang Mar 16 2007 11:56 AM

Oprah is powerful enough to control the weather, and the fact that she doesn't do so proves that she's an evil toady to the snow shovel industry.

KC Mar 16 2007 01:00 PM

I loathe Oprah, we should have a 'Dis Oprah Day'. We closed early. Roads were crap in mid-Westchester coming home. It can snow until Sunday night for all I care, I love it! Meat in freezer ... check Beer in fridge ...... check Sports on tv ....... check Internet .............. check

Rockin' Doc Mar 16 2007 04:53 PM

Twenty Rocky Mount High School students and 4 faculty supervisors left Rocky Mount on Amtrak at 2:45 AM this morning. It was 84 and sunny here yesterday. It's only 46 degrees with a soft drizzling rain today. I suspect it was significantly colder upon there disembarking at Penn Station this morning (10:45 AM).

Edgy DC Mar 16 2007 04:58 PM

How was the Berra Museum?

cooby Apr 06 2007 10:23 PM

Ya know, it's April, it's about 20 degrees and the news is all about global warming. I wish they'd just let it rest until summertime at least.

MFS62 Apr 07 2007 08:37 AM

Cooby, you might think of taking a short trip to have a conversation with a certain groundhog about his ability to predict weather. Later

Kid Carsey Apr 07 2007 09:15 AM

If I see CNN run that stock footage of the poor polar bear swimming in water instead of whatever else he's supposed to do I'm a gonna hurl. 22° this morning, the crocuses didn't look happy.

cooby Apr 07 2007 11:17 PM

Good grief, even in Texas http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070407&content_id=1885276&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Nymr83 Apr 07 2007 11:23 PM

Kid Carsey wrote: If I see CNN run that stock footage of the poor polar bear swimming in water instead of whatever else he's supposed to do I'm a gonna hurl. 22° this morning, the crocuses didn't look happy. isnt that exactly what polar bears do? swim in water and catch salmon?

cooby Apr 12 2007 07:51 PM

Good freaking lord. They're talking about this weekend here... As this storm continues on its eastward trek, it will produce snow in the Northeast as the weekend comes to a close. This storm has potential to become a 100-year storm for many areas across the Northeast. The storm will move to the mid-Atlantic coast by Sunday night and rapidly strengthen. In addition, the storm will just sit for about 36 hours, resulting in a long duration of rain, wind and snow across much of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. In regards to the snow, the upper potential accumulation could be 3 feet across parts of New York and Pennsylvania. The snow total could challenge all-time April snowfall records, such as the 11 inches that buried Williamsport, Pa., on April 2, 1924. Toward the coast, a soaking rain should fall, with strong winds bringing a threat of coastal flooding and beach erosion. Power outages are possible due to the heavy nature of the snow and strong winds lashing coastal areas. In Boston, the marathoners may face tropical-storm-force winds and heavy rain Monday. For more updates on the storm, go to Henry's Meteorological Madness.

Kid Carsey Apr 12 2007 08:20 PM

Winter Late This Year, House Panel Urges Examination of Bush Administration

seawolf17 Apr 12 2007 09:45 PM

Watch, they'll try to frame this that "global warming" was "invented" by Al Gore. You can keep the snow in PA; we don't want it here.

Elster88 Apr 12 2007 09:57 PM

seawolf17 wrote: Watch, they'll try to frame this that "global warming" was "invented" by Al Gore. You can keep the snow in PA; we don't want it here. Al Gore was influential in the development of the "modern Internet" as we know him. You should send him a thank you card for inventing this forum that you love to post on.

cooby Apr 13 2007 06:16 AM

I hope if it really does snow for a hundred years this weekend, the governor of PA knows enough to close down the roads this time.