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squall571 t1_j5s2aoq wrote

No snow but it always seems to be raining or overcast

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TheNormalAlternative t1_j5s2bpn wrote

ANOTHER one of these articles? This is like the 3rd or 4th in 2 weeks.

Tl;dr an extended la niña pattern, and a jet stream which has kept the arctic air north of the border while allowing gulf moisture to dominate the east.

Just wait until next weekend. tomorrow (today)

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smg28 t1_j5s2pvx wrote

Snow sucks in the city. Looks pretty at first but turns disgusting in a matter of minutes

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clorox2 t1_j5s6air wrote

The temperature is too high.

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susliks t1_j5sfjrg wrote

Global warming strikes again

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froggythefish t1_j5smp31 wrote

It’s weird, how I’ve never heard the term “la nina” before people started using it as an excuse to try and dodge the fact the climate is totally fucked.

“It’s the la nina weather, guys! I promise bro! It’ll snow next month, just trust me bro! I swear, please bro, it’s the la nina weather”

Where was this “la nina” when buffalo got buried. All your scientific graphs and charts and radar readings are great and all, but this isn’t normal, nor is it natural. It felt like summer until a few weeks ago, it’s starting to almost feel like fall. Your children wont get to be knee deep in snow, ever, except for when they’re neck deep in it.

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Floppafan420 t1_j5t38mi wrote

Thank climate change for that warming the earth disrupts weather patterns.

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RyzinEnagy t1_j5t6app wrote

Replying to froggythefish (#1,481,226)

Lol, it's not an "excuse", it has been a documented pattern for decades (along with it's counterpart El Niño). That same storm that buried Buffalo gave us rain. It's a similar pattern right now. We may be in the same state but we're in very different climate zones.

Everyone here agrees with climate change, even the ones you're trying and failing to make fun of. Pick up a book next time.

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kenwanepento t1_j5te0o1 wrote

Snow could hurt the rats which would be bad for tourism

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GlamSunCrybabyMoon t1_j5thvq3 wrote

I’m not complaining. People drive like idiots in the snow and I am not excited to shovel my car out of a parking spot just for someone to take it.

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OkBottle2000 t1_j5tjdmm wrote

I swear every time we have a snow drought, people just like to conveniently forget how much snow we got in recent past years (winter 2020)

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iv2892 t1_j5tm23j wrote

It has snowed , just not measurable snow on Central Park though . But technically speaking it was snowing about a few days ago (just flurries though ) and some boroughs and nearby towns got around an inch of snow last December . But is abnormally low regardless

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ICantThinkOfANameBud t1_j5tmp2f wrote

It's going to snow today, just wont stick as far as I know. It snowed a few days ago too.

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iv2892 t1_j5tneup wrote

Looking at the radar it looks like a lot of snow coming just west of the area , but models say i will switch to rain later in the afternoon

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iv2892 t1_j5tnm70 wrote

Replying to seafoodgodddd (#1,480,772)

I checked the forecast and it looks like it will be a snowy february. Not sure how much , but is gonna be at least 1-3 inches which given this slow winter it will feel like a lot

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TheNormalAlternative t1_j5tyt9a wrote

Replying to froggythefish (#1,481,226)

La niña and El niño exist, and that fact is not incompatible with climate change.

They are just names provided to describe where the dominating high pressure system is located over the Pacific - closer to the Equator or further north. The pacific high pressure system plays a significant impact on the jet stream, and is the primary indicator of whether storms roll in thru California or Washington.

In fact, climate change has been blamed for making the effects of these pacific conditions more pronounced and less cyclical.

If you're uninformed about something frequently reported in the news, good chance it's because you're naive not because society is trying to pull one over on you.

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attackplango t1_j5tz378 wrote

I dunno, I saw little wispy flakes for up to 10 minutes in downtown on Monday.

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RyzinEnagy t1_j5u1j4i wrote

Replying to iv2892 (#1,484,380)

That too, but this particular storm went up through the middle of NY itself so they were on the cold side and we were on the warmer side. If the storm was further east it would have been us with a classic nor'easter.

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froggythefish t1_j5u4pbi wrote

Replying to TheNormalAlternative (#1,485,872)

Sure it exists, of course it does. But no one cared or mentioned it in mainstream media until everyone started to notice “oh, we’re totally fucked” and now everyone is trying to find any other explanation for this years weather.

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Wintermute7 t1_j5u99hz wrote

Because there are too many gas stoves /s

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chill1217 t1_j5uai19 wrote

Replying to King9WillReturn (#1,486,342)

how is it a visual bias?

normally when i walk my dog and wipe their feet, black stuff comes off. after it rains and i wipe my dog's feet, it's pretty clean.

similarly with snow, my shoes and pants get splattered in spots from the dirty snow's dried mud.

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King9WillReturn t1_j5uc074 wrote

Replying to chill1217 (#1,487,193)

Because there is no sudden variable that makes the city coincidentally dirtier on a (random) snow day than any other day of the year. You're only seeing the dirt accumulate suddenly and visually in the snow. A visual bias.

You would need to show data that there is an external variable at play on that specific day. E.G. Rise of traffic. Factories pumping out more soot. Then you would have to show why it coincidentally only happened on snow days and why. Also, what happens if it doesn't snow on these days that you showed the variables to be planned to release more dirt and pollution. A near impossible task.

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_allycat t1_j5udijr wrote

I feel like the entire greater NYC area doesn't get snow anymore and has been this way for many years. Like maybe a couple inches of snow in the evening once a year that everyone freaks out over.

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SolitaryMarmot t1_j5udu4c wrote

just to frustrate all the insufferables who want to go on and on about the Blizzard of '96.

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chill1217 t1_j5ue1ts wrote

Replying to King9WillReturn (#1,487,369)

> You're only seeing the dirt accumulate suddenly and visually in the snow.

doesn't dirt accumulating in the snow make it extra dirty? just like when it rains, the dirt is washed away so it's cleaner

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EasyE0287 t1_j5uew7t wrote

Replying to TheNormalAlternative (#1,479,584)

And the Tonga volcanic eruption last year that pushed an outsized volume of water vapor in the atmosphere. Its having a gentle warming impact, and is not expected to fully dissipate until after next winter (2023-2024).

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rouselle t1_j5un3h2 wrote

It is snowing in NYC as I’m typing this

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iv2892 t1_j5uqik5 wrote

Snowing right now here few minutes away from Manhattan

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fanatical t1_j5v91sd wrote

Replying to analog_x700 (#1,486,097)

Heyooo. Great question, albeit basic. It’s due to the temperature over time.

As I’m sure you know, winter is winter and colder, because due to the earths orbit and tilt, we are further away from the sun, and we get less sunlight in a rotation than we would get in summer.

Clouds are water vapor and in summer, a warm ground will cause water to evaporate and show up as nice puffy clouds in the sky and then perhaps dissipate all together. In periods with colder temperatures, the reverse actually happens. The ground itself is cold and wet, and the air is more stable and the ironically warmer air higher up will be stable to where clouds form that are huge and flat, squeezed between these layers. They also last a lot longer since no sharp heat from the sun hits it.

In fact, since they become big and flat, even less sunlight gets in and so they make this layer that keeps all that “dew point” water vapor to stay locked in. Result, we get more rain. If it was colder it would just freeze and come down as snow, but since this has been a mild winter this year, all we’re getting is rain since it doesn’t freeze properly.

Does that make sense? Hope I helped out and didn’t make it sound even more confusing.

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Dont-ask-me-sht t1_j5vll84 wrote

Not me reading this after being outside and it was sleeting 😮‍💨

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Corazon-DeLeon t1_j5vo5d6 wrote

We actually had two random days of light snow last month. Flurries about a week ago. I’ve gotten used to Feb. being the snow month 😪 terrible commutes. It’s still odd and concerning nonetheless.

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sewkzz t1_j5w86le wrote

Abrupt climate change is a bitch

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dekalbavenue t1_j5wt75i wrote

I love the mild winters. No snow for me thanks.

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Abeg1985 t1_j5yapiu wrote

Even the snow got the he’ll out of New York and went to Florida

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anthonymm511 t1_j5yb7au wrote

Because this is tied to be the warmest January in history in the city

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NYCB1RDY t1_j5yejzx wrote

I'm waiting for snow to buy a toy, an electric snow blower...a reason my wife would allow me to do it😮‍💨 Come on snow!

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PBM1337 t1_j5yqlj8 wrote

Y’all really wanna see yellow snow?

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BorEqua t1_j5ywedf wrote

I remember NYC getting so much more snow when I was a kid. Maybe Al Gore was onto something, yeah?

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werdnak84 t1_j600mgb wrote

Climate change making everything in the world dryer so there's less moisture in the air, a jet stream keeping the cold air to the north, and La Nina preventing everything from getting cold.

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