A wet end to a very wet year.

[patphil]

I have a weather station attached to my garage that records all sorts of information about temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall.
I can see the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly rainfall information, and the weather station is also connected to the Weather Channel's weather underground.
Anyway, I recorded 60.6 inches of rain for the year 2023 at my house, and 8.8 inches for the month of December.
These are amazingly high values; Chester, NY normally gets about 44 inches of rain for a year.
So we were over 16 inches above normal, and actually got water in our basement once in December. This usually only happens when we have a hurricane or tropical storm pass by.

Does anyone else have any interesting 2023 weather stories or information you want to share from where you live?

[2naSalit]

1. Over here...

In the Rockies, things are not looking good for the winter sports crowd. Ski festivals and resorts have canceled events and are trying to deal with a non-winter situation. I was concerned for our precip levels last summer when most of the country had our normal, of late, summer and we had something quite different. Instead of endless heatwave and smoke all summer long, we had a moderate summer, still warm for here but not like everywhere else.

But the same gyr patterns over the Pacific that made that possible are now denying us snow and the colder temps we once knew. Argentina had a major heat wave, triple digits F, in the middle of their winter last year, that got my attention. I am concerned for this area as we might yet have snow but like two years ago, it all came in a short time and too close to thaw season so we had a 100 year flood when runoff hit. Could be a repeat pattern this year.

Today it will be in the +40sF and may not freeze at night, again. Clouds come and go, sometimes leave a little snow above 8Kft.

[patphil]

2. Wow! But we all know that global warming induced climate change is not real.

It just feels real as we experience it.

This is the 2nd year in a row in Chester, NY where we're going into January and haven't had any snow, and at least the 4th time in the last decade. That never used to happen.
Warmer temperatures are messing with weather patterns everywhere.
I hope you get your snow, but not like you got 2 years ago.

[2naSalit]

3. It's alarming...

And correction, it was a 1,000year flood, closed Yellowstone for a week and they had to build a new road in a different place than the "old" one. I stood along a channel in town before the surge and I watched whole cottonwood trees, roots to canopy, floating down the channel and dunk under the bridge, the current was so strong.

It was something for 200+ miles along with several rivers that drain into the main river. But I found some really awesome rocks afterward.

I'd almost rather have a drought.

[patphil]

4. Humanity has pushed nature out of balance, and is paying for it.

If we don't begin to love this Earth more than we do now, we're going to reap a very bitter harvest.

[2naSalit]

5. Yes indeed.