Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse â€" Getty Images Upside-down weather is expected to persist through the weekend.Boy has it been not-very-warm lately. How not-very-warm has it been Kind of record-breakingly, reports Stephen Fybish, City Room’s semiofficial amateur New York City weather enthusiast, who left us the following message Tuesday:
“I’ve been working up quite a storm about the exceptional features of the period November through March â€" in particular a lack of days it hit 60 degrees. The streak we had was from February 1 through April 1, and no longer spell of sub-60-degrees maxima existed until you go back to 1970.
“In addition, the total snowfall between November â€" which had the earliest ‘medium’ snowfall on record â€" and March was second only to 1995-96 in winter seasons when there was at least an inch of snow in November and an inch in March.
“The lack of a 70-degree reading in March is quite unusual. Thirteen out of the last 20 Marches hit 70 or more. Sixteen hit 68 or higher. This one just made it to 59 at the very end of the month.â€
Mr. FybishMr. Fybish added on Wednesday afternoon that the relative warmth of January and February â€" 2.5 degrees and 1.4 degrees above normal, respectively â€" made the chill of November and March that much more remarkable.
“Only four times since 1959 into 60 have November and March each been at least a degree before normal,†he noted.
