Talk:Climate of New York City

More snow than precipitation?
Under the "precipitation" section, the "averages" table shows several months with greater "average snowfall inches" than "average precipitation inches." How is that possible? I suspect that the precipitation numbers are only for rain, but that would be a pretty unusual definition of "precipitation," so there should be an explanation. If the numbers are in error, then they should be fixed, but I can't access the original data cited in the footnote. 74.71.86.1 (talk) 02:26, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Any solid precipitation is melted before measuring to measure the actual amount of water that fell. Snowfall is measured unmelted on a white (painted) wood board at ambient temperature that is cleaned every 6 hours, add those for annual snowfall. Snow depth is the actual, physical depth of snow on the ground at one moment in time, it could be far more or less than the snowfall of the last storm if that snowed on top of old snow or has already melted to almost nothing. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:26, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

Holdridge biotempaeratue calculation.
It seems the definition is to ignore the frost period, making the bio temperature higher than simply the average annual temp. Ignoring December through March basically, the warmer stations like laguardia and jfk average in the low sixties (61 or 64 needed) which makes the holdridge 'humid subtropical' or subtropical moist forest. B137 (talk) 02:37, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Central Park/LaGuardia
While this suggestion will likely go nowhere, wouldn't LaGuardia be a better representative of NYC's urban climate than Central Park? I understand that LaGuardia is not in Manhattan, but it is in NYC limits, and is in a more urbanized zone. We know that parks tend to be cold spots in urban climates (see for example here ). Just some thoughts though, I see that as procedure, stations that are closer to the center would be more likely candidates for Wikipedia. Uness232 (talk) 12:25, 30 August 2023 (UTC)