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Did you know that a 16 ounce cup of hot chocolate will cost you ten dollars at Yankee Stadium? It's news to Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who was shivering through a Yankees-Angels game the other night when a vendor passed by hawking the luxury chocolate-flavored water. He later crunched the numbers on the product, and guesstimates that the Yankees are making about $9.15 profit on each hot chocolate sold (23 cents for bulk chocolate power, 6.5 cents for a cup and lid, 5 cents for hot water, and maybe 50 cents for the vendor).

You'll need more than a bonnet to fend off at three, possibly four, storms that will pass our way in rapid succession. The low responsible for the rain and snow so far is moving further out to sea. Rain should diminish this afternoon and evening as a result. Oh, it will still be cold and windy at Yankee stadium this evening and rain showers may return as the game progresses. Game time temperature will be in the lower 40s, but the wind will make it feel more like the mid 30s.

Clear skies, a cool north breeze, today's weather looks so innocent. Ha! While it may be a sunny 55 this afternoon, tomorrow looks to be a meteorological crapfest. The upper level winds are changing from a west-to-east pattern, which has brings a succession of uneventful high and low pressure systems, to a more wavy north-south pattern. The changing pattern will bring about the first nor'easter of the season a bit ahead of schedule.

A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating has gone down to 66%, from January's 69%. While it's still a good rating, it is still the lowest rating of his second term (he had a 31% rating in 2003!) and Quinnipiac finds 55% of voters find him "cold and businesslike, not warm and friendly," a finding "consistent among blacks, whites and Hispanics, men and women and in all five boroughs." Quinnipiac's polling director Maurice Carroll explains, "New Yorkers don't warm up to Mayor Mike, but they give him high marks for doing his job." As for an election matchup, Bloomberg still beats both City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Rep. Anthony Weiner. Interestingly enough, Weiner, who signals he may not run for Mayor, has more support than Thompson among voters, but the campaigning really hasn't begun.

A big high pressure system is bringing fair skies to the eastern half of the country today. Despite the sun we won't see much warming today or tomorrow. The fresh snow cover is so bright that the sunlight is being reflected away instead of being used to heat the region. Look for highs around freezing today and the upper 30s to near 40 tomorrow.

It was no contest. In a battle of weather legends Staten Island Chuck's month old prediction of an early spring was thoroughly pummeled by March coming in like a lion last night. Snowfall amounts generally ranged from 5-8 inches across the city this morning. More than a foot fell on eastern Long Island.

Despite the received wisdom that meteorologists don't know what they're talking about, weather forecasts are usually highly accurate for a day or two into the future. Not this weekend. Between now and Sunday the city will have to deal with a dying storm arriving from the Midwest, a storm developing off the coast, an upper level disturbance and a couple of small high pressure systems. The overall pattern toward weather suckage is clear but the details are far from certain.

Yesterday's rain was courtesy of a low that traveled well north of the city. That storm is strengthening over the Canadian Maritimes this morning, hence the cold and windy conditions. The temperature won't rise much above freezing today, which is ten degrees cooler than normal, and the wind chill will remain in the teens.

In a startling development the Times discovered yesterday that the weather forecast is sometimes inaccurate. That a blown forecast is worth reporting should be seen as good news, as it means that forecasts are now generally seen as accurate. Gothamist freely admits that we were wrong in Monday's forecast. Yesterday' snow was quite pretty and not the ugly mess we anticipated. Snowfall amounts ranged from 1.1 inches at JFK to 5.5 inches at Great Kills.

If you thought last month was chilly you were right. The temperature never escaped the 40s, averaging 4.2 degrees chillier than normal. The coldest January in five whole years! Perhaps more influential on our psyches, last month was much colder, 10.4 degrees, than the last three extraordinarily warm Januarys. Predictably, the cold has given hurf-durfers occasion to demonstrate that they don't know the difference between climate and weather, or global and local.

A cold high pressure system continues to dominate the weather today. Much like yesterday the city will see a mix of sun and clouds, but mostly sun. It remains cool with a high only in the upper 20s.

It isn't a creaking door or a Wilhelm scream but there is a Sound effect this morning. A Long Island Sound effect that is. The temperature difference between the waters of the Sound and the air above is large enough, and the wind is flowing in just the right direction, that a few snow flurries may fall over the eastern end of the island.

Yesterday, temperatures dropped to 5 degrees, prompting the Post to proclaim, "New York City is in a Siberian freeze," and break out the Atlas, noting that the temperature was "icier than those recorded in typically frozen cities such as Anchorage, Moscow and even the Siberian town of Irkutsk." WCBS 880 has tips for various issues that can come up during the cold weather, from hypothermia to cracked lips. The Office of Emergency Management has tips for staying warm inside and out (wear layers; get back inside soon!)—and don't forget about keeping your your four-legged friends warm. Consider rubber-soled booties to protect your dogs' paws from the cold and chemicals used to melt ice as well as getting a sweater or jacket for them.

Brrrr. A full course of winter is in store for the next few days. For a morning amuse bouche we've got great gobs of cold air, brutally grown without sun in northern Canada, arriving behind a cold front. The onrush of cold should cause the temperature to hold steady for much of the day. The approaching high pressure system is pretty weak. By late afternoon we should see an appetizer of calmer winds and a slightly higher temperatures.

This week's weather watchword is cold. Today and tomorrow will be relatively warm but an Arctic chill will arrive on Wednesday. The wind is making it feel a bit nippy today. At least there's bright sunshine to take the edge off the bitter wind. Today's high will be near the freezing mark. Tomorrow will be warmer, perhaps even slightly warmer than normal, with a high in the low 40s. Even though there's a chance of rain tomorrow afternoon, changing to snow in the evening, it doesn't look like much of a precipitation event.

Did anyone wake up early enough to see the sunrise version of Manhattanhenge? We thought not. The sun will be out most of the day and a seasonable high in the upper 30s is expected. It should be a breezy day so be prepared for the wind chill.

The first day of winter was wintery. Imagine that. Search Google News for first day of winter to find hundreds of lazily written news items about the not so amazing coincidence that winter weather occurred on the solstice. We did enjoy reading the reports of thundersnow occurring from Seattle to Maine.

We hate to state the obvious but that was a lot of rain. Three-and-a-third inches of rain, which is nearly a December's worth, fell since Wednesday. Had it been only a few degrees cooler much of the precipitation would have fallen as snow. How much snow? Assume a typical 10:1 snow-to-rain ratio and it works out to nearly three feet.

First, everybody better like this photograph. Gothamist nearly froze our extremities off as we waited for the right moment by the Hudson yesterday afternoon. Anyway, the weather is going to be all over the place this week. Whatever you want warm, cold, sun, rain, snow or wind it will probably happen. Today is reserved for sun, cold and diminishing winds as a high pressure system fills in behind yesterday's wind blast. The afternoon high may not reach the freezing mark - the first time since last February.

A classic winter weather situation is brewing for this weekend. This time of year the Arctic air masses that come out of Canada are cold and dry, thus relatively dense. The dense air hugs the ground, making the high pressure system shallow, which disconnects it from the steering winds of the jet stream. When that happens the Arctic air struggles to get over the Appalachians. Instead it sinks southward across the Great Plains and into the Gulf of Mexico. On occasion the cold air will cross the Gulf, pass through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (you do remember it's strategic importance to the Gadsden Purchase, right?) and reach the Pacific. As the cold air funnels through the gap in the Sierra Madre it creates a violent breeze snickeringly known to juvenile meteorologists as a tehuantepecer.

A high pressure system off the coast today would normally bode well for a sunny and seasonable Wednesday. The Weather Service is saying today's high will be a seasonable 46, but we think that is optimistic. There's a bit of vertical mixing going on, where cold air aloft gets churned up with warm air near the surface, that will likely put a damper on the day's heating. The Weather Channel's high of 42 is looking more accurate.

The city's Department of Homeless Services has recently begun enforcing a rule that is forcing 22 churches to stop serving as homeless shelters. The long-ignored rule states that religious-based shelters operate a minimum of five days a week. Many of these churches had long slipped under the radar and housed those in need three days a week. Arnold Cohen, president of the Partnership for the Homeless, who recently had to break the news to churches told the News, "We will see hundreds of people who will not have a place to sleep. It's antithetical to what the mayor talks about." The city is expected to once again this winter use the Code Blue system, an emergency-preparedness system that prompts city workers to take extra precautions to protect homeless people living on the streets. Right now we are at Level Two in Code Blue with temperatures outside currently at 17ºF after the wind chill factor.

The pre-winter chill continues to deepen as Canada belches more Arctic air our way. The city won't reach 40 degrees for the third straight day today. That won't be be a big deal come January, but it is quite chilly for this time of year. Did you see the snowflakes yesterday morning? Admittedly there were only like three of them. There is another slight chance of flurries this afternoon.

The National Weather Service would like you to know that the growing season is totally over. Yipee! No more frost or freeze warnings until next fall. The lack of any further warnings doesn't mean it won't freeze, it just means future freezes won't kill any plants as they're already dead. Cold air will continue to stream into the region for the next several days.

There's plenty of cold air behind the front that passed through the city last night. For now the axis of cold has plunged southward rather than heading east. That misdirection will let the city squeeze in one more warmish day today. Expect a high near 60 with a slight chance of showers later this afternoon.

After a couple of warmish days the city has quickly cooled off in the wake of last night's cold front passage. There's quite a pressure gradient associated with yesterday's storm. So, even though the low is now over the Canadian Maritimes, the city will still feel its windy ways today. Expect winds to rev up to 20 miles an hour, with gusts to 30 mph, throughout the day. A brief snow flurry or two is not out of the question. Today's high of 44 was reached at midnight. At best, temperatures will hold steady in the upper-30s during the afternoon hours.

Through yesterday, this month was on pace to be the tenth warmest February recorded in Central Park. Cooler conditions today, and especially tomorrow, will put a kibosh on any top ten dreams the month may have had. This morning's brisk winds are in advance of an approaching Alberta Clipper that will pass through the area this evening. As the clipper gets closer skies will cloud up and there's an outside chance of a few flurries. The system is pretty weak and clouds will dissipate later in the evening. With any luck the sky will clear enough to make viewing tonight's lunar eclipse possible. More on the eclipse later!

You might think that today's forecast, warm with a chance of a thundershower, is a harbinger of spring. You would be wrong. Mother Nature lives up to her cruel mistress moniker by dangling spring in front of us while all the while holding another cold snap in a gloved hand behind her back. A warm front swept northward through town last night, raising the temperature to 62 degrees this morning. It may warm a degree or two more, probably not enough to reach the record of 68, before a cold front arrives in the early afternoon. Before it begins to cool there may be an occasional shower or possibly a thunderstorm. There's a big gob of rain on the radar just east of Atlantic City, that may just skirt the city.

Yesterday's high of 40 and low of 28 was exactly average for Valentine's Day. Today, like all the children in Lake Wobegon, will be above average with a high temperature close to 50 degrees. The reverse will be true tomorrow. A cold front tonight will usher in a quick blast of cooler air. The high tomorrow will only be around freezing. Earlier in the week the front looked like a rainmaker, but we should only see a few clouds tonight.

Yesterday, strong winds and colder temperatures meant a freezing Sunday. The winds, up to 50MPH, knocked down scaffolding all over, as well as downed trees, causing power outages. In one instance, fallen scaffolding outside a new six-story building Brooklyn "crushed cars on both sides of the street." (a cop was also hit by flying corrugated metal). There was also snow, blowing sideways into the faces of people brave enough to be outside.