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Let’s sit back and reflect on the month we had. What a month. Lots of people happy all around with summer activities and making memories. You feel for those locked up and looking at Moregarbage tweets.

85-90 Monday.

I don't know about the flies. Seems to be heat related for me. My closest neighbor is a dairy farm about a half mile away and the stench of the silage has been overwhelming in 90 degree heat, too. I'm not in Roxbury- I'm just next door in Woodbury/Bethlehem. But I watched that cell from my hill, passing just south of me. The cloud to ground lightning was severe.

Currently 72 degrees. No rain here. Was yesterday….going to end up being the hottest day of the summer? New York State is getting pounded hard with rain this morning.

Another torcher for August shaping up.

But will it produce? A lot of us don't want it to.

Today has gotten a lot of hype. Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk

I wonder what causes it. It seems to happen to a lot of people on the same days. This was the 2nd time in a couple weeks. On another note.. dude you get hit with another Tor yesterday?

I would have lost it. Not squeamish about bugs but man do I hate flies.

I never ever saw the Northern lights.

Lowest SAL on record across the Atlantic this July by a wide margin. So as the tropical SSTs continue to warm and lower the difference the tropics and mid-latitudes, we could see another late bloomer type season like we have been getting in recent years. The overall ACE really isn’t that important if we get a few really intense late season hurricanes close in along the Gulf Coast like as has been the case over the last decade.

I’ve used that for years now, very effective as I catch thousands. Mine is hanging from a tree branch away from the house a bit. That said, emptying that when filled isn’t for the weak stomachs, it’s quite a stench but again very effective..

Finally not boned on the rain around these parts.

I had the swarm yesterday and the day before. Whenever the outdoor temps go over 85-88, they seem to appear. I killed 52, and went through a bottle of Windex cleaning the windows. Got this "outdoor" trap at the hardware store yesterday for $9 and set it up in parlor under a lamp, overnight. By this morning, I had over 40 flies in it, and none flying around.

Tampa just set their highest heat index at 119°. SMQ reached 118° for the 1st time back in June. This July at SMQ was the highest average max dew point at 74.2°. This is similar to July at RDU. So the Mid-Atlantic dew points have shifted north into our area. JFK finished at the 2nd highest avg max dew point at 73.1° just behind the record of 74.1° in 2019.

Fish brings the heat and dews right back early next week https://x.com/ericfisher/status/1950754746488197431?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

78 with soup outside at 0645am. Was this a new record high low for the day? The relief coming tomorrow can't get here soon enough.

Little Phish reference there.

At this point, we're going to need a Hurricane Andrew to even come close to 100 ACE. Absent of that, <70 ACE is pretty much a lock. The 2025 hurricane season has shown its hand. The difference between last year and this year is that the Pacific is very active. Also, at this point last year, we already had Hurricane Beryl. It feels like 2013 all over again. People just kept waiting for the season to turn active that year, and it never did.

Yes, renewables and fossil fuel are completely different industries: extractive vs tech manufacturing. Fossil fuels are very profitable if you control a cheap resource. In renewables China is the low cost-supplier, with an ever widening lead. Making it difficult for the rest of the world to compete. We are a laggard in renewables from a cost standpoint due to tariffs, permitting costs and other factors. With the current administration we aren't going to catch-up either. Another factor is natural gas prices, which are well below global levels in the US due to our local production. Which also hurts the competitiveness of renewables. In the future as US LNG exports continue to increase, the difference between our gas prices and the rest of the world could shrink. We could easily end up with high cost power, vs the rest of the world, particularly China. Batteries and solar are becoming increasingly important to energy economics supplanting oil and other fossil fuels. We are way behind China and falling further behind. Hitching our wagon to the wrong energy horse. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/us-solar-manufacturers-lag-skyrocketing-market-demand/ https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/global-cost-of-renewables-to-continue-falling-in-2025-as-china-extends-manufacturing-lead-bloombergnef/

Something my wife wishes for also..

I hope you're right. I just don't get the excitement over hurricanes and their destructive power.

Notably darker when I am leaving for work in the morning, around 10 min before sunrise. Beginning of the month the sun was already up for 15 mins. Winter is coming.

It feels like a warm wash cloth outside.

While I've been lucky lately with the showers popping imby, the forecast has been swinging quite dramatically as the day of approaches. For the last few weeks MRX has put high rain chances in the d 3-7 period, only to see them slightly dip by d2 and crash by d1. This week was advertised to have 80 percent rain chances today for days in advance, yesterday morning the chance for today was 90 percent, it dipped to 70 percent with the evening forecast package, now it's down to 30 percent. The 80 percent for Friday dropped to 50 percent with today's package. At least the cold front still looks to pass.