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Looking at pictures from the 1930s-1950s era, I think that was a much drier era with much less foliage in our parks, which explains the more extreme heat of that era.

The park may never see 100 F again. CC has made us way too humid for that. Our new summer norms are upper 80s/low 90s for highs and mid 70s for lows with insufferable dews. Enjoy.

I'm up camping at Acadia this week. Every time I go anywhere or do anything outside at all this year it's cold, cloudy with an onshore flow, and non-stop mist and showers. Every. Single. Time. Fuck if I went on a vacation to Mojave in July the gods would find some way to get marine flow off the Gulf of California to ruin the whole thing.

With the very warm lows, could be one of the hotter 4-day stretches in the month of June by mean temperature. These are the 10 highest 4-day mean temperatures in the threaded history. Last year's heat, while falling short of the early 99-101F type forecasts, was still one of the hottest 4-day stretches on record for June. 8th officially, but several of those are duplicates from heat waves that lasted more than 4 days, such that only 4 different years saw hotter 4-day means.

Yes Newark being inland has seen a rise in 90 degree days but not 95 or 100 degree days. So the wetter climate has been tempering their extreme heat too. But 1950 wasn't one of those hotter years like 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955. But I agree about mins, they are definitely elevated compared to the previous era.

So there hasn’t been any long term decline in 100° days in NJ and Central Queens away from the cooling influence off the bay at LGA during the 2020s. Oh yes there's been a notable decline in 100 degree heat, nothing to match 1993's 9 days of 100+ or 1949's 8 days of 100+ at EWR..... cmon Chris, CC has more of an influence on mins than it does on maxes and thats because of our new wetter climate. It's got way more to do with more rainfall and more of a subtropical rainforest climate we have now vs what we had in the 1930s-50s and the 1990s.

Although EWR has in 2022 most recently if you are going by 90 degree days. look at the record cool in the 50s Lows:EWR: 49 (1950)NYC: 48 (1950)LGA: 49 (1950)JFK: 53 (1959)

Looks like Kev has been stricken with another round of emoji-dementia.

EWR: 97 (1993) now this is what a real hot summer is like....something we haven't seen in a long time.

Hope we get some rain. So far, this period of storminess has disappointed

as usual in our new climate, this isn't the 1950s.

101 degrees with a dew point of 45 would be far more comfortable and represent a lower power load.

I predicted this shit days ago.

Yes as usual in our new climate, without the 100+ highs.

Takes all the fun out of it when there is nothing to alter in the quote...I felt dirty.

It's a tropical rain forest here, I have so much overgrowth going on here that I'm spraying defoliant to kill everything. I have no time to cut this forest I have going on in my front yard, so spraying it is.

mean temps have no real connection to extreme highs, during the summer mean temps are mostly driven by elevated mins, we have the same thing going on here. I can prove this, we have seen an overgrowth of foliage with the wetter climate we have been in. This isn't merely about them neglecting trimming the foliage, it's about this kind of overgrowth not being in existence in the 1930s-1950s when we had many more extremely hot days and a much drier climate. The pictures you posted prove it-- during that earlier era we did not have as much foliage as we have now in our parks and that's because it was much drier back then, which is also why the extreme heat was much hotter Sure, the places you listed just now are hotter, but it's because they exist in an artificial concrete climate without much in the way of trees. Coast or no coast, there is no way we would EVER match the extreme heat of the 1930s-1950s except for brief intervals like the 1990s and the early 2010s, unless we switch back to a much drier climate.

well that was not phrased properly

If he sees that he will be...thing about Chuck is that he's lethally dispassionate.

Slow to clear

Wiz Gone Wild

This isn't the same Chuck that we had in 2006-07 *warmest winter ever* LOL

mean temps have no real connection to extreme highs, during the summer mean temps are mostly driven by elevated mins, we have the same thing going on here.

I foresee me working Ray's weenie OT over the next two days Finally some exciting severe to post about