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Why has this year been so bad? There hasn't been anything exatraordinary about our weather over the last couple months.

there's a certain kind of tick that gives you an allergy to meat if it bites you, I call it the vegan tick.

wild I wonder what caused that deep blue area, upwelling?

Yes 2010-2013 was really good especially for the city and points east, we have tailed off since. Yes the lows were lower in the 40s and 50s, but they are still considered hot and very hot days (which refers specifically to the high temperature). Those days with low humidity are ideal summer weather. Warm and very warm weather can refer to higher averages from elevated lows, as a temperature of 70-75 can be considered warm and 80 can be considered very warm.

Latest SST anomalies Atlantic

Deer tick nymphs can be the size of a poppy seed. Picked a much bigger one from my ear this morning - either the biggest deer tick I've seen or the first dog tick I've ID'ed here in 10+ years. (But small for the latter species.) Last night's moon was on the orange side of yellow - odd, but kinda pretty. Thanks, Canada.

Amazing photos as always Don.

Agreed and feel this summer the peak of the heat (above normal) is late July - August and spots east will stay near or mid 20s and C-N NJ 30+ days in the 90s. In 2022 EWR had 4 90 degree days to this point and wound up with 49 90 + days and before then 2016 had 3 90 degree days to this point and wound up with 40. Thursday EWR gets to 2 then will have to wait to the Jun 20 - 30 period to see where June winds up this year.

0.93" for Sunday, June 8. Respectable, but just North of me by a few miles was over 2.00"

40s/50s had more record lows as well check the daily records posted. 2010 - 2019 #90 days vs 40-40 , 50 -59 i think still trended higher recently (maybe outside the park) . I am trying to find previous posts with the data or online. (We) the part of the area east of the Hudson and Staten Island has been influenced by persistent onshore limiting heat west of there while those in EPA- NJ had many above normal 90 degree days in the past 5 years outside 2023 which was jsut shy of normal amount of 90 degree days.

Next 10 days look like a lot of clouds and showers. Couple nice days. Definitely not what you’re expecting this time of year

Columbia: 0.21” for Sunday thru 8am Monday.

Yeah, we are looking really good here in the East.

I got bit this weekend by a small one. I'm going on Doxy today and getting a collar for the dog. He had one seizure last year while one bravecto, collar, and permethrin in the lawn. We are cutting bravecto and the permethrin and hoping the collar on its own doesn't cause seizures.

The lawns are green at least. Nothing worse than staring at endless brown dead grass.

Yeah, my guess is that the only spots this summer that have a chance of reaching 30 days will be somewhere in NJ. Newark was a little over last summer and a little under back in 2023. Central Park has been so overgrown that they haven’t had 30 days since 2010.

This year I've flicked more ticks off of myself than the previous 8 years combined so far when doing yardwork. I've had probably about 8 crawling on me so far. Thankfully zero bites. My dogs are on preventative meds, but I've flicked several off of them as well. It has been nuts.

I’m ready for the switch to typical south shore warm season drought. It’s been a while since we have had such a cool wet start to the summer.

For a actual view of the real data see the below....can you see the UHI problem clearer now Charlie?

Did you see that July 2010 heat I posted? I was wowed that we actually once had that kind of climate. 101 degrees and a dew point of 45 and humidity under 15% lol.

I doubt we will even get 30 (definitely not here or in NYC)..... my prediction would be for less than 30 90 degree days for EWR too.

and very little sun and looks like lots of rain. the real heat looks to be in the West this year, California is having a big heat summer already. Normally when this happens, it means that it will flip just in time for fall and winter, in other words we will have another mild and snowless winter while California gets a lot of snow. Thats going to be my long range forecast

The downside of rainy patterns in the summer are more pests and more spread of infectious disease. I fully expect West Nile and Lyme disease to be rampant this summer because of all this cursed rainfall.

we need to start spraying chemicals to eradicate them, even if it means killing off insects

I was pointing this out last month. We typically don’t get 40 to 50 days reaching 90° like in 2010 and 2022 without 90°+ heat in May. The summer could still average warmer than normal. But we will probablyhave plenty of onshore flow and moisture.