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Beautiful morning on the shore. Mid Atlantic is a special place.

2.76” total

This thermocline is ridiculous

I remember last week the forecast for this week was "rain chances all week". That basically turned into a few hours of rain Sunday evening and that’s it. Looks like a nice week. I wasn't expecting lower humidity and nice temps though. I'll take it i guess.

Just a hair under 2”

A refreshing 61 when I left the house. Onward.

I appreciate the sentiment but i hope you outlast me My Friend.

I appreciate you. I used to grow tomatoes years ago but I stopped somewhere in the 2010s when I couldn't tolerate their acidity anymore. I grow cucumbers now less acidity and they still taste great. Tomatoes are notoriously sensitive to weather, Too hot too cold too wet too dry etc. Up here in the mountains back in 1996 there was rather sadly a killing frost on May 14 I remember that one clearly because i came back to NY after that weekend and saw a heavy frost the following Monday even on Long Island As far as droughts go I think this one is more localized than the ones I remember from the 1980s and 1990s. 1999 and 2002 stand out clearly in my mind, 1999 even moreso than 2002 because of how it ended with Hurricane Floyd and massive flooding. Both of those droughts were far more expansive. It's good to get a nice short extreme heatwave around the 4th of July it made up for the monstrous Memorial Day weekend washout. July 4th is notorious for that kind of weather it happened in 1966, 1999 and 2010 too. As far as tomatoes go one of my best growing seasons for pretty much everything was 1993 which saw unparalleled heat all summer long. I dont remember if there was a drought or not that year what I do remember is 5 straight days at or above 100 and 10 straight days at or above 90. I also remember growing corn that year, cantaloupes, sunflowers 9 feet tall and weeds even taller than that lol! I used to garden with my dear Dad and he used some undisclosed fertilizer that is probably illegal now and can't be found anywhere haha. All I remember is seeing a big mound of it in the backyard and a giant beetle flying out of it turning and flying towards me quite slowly and me screaming very loudly and running back into the house. Probably a dung beetle? Good memories that stay with you forever!

Based solely on the url, it looks like v5 (version 5?) is the lower number and v6 (version 6?) is the higher number.

I think the summer pattern leads into the winter pattern which is why there's a rubber band effect so our snowiest winters come after our hottest summers. Examples 1966 into 1967 1977 into 1978 1993 into 1994 1995 into 1996 2002 into 2003 2010 into 2011

I love San Diego but the climate would get kind of boring. I like a strong variance in weather between the seasons. So for example a hot and dry summer followed by a snowy winter. 2010 into 2011 is probably the best example of that followed by 1993 into 1994. 1995 into 1996 and 2002 into 2003. 1966 into 1967. 1977 into 1978. Come to think of it i think our snowiest winters come after hot and dry summers.

This 11 year cycle thing really intrigues me although 1911 was on a whole other level even compared to that. I wonder if the sun went through some explosive phase that year. It's useful to remember the vast majority of heat in our solar system originates from the sun. Any changes even a slight change will have magnified consequences downstream. RIP Roger

61F/DP 59F at 5:20am.....relief.

https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#global

There seem to be 2 different sites for the PDO. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/ersst/v5/v6/index/ersst.v6.pdo.dat This one shows -1.29 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/ersst/v5/index/ersst.v5.pdo.dat This one labels it as -2.03