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The small black ticks are the worst and they're the ones that cause Lyme disease. A deer fell into my pool and died a few years ago and I found six of those ticks on my clothes that summer and got that tick repellant chemical from Amazon to put on my clothes, but I was changing my clothes in my garage every day I worked in my garden and washing those garden clothes in a bucket in my driveway outside every day. I did some research and found out that the tick's best natural enemy is an opossum, they eat those things like crazy so now I always leave food out for them.

Ahh central park LGA, EWR, New brnswck many other sites have had 7+ or longer heatwaves since 2002. SO has NYC

And the models forecast it all the time to no avail

It’s amazing how second soil temps crack summer levels the crab grass explodes into existence. I’m grateful for the rain, and cooler temps right now. It’s giving my sprouting grass and young lawn a fighting chance. Full Sun and dry for a string of days is especially detrimental for new lawns in June with the peak sun angle.

https://www.weather.gov/okx/heatwaves Longest Heat Waves - 90 degrees + in a row (through March 10) Days Dates Temperatures 91,91,91,94,98,99,98,100,97,102,94,90 92,97,97,93,96,97,93,92,90,98,90 98,100,101,102,97,94,94,91,90,90 90,94,92,97,95,98,94,96,93,90 92,96,98,95,92,93,94,94,94 93,92,96,98,97,100, 102,92,104 91,93,91,91,91,94,99,101,95 93,94,91,94,92,91,93,93,91 96, 95, 95, 96, 97, 90, 92, 91 91, 92, 91, 94, 93, 94, 96, 95 98, 95, 98, 94, 95, 94, 96, 93 97, 102, 97, 96, 95, 95, 96, 95 91,91,93,95,95,100,100,94 93, 93, 91, 94, 96, 90,96 93, 93, 95, 94, 96, 99, 97 90, 93, 96, 99, 96, 100, 102 94, 93, 94, 98, 96, 93, 97 94, 95, 96, 93, 94, 94, 93 98, 100, 90, 95, 100, 97, 93 92, 97, 100, 101, 91, 90, 90 https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2013/07/new-yorks-lengthiest-heat-waves.html A heat wave, at least in the Northeast, is defined by the National Weather Service as three days in a row with high temperatures of 90° or hotter. They occur, on average, about twice each summer. However, this post is interested in "big boy" heat waves, i.e., those lasting seven days or longer. Since records began in 1872 there have been just twenty-two, with one occurring about every seven years. The seven-day heat wave of July 2013 broke a ten-year streak without one (and there hasn't been one of this length since).

I broke down and installed.. 2 windows in each room so the cool nights were going to be getting I'll just put the window fan in the other one.

It really doesn’t have to be this way; but you guys who want 88+ and endless sun are asking for it.

0.10" from this morning. Looks like up to an inch in some of the favored areas of that line as it came through.

Ticks are insane. The small ones esp. Up until this year it was not a problem for the dog because he used to be able to have a collar or take meds. Never had seizures before then BOOM he had one. Vet says no more tick meds or collars. Leash walks now only in the neighborhood. We may try another tick topical product and see what happens.

.5” of rain in 30 minutes. At swim time trails of course! I have a feeling it’s gonna be an uncooperative summer for swim teams in the area.

No thats not all of it, climate change doesn't mean higher highs here in the northeast, at least in the areas where we live. It's not about *sensors running warmer* I lived through the 1991, 1993, 1999, 2002 great summers when we had 100 degree days. I measured the heat myself and it was more excessive than what we see now. Cities like PHL, NYC, JFK are on record lack of 100 day streaks now. It's because *climate change* does not mean *global warming* not every place is experiencing higher temperatures, especially higher maxima. In the winter sure, it's getting warmer, but the summer-- not so much. The averages are getting somewhat higher yes, but that is driven by higher minima, extreme heat is being blunted by more rainfall. You can see this with how heatwaves are much shorter than they were back in the period I referenced, with drier hotter summers in the 90s up to 2002 we had much longer heatwaves. 2002 was our last summer with two 7+ day heatwaves and we have not seen 100 degrees here since 2013, and this record applies to all three cities.

Still no 90s in Harrisburg yet..Came close on the 4th with 89..Still no heatwaves in sight.Last year we started off cool but Summer really kicked in mid June.

Philly, NYC, JFK all have record lack of 100 day streaks right now.

Might be able to see the base of the mountains, with tops in the clouds. Hope the wx at PEI is better.

if we go by number of 90 degree days probably less hot but this is bound to change at some point and we will return to our hot summers from the 90s once again

What I would expect coming out of a nino. The ocean is cooling overall and the warm anomalies are migrating away from the tropics.

In 1993-94 and 1995-96 and 2004-05 they were not snowy enough (at least for the northeast).

After spending 7-8 hours standing in 50F Noreaster rain last weekend at a huge lacrosse tournament here, let's do it again this morning for another big event. Only 4 hours this time . It's comical at this point.

Very nice install, looks pro.

perfection

I think the rainy conditions to our west and the tendency once again of over-the-top heat and steep ridge patterns means our summer will probably be humid and hot but not excessively so. We'll hit 95 a few times but outside of Newark once or twice maybe no 100s. With the steep ridge we can't get the warming downslope westerly flow and instead drown in FL-like humidity with S flow. And that means the coast likely goes into summer drought mode stuck in the marine layer while inland gets the T-storms unless we can get a more organized system to drive them to the coast. I'm glad we all had the rainy May so we can stock up before it inevitably dries out for summer. We might already be starting it on the modeling which shows heavy rain inland and relatively dry NYC east.

Near zero vis on the beach right now. Hits like a wall right around merrick road. Let’s see if we can scrape together a couple tenths on the south shore.

Thunder and moderate rain here

Amazing. Once again, you're like 3 miles away, and I only got like .03

Models are too a lot of things, not just too snowy. Case in point, last year the gfs, accounting for the 3 runs per day, had philly over 100° more than 80x. The Euro was better, but it still had them over 100 numerous times. Philly reached 100 zero times last year. A nws met tracks this on a Philly board, so im not making it up. Too snowy. Too cold, but also yes, too hot. I know some can't handle that last one.