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your post is going to upset the "villagers"

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Ineedblankets getting his July 4th temperatures? Here in the valley up north the high is 71F currently. New 12z NAM might not make it out of the 60s north and mid-70s SNE valleys under full sun? Independence Day... Sunny, with a high near 71. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Despite 80-90% rain chances last night we’re sitting at 0.00” storm total here for the front

Snow season started great, with 8" paste T-Day night. The 9.3" fell on 12/4-5, bring the pack to 15", tops here for the date. Little did I know that the best was behind; that 4-5 event was the season's biggest and the remainder was mostly spent escaping from serious snowfalls. After the nice 6.3" fluff on 12/24, we had only one event greater than 4". No other winter here can claim that factiod.

This story is over 20 years old now and the tree growth has greatly increased since then. Central Park Weather: Vegetative Overgrowth Affecting Weather Readings - WABC-TV (New York-WABC, August 22, 2003) - Forecasting the weather is not easy. Government equipment can often be blamed for giving faulty weather information. As Bill Evans explains, a big culprit may be some of the equipment buried in Central Park. Rainfall, snowfall, and the temperature are all vital information recorded 24 hours a day at the weather station located in the heart of Central Park. But meteorologists like Michael Schlacter have serious concerns about the accuracy of the stations data. It sits amid overgrown vegetation and he says thats the problem. The leaves can trigger snow gauges and trees can warp rain and wind measurements. On this hot day, a temperature gauge is in the shade instead of direct sunlight. Michael Schlacter, Weather 2000: "Its kind of like driving a car without a speedometer, odometer, and gas gauge. You are running with false information." The weather instruments at Belvedere Castle have long adorned the top. There used to be a government meteorologist here in the city to keep an eye on them. But now the nearest meteorologist is 60 miles that way. But National Weather Service meteorologists say they knew the weather readings in the park would never be as keenly accurate as the ones at the airports where guidelines prevent foliage from being within 100 feet of the station. Schlacter: "We knew that at times we would have flaky readings, that leaves would fall in gauges, that we would have problems with visibility sensors." [NWS Meteorologist-in-Charge Michael] Wyllie says the weather station is there because it was historically significant to maintain its presence in the park. He says theres been a lot of growth because of the wet spring at so much in fact that temperatures have routinely been recorded lower in the park than at the airports. Wyllie: "We are actually having a micro climate system there because of the vegetation." Imperfect perhaps but nonetheless the system provides the official record of weather for the country's largest city. And Michael Schlacter says its a city that deserves better. Schlacter: "I think New Yorkers deserve a lot better, and I think they deserve the best weather station money can buy." Copyright 2003 ABC Inc., WABC-TV Inc.

Connecticut is the Philadelphia of New England in all seasons.

Will be interesting to see where June 2025 places. Looks like we won't beat 2021 but good chance to finish in the top 5. It should be noted that 2021 is the warmest by a long shot, as you can see on the temperature plot below. Last year finished in second place. Below is an article from the Washington Post on the heat in June, with a map showing temperature anomalies. Per the article, above is +1 to +3, and well above +3 or better. If this is line with NCEI's final numbers, the CONUS temperature would certainly place in the Top 10 warmest. Like I said 2021 looks hotter on my glance at the data, but probably not too far from last year's final tally. I compared the map below to 2022 [11th hottest June] and this map is clearly warmer than that month. In 2022, the only widespread area of +3F or greater anomalies was in Texas and scattered locations along the Gulf Coast and in the Southwest. This year saw widespread 3F or greater anomalies throughout the interior west, the Upper Ohio Valley, parts of the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic. June was hotter than usual, and humid. See where your area ranks. - The Washington Post Here's what 2022 [11th place] looks like on NCEI divisional maps, with the same anomaly convention [+1, +3, -1, -3]:

.75 here last 24 hours but those two areas to my SW and South have scored with over 1.50 and 2 inches. Bethany Beach with over 4.9 inches of rain this week. Will add to that today and the final push of convection moves East and then offshore.

Yeah, impressive 500 mb height rises to the north and east of New England during the hurricane season has been steering all the major hurricanes into the Gulf and Florida since the 1990s.

We're already in trouble. But not because of a carpet of oak germinants - 99.9% will die due to insufficient sunlight.

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fossils-earth-famous-extinction-climate.html Particularly alarming when the study cites destruction of the tropical flora band, which is precisely what anthropomorphic influence is doing

Didn't realize the AO was so + in the middle of Winter last year.

Station stats for June... Tied for 6th warmest past 48 years ( last year was warmest ). 3rd driest with 1.47" rain . I think that the last 10 months going back to September was quite possibly the boringest stretch of weather I can remember. Four of those months had record or near record dryness .

when i was a kid 70 degree dewpoints felt special

I finished June with 10.81" of rain. Still too wet to cut portions of the yard. Looks like CLE only had half of that amount. Most of the storms just missed CLE to the South and East.

While we haven't seen much smoke in a few weeks, with a return to more of a northwesterly flow pattern, some smoke and haze aloft is evident on visible satellite imagery this morning across southern parts of Canada, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern lower Michigan. Shouldn't be a huge deal but the HRRR-Smoke does show some elevated levels of near surface smoke for northeast North Dakota and far northern Minnesota later today.

I guess Bubb wouldn’t be watering his grass this week. just picked up a trailer of much to keep me busy this weekend. Got to spread mulch while the sun is shining 66 degrees for the low this morning.

Looks like we have a cat 5 coming up the coast.

Damn, I need a good heavy rain like that down here. only .5 spread out over more than 12 hours.

They do, Brian and I were just mentioning how infrequent it is now.

Mainly southern rains the next few hours till late morning.