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Just saw got missed again overnight . Sturbridge with another one

80° here. I'd die for the '60s.

The fact that it was 84 up here in the sticks so to speak at 12:30am isn't almost nuts, it is nuts. 73/70 now.

EWR 88

Winds have turned offshore and jfks temp rose over night back to 87. There will be no relief at the beaches this morning. In fact beaches will potentially be the hottest places with a desert like feedback off the dry sand. I’ll be praying for the wind to flip back onshore in the afternoon. JFK may break its all time record today .

69.4°

So far, and probably still have about 2 more hours to go... but the low temp at DCA is 84

82/70 currently.

Logan is 83 for the low. Wow

Ewr obs yesterday are just sick Peak at 105 and bottom out at 84 89 at 4 am like Arizona but with dews

100 degrees yesterday was a record here. My wife’s car was reading 107 on her drive home yesterday afternoon. Ended up being 2.57” short of rain in June. Sounds like a hot one again today, with severe storms coming in the afternoon.

From this morning LWX AFD Record temperatures will continue through much of the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend. An upper ridge remains parked across a vast portion of the southeastern U.S. into the Tennessee/Ohio Valleys and Mid-Atlantic region. Lower tropospheric temperatures remain very anomalous and record breaking in nature. Of note, the 00Z IAD sounding reported an 850-mb temperature of 25.0 C which is not only the 3rd highest of all time, but breaks the daily record by over 4.0 C. Recent 00Z models show a subtle decrease in these 850-mb temperatures. However, based on yesterday`s observations, models have been slightly too cool with this layer of the atmosphere. Thus, see little reason to diverge from another hot forecast with widespread temperatures punching into the 98 to 102 degree range. Even during the writing of this discussion (~3 AM), a number of the warmer spots remain entrenched in the upper 70s to mid 80s. High dew points should also remain a fixture in the forecast with readings holding steady in the low/mid 70s. Although some boundary layer mixing could slightly lower such dew points, the combination of triple digit highs and low 70s dew points will easily crank heat indices to around 110F. Extreme Heat Warnings continue from 10 AM until 9 PM across a bulk of the Mid-Atlantic region. For those in the Blue Ridge, Alleghenies, and across the central Shenandoah Valley, heat indices around 100 to 104 degrees supports Heat Advisories today.

86/72 at 4am. HI 92

89 here at almost 4am is nuts lmao

88 here

2am and it's still 91 degrees..

Oh, I am not triggered at all. I know the main clowns on YouTube and other social media. Still, practice in calling them out w/ their methods can be a entertaining at times. Also, just sharing some critical thinking skills on "how to spot pseudoscience" and the like has value for ppl on the forum,

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Again, it is about balance and handling skepticism in the proper way. It can get out of control very quickly, as you noted mentioning conspiracies. As for the media, scaring ppl into watching I find unethical and counterproductive in the end. That's what it is -- all about for profit. It wasn't always this way. And just b/c "that's the way it is" does not mean you just accept it and act like everything is ok and will be fine. So many being put into a semi-permanent state of fear or "flight or flee" mode is not healthy. I purposely over time has cut back (de-expose) myself to the MSM, b/c even if you are resilient, confident, and understand why things the way they are, the relentless negativity and hype is distracting and will test those even those w/ the strongest mettle. Being reminded constantly of all the problems/issues in the world, how is that good? And communicating this to others who may have trouble handling it all, that is a good thing b/c understanding it at least will help to assuage stress/anxiety.

Just got back from Ocean City. It was a nice 84 degrees. On the boardwalk, there was a nice breeze. Sometimes warm, sometimes it felt like 70 degrees. Had to wrap up on the beach at 5:30pm at 81 degrees and a stiff chilly breeze. Got back home and 86 at 1am. Wow.

Must be some bad flooding west of Chicago

Blame the wildfire smoke as to why BDL did not hit 103!

Being overly skeptical also makes people seem like crack pot conspiracy theorists. It’s necessary to think. But when all people do is whine and complain about the media, etc, eventually they come across as nuts.

"Zygote?" LOL.

That's a good point, but the door swings both ways here. Repeating lies or gross exaggerations enough, people will start believing it. This results in the bandwagon fallacy (everyone is saying it, so it *must* be true!). Being skeptical is an invaluable tool. Not enough ppl IMHO use it, or more specifically, apply/handle it in the best (most balanced) way. So we often end up w/ the false dichotomy logical fallacy, believe everything or don't believe anything. Neither is good. How one presents data is paramount. Just posting random tidbits lacking detail or sources that more and more have AI-generated slop are rife these days and deserve to be called out. If one can recognize crap/nonsense/slop better, one will make better decisions and avoid being duped/scammed/brainwashed. There is one constant and fundamental issue that that makes the warming issue very enticing politically, socially, and economically. Touting the end of the world or civilization as we know it -- can you think of anything else more urgent and absolute than that to society? So riding that narrative sells easily and instills deep psychological fear in the population. In such a state, they can be molded/manipulated better. Claims the world is going to end due to AGW fits this category, and is why high skepticism and push back exists, b/c it is not so much about the science anymore, it is more about ideology/agenda/control. Having problems in general sense, real or imagined, unfortunately has been realized and abused in recent decades that there is enormous power and profit having such. Hence, where we are today. Nothing is scaled or put into proper context/perspective anymore. It's always "the worst ever" or "it was never like this before" or some variant.