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How much light does it block though? We can still see the stars through haze and smoke as long as it's not completely obnoxious like what we had in June 2023.

Geomag storm level 4 viewable down to the Carolinas and Alabama

Tony, so last year NYC did not have a foliage problem.... both NYC and LGA had the same number (21) of 90+ days?

I want to see JFK beat NYC

Food in France and Italy is much better but that's a different story, they don't use the crap artificial ingredients we use and are also healthier overall.

True facts!

Look at the bill. 2/3rds is not electricity cost. At least. They get their money or the lights go out.

Yeah nice deep blue skies, some bubble-up cu. A bit breezy but not bad.

and let's not dismiss the corruption of the aptly named *Con* Edison, these companies need to be closely regulated and monitored and prosecuted as soon as they go off the rails, as that company has done throughout its sordid history.

NY isn’t off fossil fuels by any means, we just buy it from elsewhere. We produce clean energy - but thats not what we use by and large. NY has utterly lost control of energy prices despite having one of the largest last untapped clean energy sources in the US. The propaganda is if the smoke came out of a stack in another state, it didn’t happen. We believe it nonetheless. France has 60+ reactors running, with over 70% of their electricity production. Amazing. Why cant we be like France. Nice food too. They are also the closest country in the free world to a fusion reactor apparently. I think nuclear return to the US though in a relatively short time in many states (never here). We just need to find scientists who will leave their countries and work here. We don’t have strong nuclear programs in universities anymore. (We do have strong gender studies programs though). The only nuclear engineers we have work in the Navy and they will be busy fighting China in a few years.

Another beautiful spring day. downslope persistence ftw.

We watched your bus full of campers struggling up the hill. Max weight capacity exceeded . Foot on pedal in drive and it’s going backwards SSB

it's also cloudy now

Smoke lifting north as trof / upper level low lifts out. Elevated and diluted smoke reaching into SNJ this morning.

Wonderful day here. Again. sorry guy GWDLT. Downslope FTW is the theme.

The main issue with the 2013-2014 analog was that this past year was -EPO driven than -WPO, but if you compare H5 composites, there were plenty of similarities due to the fairly favorable extra tropical Pacific. 2012-2013 acted more like a warm ENSO event, with a mild December and a very active February/March.

Thank you!

You're completely dismissing the inherent corruption and greed of these corporations that need to be directly regulated and overseen by the state. we need state ownership of power companies pure and simple. *Con* Edison and the failed Lilco have shown that these companies can't be trusted.

43 degrees this morning to open June. Great sleeping weather with the windows open and the breeze blowing. About to come to an end. Not expecting an overnight low of 43 again until the Fall.

In the record books there are several examples of record hot streaks that haven't been matched since, I just listed the two most glaring examples. 1955 had the most 95+ days. 1949 had 5 days of 99 degrees or higher. 1948 had three days of 100 degrees or higher even at JFK. There is something unique about this period that hasn't been matched since. 2010 was absolutely amazing and set the JFK records for several categories but didn't have a super heatwave like that. It looks like 2002 was the last time we had one of those.

I watched radar.

Overnight low of 43 degrees. Windows were open, breeze blowing. Great sleeping weather for the opening of June. Won't last much longer. Had an additional .19" of rain last 24 hours. Event total was 3.05".

Walt, this is going to be a level 4 Geomagnetic storm, I read that aurorae viewing is possible down to the Carolinas and Alabama. Even if you can't see them you can still capture them with your camera.

I would suggest that you stop speaking in absolutes and folks would probably be more receptive to these theories.

Oh yeah. Have to add up the increments…always fun with the snow cores and melting down the snow and subtracting out what you add in…sometimes 3”+. I just didn’t want to mess with it while it was actively raining…hence asking PF for the estimate since VT likes to do rainstorms in inches and not tenths. lol