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That’s a very long ride. Did you refuel on the way back? What size boat/engines?

yeah we really thought we had wasted the day until around 1 pm, when it laid down. i mean, ya gotta admit that was a long boat ride. raritan river to the arthur kill, kill van kull, ny harbor, east river through hell gate, and into the sound...and we still had to go a little distance in the sound as well. but it was still better than sitting at the gw bridge for 3 hours....or getting stuck on the cross bronx.

No. There's a different dynamic involved. Because the Arctic warms faster near the surface but the tropics warm more in the upper atmosphere, wind shear is increasing at cruising altitudes, leading to more clear-air turbulence

Does this have anything to do with the increase in turbulence?

Summer is def over in the Roan Highlands. Avg temp for the first 15 days of the month is 59.3. The last few days have been seasonably cool.

With rising temperatures, cloud formation is occurring at higher altitudes. Thinner, high clouds are becoming relatively more common. Those clouds are idea for allowing in solar radiation and then slowing its escape. The thick stratocumulus clouds are become less frequent, yet it is those clouds that block out a lot of incoming solar radiation. This data is consistent with paleoclimate records and more recent climate modeling.

The marine forecast have been crap all summer. It’s always windier and rougher than forecast

Awesome! Let's keep it going.

2022 was odd in that it ironically had the 10th highest Sept ACE of the current active era with way over the active era Sept avg ACE, but it also had the 3rd lowest ACE for Aug/Oct combined of the last 60 years behind only the super El Niños of 1997 and 1982.

Man everyone skunked thru Oct there. Gonna get ugly in fire season with dry leaves , warm to hot fall and wind

Hail to the King

Yeah that's in the back of my mind, but I think the distinction here is the much larger moisture envelope and ability of this one to keep up convection. Environment looks pretty favorable for development/intensification in the subtropics too, which worked well with Fernand.

ENS keep a re-loading a +EPO for the rest of the month. If nothing else were to factor in, that would keep the mild/warm temps in place.

Now 60/90: is the long drought about to be broken? Keep in mind though that 91L also made it to 60/90 along with strong model support and surprisingly never developed: Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 PM EDT Mon Sep 15 2025 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America: 1. Central Tropical Atlantic (AL92): A broad area of low pressure is located about midway between the Windward Islands and the coast of west Africa. This system is showing signs of organization, and is expected to move through a favorable environment for further development. A tropical depression or tropical storm is likely to form by the middle to latter part of this week while the system moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph over the central tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent. Forecaster Pasch

I give you guys credit for forecasting a lame tropical season, but the consensus was not at all for a hyper active season.

WB 18Z EURO....

18z skunks me into October. Under an inch for Aug and Sep combined would be pretty funny. I’m not sure CON has even done that.

Great shot

Clouds are one of the tricky variables that climate models haven't really nailed down yet. They can have cooling and warming effects.

I can recall an experiment performed on some material retrieved from the moon where it was heated intensely and vapor was liberated, captured and condensed into liquid water plenty of evidence for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial sources of the water present on the earth today : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_water_on_Earth

Definitely, plus either way we're cooked. With more clouds we have more insulation to retain heat at night with less clouds we have more sunlight to cook the earth during the day.

Even if that's true (I have no idea) I think it's low clouds that do the best job at cooling the surface. So if we are losing low clouds that's bad if you want to keep the Earth's temp from rising further.

But with higher evaporation rates would high and mid level clouds become more common, Don?

That's a good point. Also, I wonder if there are practical ways of mining for water in the subsurface (for example below the moon's surface and under the martian surface.)

Dry, sunny, and dusty...with early color continuing.