LibertyBell

I love that show.... one can only dream. I remember the protagonist in one of Stephen Spielberg's movies saying that we'll have world unity only when we find intelligent alien life and then we'll all realize human beings are all part of a single global family.

What causes the ridge axis to be so far to the east? Doesn't that mean the Bermuda High is weaker? You'd think that if the Bermuda High was extremely strong it would extend much farther to the west.... like how strong low pressure systems tend to move further to the west? With reference to tropical season usually when we have really strong Bermuda Highs TCs like the type I described tend to move due west and hit Florida or the Gulf.

JFK has more 90 degree days to this point of any summer since 2010 though and still has 50% more 90 degree days than Central Park lol This isn't what I would consider a hot July, it's only slightly warmer than normal. There has been only one truly hot day this month.

The only thing I can realistically compare it to is the December 1992 noreaster in terms of how intense it was and how long it lasted. The 1990s were chock full of extreme weather the likes of which we have not experienced since!

This was the most intense and extreme heatwave I've ever experienced, both extreme in duration and intense in how long peak triple digit heat lasted. Most of the posters who didn't experience 1993 have no idea what kind of heat we had back then and have never experienced anything like it in our area!

Wow that's absolutely amazing Chris... is that the Bermuda High centered over SE PA? That's the equivalent of Sandy making landfall in S NJ, you rarely if ever see a track and position like that. Did the same thing happen in 1999 and 2002 during the very long heatwaves in those years too?

Just referring to New York City and Long Island since I remember 1988 where the heat was focused west of us. We never hit 100 here in 1988 and we had shorter heatwaves that were interrupted by a lot of back door fronts. 1988 is not listed on the NYC longest heatwaves page nor is it high up on the 90+ day summer list, but years like 1993, 1999 and 2002 are prominently featured. As I remember it, 1993 specifically had a heat ridge that held up fronts in the Midwest and Mississippi River Valley, which is why that area had historic flooding while we had endless summer.

Yep, like a few years ago. This July is probably going to turn out only slightly above normal, not a bakeoff July like some of the historic summers we've had.

It's definitely a human nature thing not a US vs rest of the world thing. The fossil fuel cartels are large multinational corporations and they hold sway over most of the world's governments -- this is why you see their lobbyists even at UN climate conventions. If you want to see real decisive action against climate change (or against anything else that is a problem in society today), you need to ban corporate lobbyists completely just like we did with big tobacco lobbyists. And corporate lobbying is a global problem that extends far beyond this country. I realized that when I started reading stories coming out of the UK about judges imprisoning peaceful climate change activists, including college professors and climate scientists at the behest of fossil fuel companies. The judges put these scientists and professors in prison even before they went on trial (if there even was a trial) as a way to silence them from protesting. They were released in a few days to a few weeks, kept in prison long enough to try to teach them a lesson not to protest.

it's very mixed because unfortunately it also means more bugs and dangerous ones like mosquitoes and ticks and a longer and more severe allergy season.

Interesting to see Malaysia way up on this list. Didn't know they had a high fossil fuel consumption, I do know about their deforestation efforts and corrupt palm oil plantations (similar to Indonesia.)

Definitely not. The old forecast of cloudy Saturday and partly sunny Sunday might work out after all.

But when we had heatwaves back in years like 1993 and 1999 that lasted 7-11 days, was that because the Bermuda high was strong enough to hold back fronts to our west instead of letting them stall over the area leading to all this cloudy weather, Chris?

Some of us make a large mix and variety of posts, from weather to climate to sports etc lol-- it keeps things interesting

Looks like those forecasts for sunshine didn't work out. The plague of the stalled front because the Bermuda High isn't strong enough to keep the fronts well to our west.