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  1. One other thing I have seen and maybe you can comment on Chris, is much rainier summers since 2002 leading to overgrowth of foliage. We aren't supposed to be this green in the summer, we're not in a tropical rain forest (or at least aren't supposed to be.) Our climate was much drier in 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002. Our normal summer pattern is to have sunshine 6 out of every 7 days with a few hours of showers and thunderstorms one day every week. Now, we get stalled fronts and multiple days of rain (like yesterday and today). In our hotter summers, the Bermuda ridge is supposed to be strong enough to keep all fronts well to our west and north and very little rain in July. That's been my experience living here. What caused this to change that now fronts stall in our area-- as if we live in Florida? Our climate has become like the Gulf Coast, where they do get fronts but the fronts stall out and you get days of rain. It's okay to get 2 days of rain after a 100+ degree heatwave but we didn't have that over the weekend, we had a very modest heatwave and we still have to deal with a stalled front in July? Why? Growing up, this never happened here when we had a normal hot summer.
  2. That was the year thousands of people died in the MW, especially near Chicago.
  3. This matches my memory of 1993 being the last year when we had good data coming out of Central Park. I noticed that wind speeds, snowfall and temperature data were lower quality after that. Do you think using ASOS itself also has something to do with the poor data or is it purely a siting issue? I also see lower quality wind reports and precip type reports coming out of there.
  4. But average temperatures <> extreme temperatures I would much rather have higher highs than have average temperatures increase. The differences between our highs and lows seems to be becoming less.
  5. Well, instead of closing it, why didn't they actually move the equipment downtown, where people actually live and work? The 160 years of data, I don't see that as important as the climate has changed so much that what happened during the 1800s and early 1900s is now completely irrelevant.
  6. Why did they leave to go to Upton and more to the point why were they allowed to leave? I consider parks no better than zoos, they are an artificial *natural* entity created inside a concrete jungle. If one wants to see nature one should visit a forest. I don't see the conservation movement as being helpful when it comes to parks at all, in the same way I don't see the confinement of animals in zoos as being natural either.
  7. Maybe we are cycling back to longer and more intense heatwaves in the East now..... it's frustrating for all those records to be from the 40s and 50s and 60s and for a few years in the 90s. We need to end the corn and soy subsidies in the MW, those crops ramp up the humidity.
  8. Maybe that was the reason for some of the scorching summers we had in the 40s and 50s (that and all the nuke testing.) I know this idea has been floated around to explain the extremely hot summers of 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955.
  9. I'm glad we are finally getting a real hot summer here. I can do without all this rain though, I can't stand how bugs overpopulate in the rain.
  10. with the extreme heat we had already in June (matching and even exceeding 2010), I'm optimistic about a -NAO next winter.
  11. I don't know man, we've had massive flooding and a lightning strike just burned down a house near here tonight. I like my summers dry, wet summers mean more bugs and then I have to spray pesticides everywhere to kill them off.
  12. I'm glad we exceeded 100 even with the wetter weather.
  13. no that corn and soybean crap makes it much worse, increasing the humidity and turning the region into a sauna.
  14. 23-24 was a super el nino? I thought our last one was in 15-16?
  15. wow lightning struck a house about two towns away from me and it caught fire and burned down a three story house!!!
  16. Looks like we're finally kicking the rain on the weekend habit, nice dry stretch just in time for the 4th and the long weekend.
  17. 89 is a real eyesore. Why doesn't someone at the NWS perform an automatic adjustment to account for poor siting? I see them do it for bad snowfall amounts all the time.
  18. These 89s are becoming real eyesores lol
  19. Yep, let the Europeans and Canadians take over, they do everything better anyway.
  20. I wonder when they still start shutting down ASOS.
  21. Interesting that these are so recent, namely 5/22/2021 and 6/17/2022 94 at JFK on both days and 88-89 at Central Park
  22. Yep, but it's just one month. We'll see how the rest of the summer plays out and if it ranks with the all time greats. It has to continue on the trajectory of 2010 for it to do so. Otherwise it's just a one month blip. I have very high standards when it comes to summer heat.
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