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I mean it's a really good thing for the fertility rate to go down in some of these countries. The extremely high and horrible rates of air pollution in India are both because of an extremely high population and widespread use of vehicles. There's horror stories coming out of there of people having constant headaches and burning eyes every day because the air pollution is so bad and the only time they were able to see the mountains was during the pandemic. The projections say that with lower air pollution the life expectancy in India would be 12 years more.... that's very sad and very scary.

wow how cold did it get down here last May? we've been having a lot of these since 2020.

Wouldn't it be funny if it was so hot that JFK even hit 100 with a sea breeze? If Newark got to 114 JFK would definitely hit 100 even on a southerly breeze.

Good riddance to the rain-- it should only rain every 10 days

Good point! Burn on! I actually don't mind fires unless they burn down someone's house or hurt someone. Brush fires are natural and should occur.

the problem with late season freezes and frosts is also about perennials that bloom early because of unseasonal warm weather that happened earlier and then they get damaged by the out of season freezes and frosts

why doesn't someone get rid of this stuff? it's an eyesore anyway

Chris is this it for the cold weather or will it come back again after this warmup?

I have a question that seems like it should have a simple answer but it probably doesn't. Why is it that it's still relatively easy to get into the upper 30s and sometimes even mid 30s in mid to late April and once in awhile even early May, but our last freezing temperatures are still occurring in late March now? Talking about the airports and close in suburbs like western Long Island. Why haven't we seen any freezing temperatures happen after 4/15 with all these late season cold outbreaks we've had since 2020? When was the last time one of the city airports or the Park had a low of freezing or below after 4/15? After 4/20?

and they are owned by IBM a corporate tyrant, who also bought WeatherUnderground and started charging people large sums of money to upload data from PWS.

There is ONE benefit to fossil fuels and it's a very interesting one. Lower fertility being linked to fossil fuels. Wrap your head around that one.... It would be some kind of poetic justice if people couldn't have kids anymore because of fossil fuels LOL

That's a condemnation on the sustainability of society more than anything. Especially plastic-- which are now being found in our own bodies. I wonder when people finally realize that the end of humanity is coming, how they will think. Species usually peak just before there's a huge population crash. I can envision our population being cut by 90% by 2100.

They even talked about it last year citing the high death toll in Europe from heat waves (I think the heat waves get named there?)

it's a gimmick now, mostly for gardeners and travel. They should rename it to The Recreational Channel.

Just wait until TWC starts naming heatwaves lol

TWC will start naming heatwaves soon.

So May 9, 2020 was the latest that snow has been recorded at JFK, Don?

I remember my tomato plants were damaged during a heavy frost we had on May 13, 1996. That was my latest frost here on the south shore. And that was on a Monday, I spent the weekend in the Poconos were it snowed and caused tree damage after a severe weather outbreak! That was my latest snowfall and it came after our best winter ever. I enjoyed May 9, 2020 much more. I would wait for the week before Memorial Day weekend to plant anything sensitive.

It might be around the time that LGA recorded their latest trace of snow, which I believe was near Memorial Day in 1964? For Newton or Sparta I'd look at records from Sussex, NJ (KFWN?)

May 9, 2020 goes into the same category as February 14, 2016. Extreme cold islands surrounded by an ocean of warmth. October 2011 snowstorm and January 2016 snowstorm fit into this too.

It was strange to get that after such a mild and nearly snowless winter. Aside from that cold and snow on May 9th that period had literally nothing in common with 1976-77 lol. It's so strange how two radically different periods can sometimes have the same general kind of weather on the exact same day lol. The April 1976 to April 2002 comparison fits into this category too. Both Aprils had major heatwaves with almost the exact same high temperatures on almost the exact same days! But the summers that followed were radically different!

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/westside/article_06ec8ba2-cbe3-11e7-a0b3-abf774bd3130.html https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/westside/article_06ec8ba2-cbe3-11e7-a0b3-abf774bd3130.html Proposed Shintech Louisiana expansion leaves some Iberville parish residents on edge https://www.propublica.org/article/how-louisiana-lawmakers-stop-residents-efforts-to-fight-big-oil-and-gas https://www.propublica.org/series/polluters-paradise Polluter’s Paradise Environmental Impact in Louisiana The petrochemical industry has grown in Louisiana, with more plants on the way, but the state’s environmental regulations haven’t kept up. https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse Air quality has improved for decades across the U.S., but Louisiana is backsliding. Our analysis found that a crush of new industrial plants will increase concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals in predominantly black and poor communities. https://projects.propublica.org/louisiana-toxic-air/ In a Notoriously Polluted Area of the Country, Massive New Chemical Plants Are Still Moving In https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_c30d4620-a1be-11e9-837c-13f09466bb79.html For massive new plants, Formosa wants OK to double amount of chemicals released into St. James Parish air https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse https://www.propublica.org/article/in-cancer-alley-toxic-polluters-face-little-oversight-from-environmental-regulators For massive new plants, Formosa wants OK to double amount of chemicals released into St. James Parish air In a Notoriously Polluted Area of the Country, Massive New Chemical Plants Are Still Moving In

This is worthy of a major billion dollar class action lawsuit https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse ST. GABRIEL, La. — Over a half-century, Hazel Schexnayder saw this riverside hamlet transformed from a collection of old plantations, tin-roofed shacks and verdant cornfields into an industrial juggernaut. By the early 1990s, she’d had enough of the towering chemical plants and their mysterious white plumes, the roadside ditches oozing with blue fluid, the air that smelled of rotten eggs and nail-polish remover, the neighbors suffering miscarriages and dying of cancer. “We were inundated with plants,” Schexnayder, now 87, said. “We didn’t need any more around here.” She and others began pushing back in 1993, and the following year, residents voted to turn their corner of unincorporated Iberville Parish into the city of St. Gabriel. They wanted sidewalks and other amenities, but more than that, they wanted some say over the chemical plants popping up in their backyards. While the newly created city was able to keep new plants out, the petrochemical pileup continued unabated beyond St. Gabriel’s borders. “I bet you money there are 20 plants right now just around St. Gabriel,” Schexnayder said, nearly twice as many as there were when the incorporation drive began. She’s not even close. There are now 30 large petrochemical plants within 10 miles of her house, most of them outside the city limits. Thirteen are within a 3-mile radius of her home. The nearest facility, only a mile away, is the world’s largest manufacturer of polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam. Stories of fed-up Louisianans like Schexnayder fighting back against corporate polluters have gotten worldwide media attention over the last year, as a raft of enormous new petrochemical facilities takes shape along the Mississippi River corridor. Much of the focus has been on the potential hazards posed by specific plants, including the $9.4 billion plastics factory that Formosa plans to build in St. James Parish and the long-standing Denka neoprene facility in St. John Parish, whose dangerous emissions were highlighted in an Environmental Protection Agency model that estimates cancer risk around chemical plants. Indeed, the stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is nicknamed “Cancer Alley” because of its concentration of petrochemical facilities.

I have the original report from the EPA. I'll send that to you There isn't that much of a difference between 50x and 86x because both way way are too high and EPA alleges racism occurring at the Louisiana DEP (and they're probably right.) This is a long report. https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-10/2022 10 12 Final Letter LDEQ LDH 01R-22-R6%2C 02R-22-R6%2C 04R-22-R6.pdf I also found this paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4360 There's also some related research about racism in Louisiana about how air pollution regulations and emissions of toxic chemicals is concerned. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022002281 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128190081000134 In the article they mention the town of Reserve Louisiana has that excessive risk of cancer. This is also mentioned in that 56 page EPA PDF I linked to earlier in the post. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancer-alley-reserve-louisiana-denka-plant-health-risk-higher-national-average-2019-07-24/ Reserve, Louisiana — In a Louisiana town of 10,000 people, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said there is some of the most toxic air in America. More than 100 petrochemical plants and refineries dot the corridor between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, often referred to as "cancer alley." The town of Reserve is right in the middle of it, and the cancer risk there is almost 50 times the national average, according to the EPA. Robert Taylor has lived there most of his 78 years. Even his family cemetery is surrounded by a refinery. He said his mom, sister, uncle and nephew all died of cancer. "As I stand here, it's overwhelming to me. All of my folks are here. I will eventually wind up here," he said. For decades, people in Reserve have had health problems ranging from dizziness and severe headaches to liver and lung cancer. Many believe a plant, hundreds of yards from some of their homes, is the source. The Denka Performance Elastomer plant, owned by DuPont until 2015, makes chloroprene, a chemical the EPA calls a "likely human carcinogen." Denka is the only plant in the country producing it.

So maybe we'll have an early May like we did in 2020?