LibertyBell

Yep, nothing heavy and it will be all finished before sunset and the sun could even peek out around 7 this evening. It might be a nice sunset. I hope you feel better JM, bugs suck, but especially this time of year.

we had some sunshine here earlier (you can see the break in the clouds over Long Island.)

It looks like the only days it will rain are Saturday and Tuesday, with mostly cloudy tomorrow and Monday. Finally a nice dry stretch with warmer weather will begin on Wednesday. I don't buy the euro unless other models agree with it.

I wonder if there is a way to look at local temp data from around the area like we look at snowfall data for the March 1888 blizzard and see that southern Brooklyn got 26 inches and northern Queens got 32 inches. As an example, in July 1966, JFK hit 104 and LGA hit 107, while Newark was only 105 and NYC only hit 103. I wonder why this happened in such a dry summer? July 1966 still holds the heat records for both JFK and LGA. in July 2011 JFK got to 103 and LGA got to 104, same as NYC.

There's a 6-8 day cycle for rain/snow We need a multiweek dry period to reset the cycle.

it's finally raining here YAY-- NOT

You are not alone in this affliction my friend =\

I have wild turkeys there too but they travel around a lot, I'll try to attract more of them lol

The sun is coming out!

This is probably why I felt so ill today. I had my a/c on for 6 hours but shut it off just now because now I feel cold lol. Interestingly, high humidity affects me more late at night and early in the morning. Not in the middle of the day or the afternoon.

Found this, not so sure how accurate it is, but it's interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1epkptr/central_park_ny_highest_maximum_temperature_f/ That 106° reading was on 07/09/1936 during the incredible 1936 heatwave that effected most of the US from the Midwest to the east coast. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in NYC. In those days the official weather bureau temperature was measured at the old Battery Maritime Building near Battery Park where it was always a little cooler due to it's proximity to the water. So the actual temperature in midtown may have been more like 112° if not higher. My mother remembered that heat wave and said that people left their tenement windows open during the day even if they were at work. A very different city then.

I remember there was a sharp cut off near Philly, I would no longer have any hair left if I had to go through that south of there.

I wanted to share something, not sure how accurate this is, but I found this while looking up big heat https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1epkptr/central_park_ny_highest_maximum_temperature_f/ That 106° reading was on 07/09/1936 during the incredible 1936 heatwave that effected most of the US from the Midwest to the east coast. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in NYC. In those days the official weather bureau temperature was measured at the old Battery Maritime Building near Battery Park where it was always a little cooler due to it's proximity to the water. So the actual temperature in midtown may have been more like 112° if not higher. My mother remembered that heat wave and said that people left their tenement windows open during the day even if they were at work. A very different city then.

Yes and sadly enough this more humid and warmer climate with less 95 and 100 degree days is actually much worse. I've noticed it makes breathing more difficult for me. I looked up July 9, 1993 which was a very hot day where I live (south shore of Long Island), at JFK it was 100 degrees with a dew point of 58 and humidity of 25%. I had no problems being outside gardening, mowing my lawn, etc that day. I noticed I find it much more difficulty on a day like today, temperatures in the 70s with 100% humidity. I noticed that although 90 and 95 degree days have flatlined here (not going higher) 85 degree days are increasing. So we're getting more days with a high of 85-89 and lows of 70-75+..... I think this is going to cause many more health issues than our *old climate* when we had highs of 90-95+ and lows in the 50s and 60s.

Note this doesn't mean ACC is not occurring, of course it is, it's just that it's nuanced in terms of how in the summer it's much more driven by higher minima. In winter it's driven by both. Record 95+ streak for NYC, the last one was in 2002 =\ I miss my extreme heat summers....

Some of our longest 95+ streaks, the last one was in 2002.

it looks like the sun is trying to come out here, thankfully

But not two 7+ day streaks in one summer since 2002. Also found this regarding Central Park https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2013/07/new-yorks-lengthiest-heat-waves.html A heat wave, at least in the Northeast, is defined by the National Weather Service as three days in a row with high temperatures of 90° or hotter. They occur, on average, about twice each summer. However, this post is interested in "big boy" heat waves, i.e., those lasting seven days or longer. Since records began in 1872 there have been just twenty-two, with one occurring about every seven years. The seven-day heat wave of July 2013 broke a ten-year streak without one (and there hasn't been one of this length since).

The small black ticks are the worst and they're the ones that cause Lyme disease. A deer fell into my pool and died a few years ago and I found six of those ticks on my clothes that summer and got that tick repellant chemical from Amazon to put on my clothes, but I was changing my clothes in my garage every day I worked in my garden and washing those garden clothes in a bucket in my driveway outside every day. I did some research and found out that the tick's best natural enemy is an opossum, they eat those things like crazy so now I always leave food out for them.

https://www.weather.gov/okx/heatwaves Longest Heat Waves - 90 degrees + in a row (through March 10) Days Dates Temperatures 91,91,91,94,98,99,98,100,97,102,94,90 92,97,97,93,96,97,93,92,90,98,90 98,100,101,102,97,94,94,91,90,90 90,94,92,97,95,98,94,96,93,90 92,96,98,95,92,93,94,94,94 93,92,96,98,97,100, 102,92,104 91,93,91,91,91,94,99,101,95 93,94,91,94,92,91,93,93,91 96, 95, 95, 96, 97, 90, 92, 91 91, 92, 91, 94, 93, 94, 96, 95 98, 95, 98, 94, 95, 94, 96, 93 97, 102, 97, 96, 95, 95, 96, 95 91,91,93,95,95,100,100,94 93, 93, 91, 94, 96, 90,96 93, 93, 95, 94, 96, 99, 97 90, 93, 96, 99, 96, 100, 102 94, 93, 94, 98, 96, 93, 97 94, 95, 96, 93, 94, 94, 93 98, 100, 90, 95, 100, 97, 93 92, 97, 100, 101, 91, 90, 90 https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2013/07/new-yorks-lengthiest-heat-waves.html A heat wave, at least in the Northeast, is defined by the National Weather Service as three days in a row with high temperatures of 90° or hotter. They occur, on average, about twice each summer. However, this post is interested in "big boy" heat waves, i.e., those lasting seven days or longer. Since records began in 1872 there have been just twenty-two, with one occurring about every seven years. The seven-day heat wave of July 2013 broke a ten-year streak without one (and there hasn't been one of this length since).

No thats not all of it, climate change doesn't mean higher highs here in the northeast, at least in the areas where we live. It's not about *sensors running warmer* I lived through the 1991, 1993, 1999, 2002 great summers when we had 100 degree days. I measured the heat myself and it was more excessive than what we see now. Cities like PHL, NYC, JFK are on record lack of 100 day streaks now. It's because *climate change* does not mean *global warming* not every place is experiencing higher temperatures, especially higher maxima. In the winter sure, it's getting warmer, but the summer-- not so much. The averages are getting somewhat higher yes, but that is driven by higher minima, extreme heat is being blunted by more rainfall. You can see this with how heatwaves are much shorter than they were back in the period I referenced, with drier hotter summers in the 90s up to 2002 we had much longer heatwaves. 2002 was our last summer with two 7+ day heatwaves and we have not seen 100 degrees here since 2013, and this record applies to all three cities.

Philly, NYC, JFK all have record lack of 100 day streaks right now.

if we go by number of 90 degree days probably less hot but this is bound to change at some point and we will return to our hot summers from the 90s once again

In 1993-94 and 1995-96 and 2004-05 they were not snowy enough (at least for the northeast).

No I'm just going by the Longest Heatwaves page the NWS maintains for NYC, I don't know what heatwaves JFK had that year except for the amazing 102 degrees we hit out here right after the 4th of July! According to that page NYC last 7+ day heatwave was in 2002 and 2002 was also the last year to have two heatwaves of that length (well of course since it was also the last time they had one 7+ day heatwave lol.)