LibertyBell

humidity is MUCH worse than heat

I'm not sure there is anyone who actually wants severe weather. It's best where no human structures exist.

it's been nice and sunny ever since I woke up at 6:30 am here.

we need that over here!

No because the sulfates are modeled by simulations to dry out the monsoon seasons and move them further south. With wind circulations the way they are that drier air from the SW would be transported here. I like hotter day time highs and lower night time lows, in other words, more extremes. I'm not sure it would function like Pinatubo did because this involves a much lower amount of particle injection plus it would have to be redone every year.

The mute swans are gorgeous though I've seen them in Queens too at Alley Pond Park

wow I haven't seen the giant great blue heron yet!!

the sun is starting to come back out now....

I love Hempstead Lake State Park and the wonderful swans that nest there!

fwiw if we start dumping sulfates into the atmosphere like we probably will by 2030, it's going to make the climate cooler (or stabilize it) and drier.

they're going to be wrong like they always are, wet and dry go in cycles, we'll have some record drought again just like we had in the 60s. Remember they were predicting an average of 3 100 degree days every year by the year 2045

don't need them or want them anyway, a little light rain and thunder before the sun comes out is just fine :-)

I know about Hempstead Lake State Park but Valley Stream has always just been a run down semi urban area with Green Acres Mall to me.

we have a state park around here? There was a monstrous gypsy moth invasion in the Poconos in the 90s.

thats wild about the average high temperature for the entire summer being 90 degrees omg, what was JFK's highest-- 2010 followed by 1983 and 2002?

Yeah our summers have become disappointingly cooler and rainier.

Yeah in the CWA perhaps but when talking about the state as a whole, places like Milville and Trenton are hotter.

I mean I'm not a supporter of massive population growth either, I would like the population to stabilize. Also, large cities with high population densities definitely are not healthy. The companies you speak of are corrupt, they want lax environmental regulations, and don't care if the air and water are unhealthy. Remember what DuPont did in West Virginia, dumping millions of gallons of PFOAs in their waterways? And you can't even speak out against fossil fuels down there, they will firebomb your car or your house, university professors get ostracized or even fired for talking about it. Jimmy Carter was a physicist so you know he was really smart, the problem is the voter base is not smart. He installed solar panels on the White House (which Reagan tore down.)

The severe tstorms were because of the heat and riots and violence in general has been directly connected to extreme temperatures. We see it every year here, as soon as it gets really hot the crime rate goes way up lol. The biggest antidote to crime is cold weather, in the winter when it's cold and snows a lot, the crime rate goes way down.

lol you were not here in 1977, I know how bad it was, we even had a massive power outage and riots because of the extreme heat. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/night-new-yorks-lights-went-out/#:~:text=Morning broke hot and humid,rate was at 12 percent. Morning broke hot and humid over New York on July 13, 1977, at the outset of what became one of the longest heat waves in the city’s history: The temperature would top 100 degrees three times over the next nine days. Heat wasn’t the only stressor that summer. The unemployment rate was at 12 percent. Subway fares had jumped from 35 to 50 cents. Crime was way up: Over the previous decade, the rates of murders, assaults and car thefts had more than doubled, the rate of burglary had more than tripled and robberies were up by a factor of 10. The city was deep into a fiscal crisis that led to dramatic cuts in social services—including hospital and library closures and massive layoffs of firefighters, police, public school teachers and sanitation workers—which placed additional pressure on the residents who needed city services the most. A severe thunderstorm turned this volatile situation into a flashpoint. At 8:37 p.m. in neighboring Westchester County, lightning hit two high-voltage lines at a major power plant. Two more major lines on the Con Edison power system, which serviced eight million people in the greater New York metropolitan area, were struck at 8:56 p.m. A cascade of power outages throughout the system, over the course of just an hour, led to its total collapse. By 9:40 p.m. all five boroughs of the city were plunged into darkness. The economic and social frustrations that had steadily been building boiled over. Widespread looting, unrest and arson broke out in the poorest neighborhoods. Over the next 24 hours, 1,600 stores were damaged, 1,000-plus fires were reported and more than 3,700 people were arrested. Economic damages reached well into the hundreds of millions of dollars. By the time day dawned on July 15, Con Ed’s system was back online, and New York’s residents tried to resume the rhythms of daily life amid broken glass and embers. But they sensed, already, that their city was drastically changed by the night the lights went out. One year later, a special commission established to study the blackout tried, without success, to fully capture its impact. “The social costs of the blackout,” the commission noted in its summary report, “are difficult to measure.”

I don't look at summers in terms of average temperatures, they don't mean anything to me. It had the greatest 2 week period of heat we have ever seen including the second highest temperature ever recorded at NYC 104 and 3 days of 100+ The heat was so bad in 1977 that we had a massive power outage in July. Don't use average temperatures for anything, they don't show the details.

Maybe the sunshine we have now will keep it energized. It was very foggy early today but it's cleared out nicely.

Big storms in Scranton-Wilkes Barre area, Tony! Any storm damage reports yet?

Yes, I'm looking for that to occur in 11 year cycles, the next time would be in the 2032-34 period. Note these summers: 1933, 1944, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1988, 1999, 2010. 2021 didn't live up to expectations but 2022 did so maybe it's slightly more than 11 years lol. At any rate, the next period to look at would be 2032-2034.

but it's sunny here right now and looks nice :-) I see the rain is now forecast to come in earlier, Yesterday they were saying Thursday today they are saying Wednesday? Does this mean it will clear up in time for Memorial Day?