LibertyBell

Don't think the climate has been stable for thousands of years, the 1700s and 1800s were extremely wild with temperature swings. I'm not even sure how we would deal with a repeat of 1917-18, that must have been truly horrendous.

That's sad, there wasn't any kind of breeze here today. Must have been right at the airport.

and Myrtle Beach too!! HECS for Myrtle Beach, Cape Hatteras and Virginia Beach up to Norfolk!!

the pure blue sky and no haze was the best part of today

Sure, but some of the mass migrations we're seeing now are linked to failed harvests (like the one in Central America.) There's a multiyear drought going on down there.

saw lots of butterflies and dragonflies I love this weather with the clear deep blue skies

JFK also above 80, Don? I recorded 82 here at 2:30 pm

we can't reasonably forecast temperatures more than 7 days out.

Hot summers on that list include 1993, 1991, 2011, 2010, 2002, 1983, 1949

I agree if this resulted in positive change, however it seems like no matter who we elect the changes that we need are happening too slowly. Granted with better politicians at least we wouldn't be backtracking. But every politician has pretty much endorsed an *all of the above* approach. Under both Obama and Biden we greatly expanded drilling.

I'm not sure how much the public actually matters, Don. The people we should be going after are the oligarchs that run our political systems, they are the ones who control what happens.

I love bright sunny days with deep blue skies so I'm happy. The contrast between today and later in the week when we again have deep blue skies but much cooler weather will be very interesting.

Don would people have been able to walk from Long Island to Connecticut and vice versa?

that was a very exciting winter in 2014-15 and in general a very exciting period between 2009 and 2018.

Thanks Don, as I remember them I believe December 2015 was the most strongly positive deviation of my lifetime in the winter and December 1989 was the most strongly negative. So going back to the 1976-77 winter at least?

in a so-called *communist* dictatorship like China, how is big coal putting up a fight? sounds very crapitalistic to me!

cleaner air could also mean warmer air because of less solar blockage with particulates.

Politically though they are unstable, with an extreme right wing element there as well as for some reason backing away from nuclear and returning to coal.

Records: High: EWR: 87 (2014) NYC: 88 (1881) LGA: 84 (2014) JFK: 82 (1948) Lows: EWR: 38 (1947) NYC: 41 (1947) LGA: 42 (1947) JFK: 44 (1989) 1989 - Thunderstorms over northeastern Florida drenched Jacksonville with 4.28 inches of rain between midnight and 6 AM EDT. Unseasonably cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. Five cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Binghamton NY with a reading of 30 degrees. Morning lows were in the 20s in northern New England. Unseasonably mild weather prevailed in the northwestern U.S., with afternoon highs in the upper 70s and 80s. In Oregon, Astoria reported a record high of 83 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) Interesting variance between this winters Lots of snow in 1947 and 2014 after record heat on this date Record cold in 1989 which continued with some volatility right through December then record warmth January through March lol.

it felt like a sauna this morning, I've had my a/c on since the middle of the night and even with it on it felt like a sauna

Yes the planet has a cap about how hot it can get, that's why even with climate change, Death Valley has never gotten hotter than 130 degrees (confirmed).

How many standard deviations for a month like December 2015 vs one like February 2015 Don? And December 1989? The departures were similar but in opposite directions.

Depends on what you mean by winter. If you mean 40s and rain.....

Over the top heat though. They've been hot all summer.

Thursday would have been much better than this nonstorm tonight. While in theory rain sounded like a good idea tonight, in reality when you get light rain like this at night it really sucks. It just makes the air more uncomfortable and much more humid and I've been up all night with a stuffy nose and sneezing. I'm about to turn on my air conditioning. A dry cool night with temperatures in the 50s is FAR superior to this. I hope the next time it rains it's when we get a noreaster. Either that or a strong frontal passage with cool dry weather behind it. Not this nonsense of a nonstorm. This is nothing but a godawful humidity pump.