LibertyBell

and two big heatwaves in July of 7+ days each, something we don't see anymore :-( We saw it happen one more time in 2002 and that was it.

A few years ago a deer fell into my pool at my other house in the Poconos and died and I had to call in the game warden to help remove the deer. Well long story short, removal of the deer was much easier than what happened the rest of that summer. A massive tick infestation, I found six ticks on my clothes that summer, I bought that chemical from Amazon that you're supposed to put on your clothes to keep them away but still had to change clothes after each time working in my garden and wash my gardening clothes in a bucket before taking them inside, etc. The ticks were of the small black variety and thankfully none of them got under my skin (literally), although one did manage to get into my hair but I removed it before it was able to do anything else. I found out later to leave food for opossums since they are the ticks' worst nightmare, they eat them like crazy.

we have to like it because it's much needed, Rob!

Highs:EWR: 99 (1999)NYC: 96 (1925) 94 in 1999 * / 2008LGA: 97 (1999)JFK: 92 (1999) 1999 had such a great summer, we didn't have all these darned ticks that year. Looks like this is when the heat got started that wonderful summer and today was a clean sweep for record highs that year.

I'm really worried about these ticks Rob, I see there's large numbers of them in parks here. It's going to be a bad season (it already is.) https://abc7ny.com/post/tick-season-officials-warn-bites-rise-provide-prevention-tips/16669279/ SMITHTOWN, Long Island (WABC) -- "Don't let a tick make you sick." That's the message doctors across the country are spreading after discovering that tick bites are on the rise. The CDC estimates 500,000 people in the U.S. will get Lyme disease this year, and all it takes is a single tick bite. Wildlife experts say, from what they are seeing, it could be a rough season.

Let me go on record as saying that 70 degrees 70 dew point and foggy with 100% humidity (which caused me to turn on my a/c before 7 am) is much much worse than 100 degrees with a 58 dew point and 25% humidity and sunshine, for which I would never have to turn on the a/c. With another tropically wet month coming up I'll be spraying for mosquitoes and other nasty bugs outside.

So it looks like June will be wet just like May was but with much higher humidity, so more like a tropical climate for us? I'm going to have to spray outside for mosquitoes and other bad bugs.

yeah this weather absolutely sucks, on came the a/c even before 7 am lol 100 degrees sunny and dew point of 58 with humidity of 25% is so much more comfortable than this.

what you're describing sounds a lot like 2004-05 that was the famous Messenger (RIP) winter when everything trended favorably for coastal snowstorms.

interestingly, in winters like 1993-94. 1995-96 and 2004-05 the models underdid snowfall.

paradoxically, CC may cause ocean effect snow to increase for the Cape and Islands?

Chris whats that giant High in eastern Canada doing in the first map, all that deep red up, what are the temperatures under that?

No showers here at all just foggy and 100% humidity and yucky 70 degrees. I don't know why some people go by the temperatures, 100 degrees with a 58 dew point and 25% humidity is MUCH more comfortable than this mess I turned on the air conditioner as soon as I woke up. No a/c needed with 100 degrees and 58 dew point and 25% humidity, this weather is so much worse!

omg, how do you and your poor dog deal with it? this seems to be a really bad season for ticks. I wonder if it's because of all the rain followed by very warm weather?

tick season is here we can't go to parks anymore they said a deer died at a park because over three dozen ticks attacked him and they even killed a mallard duck.... don't they have chemicals they can spray to kill all these ticks? Two things I want exterminated from the planet are ticks and mosquitoes they serve no purpose in nature except to hurt everything else so let's make them go extinct.

it's getting darker here

Usually in the form of one big storm. It has juiced up the atmosphere, which is why 2015-16 was snowier than 1982-83 although it was warmer too.

okay just one more lol

one more

high temps were a few hours ago, on the south shore we peaked in the low 80s around 11 am

on the camera LCD live view this giant sunspot group looked like a large ant moving around on the sun.

wow thats pretty wild, that sunspot group near the middle is probably the one that caused the solar storm a few days ago and the resulting northern lights display. Here's one of mine from last year in May

Yep we were in the low 80s here at 10 am and have stayed there lol

it was even longer than that, 2002-03 through 2004-05 and 2009-10 through 2014-15 too