LibertyBell

So nice to have lower humidity today with mostly sunny skies here, I was outside for lunch and it felt absolutely wonderful.

This sticky stuff is far worse. I could see a return to a drier pattern with sulfate particle release into the atmosphere-- that's what the climate models predict would happen anyway, cooler and drier. But cooler and drier doesn't mean it won't return to higher high temperatures in summer like we had in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 90s.

it doesn't look wasteful to me, it's being powered by the kinetic energy of humans moving.

Well, that's good because I hate high humidity. Getting rid of this excessive rainfall and returning to a hot and dry normal summer pattern like we had in the 90s is perfect.

Maybe we'll do what Dubai has done with installing air conditioning under their streets. https://luxurylaunches.com/travel/dubai-urban-highway.php Dubai is building a 58-mile-long air-conditioned highway for walking and cycling. The humungous structure will be powered by kinetic flooring that will harness energy from the footsteps of runners and walkers.

I think it'll be mandatory to have various forms of cooling, I'm looking at 30-50 years in the future. If we do indeed have a Florida like climate at that point. Maybe we'll do what Dubai has done with installing air conditioning under their streets. https://luxurylaunches.com/travel/dubai-urban-highway.php Dubai is building a 58-mile-long air-conditioned highway for walking and cycling. The humungous structure will be powered by kinetic flooring that will harness energy from the footsteps of runners and walkers.

Not really I imagine every home and apartment will have air conditioning long before then. I imagine air conditioning will become more important than heating your home by then.

It was still a very hot summer though as it set the NYC record for 90 degree days and that three day stretch of 100+ was extremely memorable. I lived through that 10 day heatwave in NYC and I haven't felt so much heat before or since then.

Hopefully with your projected 3C of warming, JFK and EWR will see 100 degree temps a few times every summer even with onshore flow. Do you think a time will come when we could hit 100 degrees even on a southerly wind?

There are places in Florida near the coast that see 100 degree temps-- see Jacksonville.

Do you think the 1993 Newark numbers might be cooked? Take a look at their 90, 95 and 100 degree numbers. On most lists 1993, 2010 and 2022 are the three hottest summers there, I lived through 1993 it was the first time I was forced to use air conditioning, it was unbearably hot.

Yes, this is why I always say we should define normal as within one standard deviation, rather than a single *average* number. Don't get me started on that, TCC and I both hate that word *average* lol.

if we get this 3C of warming, JFK will hit 100 degrees every summer, regardless of onshore flow. Chris.

Thanks for this list, I hadn't been able to find a list for any of the airports, only the one for Central Park. 1953 tops them all at every station and it's interesting that it lasted into September. Did JFK hit 100 like Central Park did in that 1953 super heatwave? How many of those heatwaves did JFK hit 100 in? I remember some of them very well" 1983, 1993 (my hottest long duration heatwave, JFK hit 100+ twice, NYC three times and EWR five times and later four more times for a record nine 100+ temps in 1993!), 1999 and 2002.

I would like the rainfall to go down first. it's going to be difficult to get back to that kind of heat with so much rain.

2010 was my all time favorite for how hot and dry it was, we haven't seen this kind of summer here in more than a decade. Notice how there is no year on that list after 2012 besides 2022.

1988 omg lol, that was definitely an inland summer 2010 was my favorite summer of all time

For long heatwaves, I start at 7 days. It's disappointing there have been no 7 plus day heatwaves here, as you can see from the above our best heatwaves were in 1953, 1993, 1999 and 2002. Chris and I just talked about this in a different thread: this goes towards my contention about why it's *climate change* and not *global warming*, there are different changes occurring in different parts of the world, the most pronounced change in our region during the so-called warm seasons has been more cloud cover and more rain. More of a pronounced warming in the fall and winter. September and even October have become extensions of late summer. The changes are nuanced and don't always mean higher temperatures, especially in the warm season the increase in rainfall is more than the increase in temperatures.

it's also good to talk about how disappointing a summer 1996 had, we had no 90 degree days after May, outside of one day that barely hit 90 on the last day of August in that year.

this goes towards my contention about why it's *climate change* and not *global warming*, there are different changes occurring in different parts of the world, the most pronounced change in our region during the so-called warm seasons has been more cloud cover and more rain. More of a pronounced warming in the fall and winter. September and even October have become extensions of late summer.

Next week looks really nice with sunny skies and temps in the low 60s. The rainfall can stay in the middle of the country for a few months, lets keep it there.

The government needs to make air conditioning mandatory in every home and in every apartment. I find it in 2025 it's highly ridiculous that more people have cell phones than air conditioning. Home builders must be forced to include air conditioning in every home or apartment building they build. We just did that here in New York. If you can afford to have a cell phone you can afford to have air conditioning.

I don't know about you but I find these extreme events interesting and even exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopperl,_Texas Shortly after midnight on June 15, 1960, a very rare meteorological phenomenon, a heat burst, struck the community when a dying thunderstorm collapsed over Kopperl. The storm had rained itself out, and with little to no precipitation to cool the resulting downdrafts, superheated air descended upon the community in the form of extremely hot wind gusts up to 75 mph (121 km/h). The temperature increased rapidly, reportedly peaking near 140 °F (60 °C),[3] 20° above the official all-time high for the state of Texas and exceeding the highest official temperature recorded on Earth. The storm, known as "Satan's Storm" by locals, soon became part of local folklore.[4][5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_burst heat bursts are absolutely wild, I want to experience one of these in my lifetime In meteorology, a heat burst is a rare atmospheric phenomenon characterized by a sudden, localized increase in air temperature near the Earth's surface. Heat bursts typically occur during night-time and are associated with decaying thunderstorms.[1] They are also characterized by extremely dry air and are sometimes associated with very strong, even damaging, winds. Although the phenomenon is not fully understood, the event is thought to occur when rain evaporates (virga) into a parcel of cold, dry air high in the atmosphere, making the air denser than its surroundings.[2] The parcel descends rapidly, warming due to compression, overshoots its equilibrium level, and reaches the surface, similar to a downburst.[3] Recorded temperatures during heat bursts, as informally known as "Satan's Storm", have reached well above 40 °C (104 °F), sometimes rising by 10 °C (18 °F) or more within only a few minutes. Possible that temps rose above 100 °F (38 °C), however thermometers designed to detect temperatures up to 140 °F (60 °C) broke. 15 June 1960 Kopperl, Texas 75 °F (24 °C) 140 °F (60 °C) 65 °F [b][68]