LibertyBell
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Thanks for the comparison Chris.... it's wild how everyone says that LGA is overly hot, and yet the high in Summer 1966 was 107 while it was 3 degrees lower in Summer 2011 at 103. I love the Mineola comparison between the two summers, they went up from 103 in 1966 to 108 in 2011 to match Newark! Newark went up three degrees from 105 to 108 and NYC and JFK basically stayed the same (103-104). This is a great reference point to compare the climate between the 1960s and the 2010s!! Didn't 1966 have a second 100 degree heat streak, back in June? I think JFK topped 100 in that one too! We don't see 100 degree heat in June anymore, but we did in the 1950s (1953) and 1960s (1966).
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108 at Newark, 104 at NYC and 103 at JFK. As Chris mentioned Mineola on Long Island hit 108 and matched Newark!
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Summer 1966 was also followed by one of our best winters, 1966-67. It furthers my argument that our hottest/driest summers lead to our best winters. It was repeated again with 1977-78, 1993-94, 1995-96, 2002-03 and 2010-11. 1955-56 also followed in the same style. I definitely would not mind a lower humidity summer with high temperatures above 100, it's quite therapeutic and keeps the bugs away.
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I thought it was the downsloping effect from the huge skyscrapers... dry hot west winds in the spring summer and fall are my absolute favorite!! We get really blue skies with them too!!
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enjoy your mild snowless winter, because thats what we will get with a rainy cool summer.
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so all this cut off crap is caused by the big ridge in the west? why don't we get this in the winter anymore-- ridge in the west trough in the east? I can easily forecast a mild snowless winter, because that's when we'll get the ridge in the east lol. Whatever the summer is, the winter tends to be opposite.
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is this also the day of the month that has gotten the most rain? My dear Dad passed away on 5/14/2014 and I always remember it as the rainiest day and that entire spring/summer was extremely rainy.
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but it's leaning on higher mins, so not really an inferno, more like a slow bake oven.
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^Yes, meanwhile Kennedy and Long Beach were up around 80 mph. Higher than December 1992 but not anywhere near the amount of damage because December 1992 lasted for 3-5 days. They really need to name these long lasting historic noreasters, they cause more damage here than hurricanes do.
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The northern Queens hailstorm I remember from the 90s had very small hailstones (hail pebbles?) but they fell for several hours and accumulated up to a foot, that's why snow plows were required.
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Don't jinx yourself, one day you'll be hit by a megaicycryometeor!!
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west Texas climate is much better with drier heat. My first step in geoengineering would be to get rid of the Gulf of Mexico. Or build a mountain range on the gulf coast to cut off all that humidity.
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That must have been a north shore event. I know there was a hail event in northern Queens years ago that required plowing to remove.
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I blame pesticides and fertilizers more than anything. Conventional farming practices need to be reformed. Toxic algae blooms cause massive problems in the summer.
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so glad we're not getting any of that rain they are getting south of us, flash flood emergencies and entire school buses floating away! we've had more than enough rain.
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wow earliest shark sighting on Long Island, a Great White was sighted near Montauk!!
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well the sun will likely vaporize the entire planet but human induced climate change will be enough to cause a rapid increase in cloud cover. we won't be on this planet in 1 million years let alone 700 million
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I'm thinking a lesser version of Venus will develop eventually, maybe even permanent cloud cover. With 70% of the surface covered in oceans, it's not even that much of a stretch. The permanent cloud cover will help even out the temperatures across the planet so that's a way of planetary self regulation too, not that we want that lol.
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Our May and Junes used to be much hotter in the 50s and 60s, we hit 99 in May 1962 if I remember correctly and 100 in June 1953. Yes, this is all off the top of my head.... I remember numbers very well and I'm not old enough yet for my memory to be fading (knock on wood lol).
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By the way this has come close to happening in the past. I present to you Summer 1966 and Summer 2011 Summer 1966 Newark 105 Central Park 103 LaGuardia 107 Kennedy 104 Note that in Summer 1966 Central Park was also cooler than Kennedy, was that also a foliage issue? Summer 2011 Newark 108 Central Park 104 Kennedy 103 (I don't remember the La Guardia high temperature from July 2011 off the top of my head.)
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If thats what it takes to get JFK to 104-105, I'm fine with Newark hitting 110+
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summer heat is a lot of fun because we get to go to the beach, there's plenty of water in the ocean to enjoy ;-) CC is actually setting a limit as to how hot our summers can get unfortunately. The sky is the limit with winter though-- at some point, we'll lose our seasons and there won't be a big difference between winter and summer, you're already seeing that with fall just becoming an extension of summer.
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well it has to break sometime Chris, but note as I pointed out before, thee period have been getting longer since 1966.... I believe our extreme high temps are leveling off and flatlining, because the earth is self regulating our summertime high temps, we'll likely reach a ceiling and not get any higher than that. That number is higher for inland areas, but at whatever level, we'll all eventually reach a ceiling and temperatures won't get any higher than that.
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JFK: 41 (2020) wild how cold 2020 still was so late in the season.
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looks like Newark barely got there in 1983 but was the hottest summer at both NYC and JFK until 1991 and 1993 for NYC and 2010 for JFK.
