LibertyBell

omg two pests, this explains why I saw so many lanternflies here last summer. One even got inside my house (I killed it immediately), but I see many of them flying around outside.

Still cloudy today, I hate it when fronts lag like this.

And also with more rainfall the winds required to topple over trees is less. Now we're seeing trees come down in 40 mph gusts, which used to need 60 mph gusts to bring down.

Yes! I call them the Tree from Hell.

I wonder how much tree loss there was in September 1998 in Lynbrook when we had that severe wx outbreak on Labor Day and an F2 tornado directly hit Lynbrook. That was our biggest severe wx outbreak for this area that I can remember.

We have these giant invasive trees here (I'm not sure what they are called) that are spreading like wildfire. Completely cut off the sun and it's affected my planting. Thinking of trimming the top off or just hiring someone to cut it down.

I've read about male trees being a big problem because people are too lazy to plant female trees because they don't want to clean up after them.

yes this is just the rogue off mark day, however I see central NJ has already made it into the 60s.

I hate pesticides, but as for excessive pollination, it's no longer natural because of our warming climate, we've made it much worse. =\ Also, the things that give us allergies and breathing problems aren't really essential to our environment.

The sun is starting to come out here and I see large patches of blue skies everywhere.....

Chris have you noticed the chronological progression here too? It actually seems to be getting worse with time! It was shorter from the 40s through the 60s and beginning with the 70s the gaps have been getting wider. The turning point was after 1966.... that was one GREAT summer going by the numbers. 2010-2013 was a hot island in a vast sea of mediocrity!

Maybe one day we'll figure out plant birth control and be able to spray something that will limit pollenation. It gets worse every year.

Back to bright and sunny on Sunday One day of rain is fine, multiple days is a bad pattern.

a new record for Central Park too Chris?

yes, average vs absolute.

no NYC plus JFK Real feel aren't actual temperatures any more than wind chill is though. It's just a subjective measure of how people feel. I get a kick out of seeing my digital thermometer hit triple digits or go below zero. The only time I saw it go below zero was in January 1994. (I didn't have one in January 1985 and we didn't go below zero here in February 2016.) We need these westerly winds to continue. 2010 and 2011 back to back were just so epic.

70.2 degrees here at 5:06 pm

we have a record drought of 100 degree highs. The last time we hit 100 here was 2013. The last time we had a 20 inch snowstorm was 2016

wow the top 3 had some great winters after they happened 2010-2013 was such an epic period for heat and snowstorms, I don't think we'll see either of those for a long time to come.

the only reason it became a problem though was because it stalled. it had nothing to do with strength. There are other types of storms that have stalled out and produced catastrophic consequences, for exampled stalled thunderstorms and stalled fronts. we seem to get more of these every year =\

Yeah I was keeping track of it because it was near my house there. State and local fire crews are battling a large brush fire of unknown origin near Jim Thorpe in Carbon County. Jacob Novitsky, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, said the fire broke out around 4:30 p.m. Saturday along Bear Mountain, south of the Carbon County seat. Novitsky said Sunday that about 70 firefighters from the region and state are working to extinguish the blaze, which he estimated has spread to around 260 acres in the Packerton Junction area. Forestry aircraft was called to help with the blaze. “It’s still actively burning,” Novitsky said. “This is going to take a couple days, at least another two or three days, to get this buttoned up.” Top Videos Calgary fire officials concerned about dry and windy conditions -00:24 Dry weather, wind and location are making it difficult to bring the fire under control, he said. No injuries have been reported, but it is possible that homes and other buildings near the fire could be evacuated, Novitsky said. He said area rail service, including tourist trains, is still running, but the Delaware & Lehigh Canal trail is closed between Packerton Junction and Long Run Road. The fire is near Route 209 and the Lehigh River. https://www.mcall.com/2025/04/20/jim-thorpe-brush-fire-sunday-update/

omg that looks big enough to be a human.

we had smoke this morning, was there a fire in eastern PA? I read that there was.

But these were hurricanes at one point. There's a HUGE difference between a little piddly storm that never became a hurricane vs a storm that was once a hurricane. Floyd was nearly a cat 5. A little storm that just developed doesn't have the power of a storm that was once a major hurricane. You're making my case for naming noreasters (which they do with similar type storms in Europe.) We should also name atmospheric river events on the west coast (we already categorize them 1-5 just like we do with hurricanes.) If you're going to name tropical storms, noreasters and atmospheric river events should definitely also be named.

For Long Island Floyd didn't do much, it was much worse in NJ. A friend of mine came here from Greece and was like, *This is a hurricane? This is nothing but an average rainstorm! Why are you Americans so scared about everything!* I had to remind him about what a real hurricane can do here. Of course he was no longer here when Sandy came calling. If you remember Irene, Bloomberg got major flak for shutting down the city (and as a result didn't shut it down when Sandy came calling)- man, I really hated him lol. TS like Floyd and Irene characteristically cause the most damage well away from the point of landfall. NJ in the case of Floyd (in our area) and Vermont in the case of Irene. Agnes I wasn't around for at all, but wasn't that a hurricane when it made landfall? I think Floyd was still a hurricane when it made first landfall in NC. Regardless for our area anyway I don't pay much attention to tropical storms-- a historic noreaster like December 1992 causes much more damage for our area.