LibertyBell

This is ideal weather. Sorry I have to disagree with you about the smoke, smoke is air pollution and shortens life expectancy, I would take this weather over smoke. I would even take heat over smoke, because you can use an air conditioner to stop the heat, there's nothing you can do to stop smoke unless you wear a mask. Which is what they have been recommending in the Midwest.

Yes lots of innovations in the near future, I find it frustrating that we took so many steps backwards during and after the 80s we have a lot of ground to make up

But our safety standards are much higher than what Chernobyl had.

If that's the case, China will be leading the world into the future, Don.

not doing a good job on stopping famines, preventing wars or any of its other stated missions though

Even though the left (I wouldn't say it's most of the left, maybe a very small portion?) doesn't like nuclear fission, I find it understandable-- those people are stuck in the past of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and maybe even Fukushima. Those concerns are reasonable even if they are wrong (just don't build a nuclear power plant near a fault line), I don't get the right's issue with renewables. Are they aware that Texas has the highest renewable capacity of any state in the country? It seems to me it's not the right that is opposed to renewables, it's the fossil fuel industry that feeds the right that is opposed to them.

We have some light showers now, will this help with the smoke? If anything the visibility has gotten even less!

Yes, it's ironic and in a sad way, people think they have free will (and we do to a certain extent), but everything we do is controlled by natural processes. War, mass migration, etc, are all the result of what we do to the planet and on the planet.

Only economists know that growth is infinite on a finite planet. This math really doesn't work, we are already consuming resources at twice the rate that the planet can replace them. It's why this planet has a population ceiling of around 11 billion humans.

India is horrible when it comes to air pollution too, all those people densely packed and too many people driving cars.

7+ day heatwaves have become much more rare so it's likely wrong.

what caused this toxic chemical smog? factories?

ugh those awful subsidized cornfields

and here I was starting to get worried about squirrels invading your birds' feeder lol

Look at that August 7, 1918 Hi/Lo at NYC of 104/82, that's the stuff of legends..... Over 100 years later and NYC has not been able to match that kind of heat in August (we came close with 103 in August 2001, almost to the same date.)

Wild, that must have been both NYC and EWR's highest temperature recorded at the time. EWR's 105 was tied many times after this but was not exceeded until July 2011, almost 100 years later!!!

Shouldn't westerly flow be a drier flow though? I thought it was southerly flow that increases humidity, while a west wind is a downsloping wind that dries out the air?

Don, that's what I find most confusing-- who allowed the major polluters full standing to shape the outcome and why are their lobbyists allowed entry into COP at all? Was this a US position or is the UN itself corrupted as a whole and getting paid off by these companies?

turning on the air conditioning helped, even though I'm freezing now lol

That's absolutely amazing for so long ago, Tony! And wasn't the following winter, *The Long Winter*? The Weather Channel had a climatologist on who analyzed the Little House on the Prairie books and said they were based on real weather events and one of them was The Long Winter, which is based on the winter of 1881-82?

why is it on the ground?

is that Mars? It got larger or closer since I last saw it.... and where are the Martian polar ice caps? are they melting too?

One more day of this tomorrow before we clear out. I've been keeping my air conditioning on 24/7 it seems to filter out the smoke and keeps me from coughing.

Looks like we will be seeing more westerly flow I think this is a cyclic change back to our hotter summers and expect to see more of this in future summers.

1918 - Unusually hot weather began to overspread the Atlantic Coast States, from the Carolinas to southern New England. The temp- erature soared to an all-time record high of 106 degrees at Washington D.C., and Cumberland and Keedysville hit 109 degrees to establish a state record for Maryland. Temperatures were above normal east of the Rockies that month, with readings much above normal in the Lower Missouri Valley. Omaha NE reached 110 degrees. (David Ludlum) On this date the highest ever maximum temperature of 107 °F was recorded in Richmond, VA. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records) This must have been when the historic 104 degrees occurred- back in 1918, right after our coldest winter ever in 1917-18. 1881: Smoke from Michigan forest fires created a yellow pall over the Northeast. Candles were necessary for light at noontime. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) See it's entirely different when the smoke comes from another state vs another country lol What happened in 1881 to cause this?