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LGA is a huge problem. It's just too busy. JFK has some cases like what you've mentioned too but it typically happens only early in the morning. But I hate those loud noises too. Nothing worse than having your day interrupted with multiple loud house shaking planes come by one after the other.

Most of that in one storm (2.21 I think)? Which also matches the exact total of the entire month of August lol.

words and phrases like *lull* and *rounds of rain* should be banned from TV, TV Mets are unintellectual robots who use the same words over and over again.

Thanks Don ! What a fascinating read ! Also possibly proof of a cyclic multiverse !

Sadly something we have not experienced much in recent years, when was the last time it was frozen-- February 2015?

Thanks this was going to be my next question, Don! It's what caused me to conjecture that a universe could exist inside a spinning Kerr black hole (maybe ours as recent evidence indicates our universe is spinning) because there would be a calm *eye* at the center of such a spinning black hole that would be stable enough to house one. In this case gravity would be the analog to wind.

Back when I was in high school the teachers hated it because they had to interrupt their teaching as the windows rattled and no one could hear anything. I wonder if hearing damage can result from these kinds of loud noises? It's more annoying when it happens at night when you're trying to sleep although I notice there aren't many flights here between 11 pm and 5 am. It messes up my astrophotography sometimes but I have software that removes airplane streaks from my pictures automatically (they are treated as bad pixels.)

it's fascinating how a Fujiwara interaction is so reminiscent of a gravitational interaction between two celestial bodies in proximity to each other.

to get more specific Don, do you think the January 2016 snowfall amount of over 30 inches at JFK will be beaten during this century (or maybe ever)?

wow you live in Nirvana. Smart thinking too, as streetlights don't increase safety or security.

China isn't doing much either, Don. What I find interesting about these few future blockbusters, will it be a case of, say when we get a 20 inch snowstorm in 2040, we will wonder whether it would have been a 30 or even 40 inch snowstorm in 2010? Or will the few blockbuster snowstorms be bigger than what they would have been in an earlier era?

it's hard to block them with light pollution filters for astrophotography too. I used to use narrowband filters because sodium and mercury vapor street lamps only emit light in discrete wavelengths but broadband LED lights transmit over the entire visible spectrum =\ they also have health implications because the lights are brighter and higher frequency while sodium and mercury vapor lights are yellow and orange which are lower frequency and easier to sleep in and also dimmer. The only good thing about LED lights is that they are part of *smart lighting* so they can be turned off automatically when people are sleeping or even set automatically by a motion detector so if there are no people walking nearby they stay off and only turn on when they detect motion. I would hope they turn them off at 11 PM.

yeah suburban street lights suck too, especially the new LED broadband lights they've installed. Just using myself as an example I sleep at least 2-3 hours more when I'm in the Poconos and it's pitch black there no noise no lights. (Not only are there no street lights there, there aren't even any traffic lights lol.)

lol you sound like me at least there are less planes flying over here late at night. it starts up around 5 am though

I do too, it's better on Long Island. In Manhattan it might not be enough. I agree with you about smart city planning being ideal. From my previous post: The ideal solution (better than either traffic or mass transit) is to walk or bike ride. Maybe that's what PSV means? Make our cities more walkable and amenable to bike riding like they do in Europe? Their food is far healthier too (far less processed).

this assumes that people aren't driving, unfortunately too many people drive through the city and the NO2 pollution from that makes asthma rates worse. The ideal solution (better than either traffic or mass transit) is to walk or bike ride. Maybe that's what PSV means? Make our cities more walkable and amenable to bike riding like they do in Europe? Their food is far healthier too (far less processed).

you'd need black out curtains not regular curtains. Even that sometimes isn't enough. There is a lawsuit against light pollution going on currently from an apartment complex in the city because the outside lights strobe right in through the windows and even wearing eyepatches isn't enough. Light pollution is highly wasteful and has not proven to help reduce crime at all, if anything it helps criminals see better in the dark

but asthma rates are the highest in big cities and that has been directly connected to why the the pandemic was so much worse in the parts of the city that are most highly trafficked. densely packed cities means more air pollution (mainly due to increased traffic)

you're right no point in arguing about something so obvious. please do tell us next that ultraprocessed food is fine too.

if it doesn't affect you of course you don't care. the attitude of the typical American

nope, it was a typo (a difference of two letters is a typo), take your asinine attitude elsewhere or you will be introduced to an avalanche of studies, here's another one https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp935

the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of limiting both noise AND light pollution.

my sympathy for you living in Brooklyn, I grew up there, you can't even see 20 stars from there at night.

you are a sample size of one, so no, you're not evidence of anything. and we're not talking about suburban life either, there's way too much light and noise pollution in suburban environments too. we're talking about living in an area devoid of wasteful night time lights and noise. this is why cities like Flagstaff are shutting down their lights, there is no benefit to having street lights on at night pointing up at the sky. If you care or knew anything about science you'd know that already

yeah that was a typo on my part, and yes there is evidence on multiple levels that living in a densely packed area is awful for both mental AND physical health