LibertyBell

I feel bad for those people that live near those highways. There's also a strong link between children who grow up near highways and autism. It's probably the strongest environmental link there is.

lol it was a sauna here this morning as hot as it was yesterday, but after 1 pm the temperature suddenly dropped from 93 at 1:10 pm to 86 at 1:30 pm and now I hear thunder and it looks like it's raining at Yankee Stadium??

The reason I said mountaintop is because I've been in the Poconos during the summer and it does get into the 30s there a few nights every summer and it's quite refreshing. I've never seen it happen in July though, it's happened in the first half of June and the last half of August a bunch of times.

Duel powered vehicles are better in that they don't impact the grid or the climate much, you really have the best of both worlds. We do have an awful consumerist philosophy, eventually we're going to have to retire diesel trucks that ship our goods from coast to coast and replace them with electric trucks.

it's the average over the entire planet, so taking that into account, people have the choice not to smoke (and very few do anymore) while people don't really have a choice when it comes to air pollution-- it affects minority communities even more because thats where the polluting factories and diesel trucks usually are. I saw an estimate for Oakland that stated that air pollution has shortened life expectancy there by 8 years, 2.5 years was the planetary average-- so it's much worse in some communities than it is in others.

this sounds like 1976-77 lol

and this is why we are seeing the spraying of so many pesticides

The question is, do we actually want that kind of climate? I would say no, because it would be horrible for the growing season. The ideal climate is a nice compact winter with lots of snow in January and February, around 3 to 5 feet of snow and then a nice dry hot summer with 30 90 degree days 10 95 degree days and 3 100 degree days. I know I'm being very specific .... because my favorite season was the period from 2009-10 to 2010-11 for both winter and summer.

this is our best summer since 2010-2011 the ones after 2013 were all mediocre

This is probably a good thing for the growing season to be longer? I remember August 1986 that was my first Perseid meteor shower and it was a crystal clear sky with no haze temperatures near 50, felt like early fall. That first time had the best viewing conditions of any time I've seen it since (outside of the times I've seen them in the Poconos away from light pollution.)

Thanks Don, I was wondering how Central Park missed out on it. This could be the event I remember when my area got 4-5 inches of rain and NYC got little or nothing. The storms stalled over our area for 4 hours. We got an inch per hour for 4 hours. Do you have local PNS rainfall totals for this event Don? I remember it happened in the afternoon after a sunny morning.

The problem is there are still diesel trucks around. Air pollution shortens life by about 2.5 years even more than tobacco smoking does. There are asthma hot spots in northern Queens and in the Bronx in the highest trafficked areas. Do you know Cancer Alley in Louisiana? They have another one in Oakland.

the sun coming back out now let's see if we can make a run at 95, it would be my fourth consecutive 95+ day, I don't remember the last time that happened here lol

they still do that omg it smells like charcoal. at least when I've seen it done in the Poconos it happened in Fall and it made me feel warmer during the cold days lol

yes the sun is coming back out again it's not that different from yesterday lol what happened to that front?

It probably won't fall below the 80s until close to tomorrow morning?

I want that for my whole season

it hit 93 here lol

NO2 car pollution is much worse today and thats why we have much higher asthma rates now. it got lower during the pandemic. People need to stop driving cars.

obviously JFK was the hot spot today lol

if that even happened an argument can be made for global warming being a good thing to keep that kind of cold weather away and increase and lengthen the growing season.

I dont think you could grow crops here with lows in the 30s, maybe that was a mountaintop thing?

it already hit 93 here Tony and thats with cloudy skies

wow how did become so long Tony? 1980: Record heat continued across the middle of the country. Daily record highs included: Columbia, MO: 108°, Tulsa, OK: 108°, Oklahoma City, OK: 107° and Springfield, MO: 104°. Dodge City, KS recorded 22 days of 100° or higher, with 17 of those days in a row with temperatures of 102° or higher. This was the driest July of the 20th century across Oklahoma. The statewide average rainfall was less than a half an inch, with many locations receiving no rain. Along with the dry weather, it was very hot, with several high temperature records broken. An estimated 37 people died across Oklahoma due in part to the extreme heat. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) endless summers 1988 - Twenty-one cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Sioux City, IA, with a reading of 107 degrees. The reading of 105 degrees at Minneapolis, MN, was their hottest since 1936. Pierre and Chamberlain, SD, with highs of 108 degrees, were just one degree shy of the hot spot in the nation, Palm Springs, CA. (The National Weather Summary) 2010: The heat of July 2010 was brutal and relentless !! Tied for hottest month of all time in Washington (83.1 °F) and at BWI (81.5 °F) (Until 2011 see 2011 below) Positive monthly departures at all major airports: + 3.9 °F at DCA, +5.0 °F at BWI and +3.8 °F at IAD Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 Richmond had its hottest July with an average temperature of 82.8 °F; the previous record was 82.4 °F set in 1993. The hottest month Richmond has ever felt was August of 1900 with a mean temperature of 82.9 °F which was only 0.1 °F higher. But this July was preceded by the hottest spring and hottest June on record. Richmond's average temperature for both June and July was the hottest on record at 82 °F. Norfolk also set a record for those two months at 81.6, according to the Weather Service. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC)July temperatures -- Richmond had 24 days 90 °F or higher and the 113 year record for July is 26 days in 1993. Richmond had 18 days 95 °F or higher setting a new 113 year record for July the most for any month on record. Norfolk, VA had 13 days 95 °F or higher tying their record for July. Richmond had 7 days with 100 °F or higher and the previous 113 year record, the most for any month, was 6 days in July 1977 and 1963. The 105 °F record temperature on the 24th and 25th also ties the highest maximum temperature ever recorded in July in Richmond. The Airport had ten days in 2010 with the temperature 100 °F or more; the old record was nine set in 1954. Rainfall total of only 2.01 inches for June and July made it the driest June and July on record. (Ref. Richmond Times-Dispatch Newspaper Thursday, August 26, 2010)(Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) DCA soared to a record 102 °F on the 7th and 101 °F on the 24th. BWI recorded record high temperatures on 4 days: 6th (105 °F), 7th (101 °F), 24th (101 °F) and 25th (100 °F) On the 6th, BWI soared to 105 °F; 2nd hottest day ever in Baltimore (107 °F, 7/10/36); at or above 100 °F at BWI on 5 days, most on record At or above 90 °F on 44 days in 2010 at DCA, most number of days through July on record. Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 2011: Hottest average monthly temperatures on record at all three major airports: 84.5 °F at DCA (+5.3 °F); 81.7 °F at BWI (+5.2 °F); and 81.0 °F (+5.3 °F) at IAD. On 22nd, BWI’s high of 106 °F was second highest temperature on record; IAD's record maximum of 105 °F was hottest temperature on record; DCA’s 104 °F on 30th tied for the 5th highest reading in Washington; Heat Index values reached 121 °F at DCA, 118 °F at BWI and 117 °F at IAD due to oppressive humidity. DCA recorded 7 days with minimums at or above 80 °F, including a record 4 consecutive days from 21st-25th BWI observed 4 days with highs at or above 100 °F ; 3 such occurrences at DCA and IAD DCA reported 25 days with highs at or above 90 °F; BWI and IAD, 24; setting records at all three locations Ref. Taken from the Sterling Reporter Volume 10, Issue 3 National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC Forecast Office Summer 2011 Ref. July 2011 PRESTO Page 1 1993: The 30.3 inches of rain that fell during the month at Worth County, Missouri was nearly equal to the amount of rainfall that the area would receive in an entire year. Record precipitation that occurred across a good portion of the mid-Mississippi valley during the summer fell as far east as parts of central Illinois. During the month of July, Canton reported 12.66 inches of rain and Peoria reported 10.15 inches, both setting a record for the month. Springfield's 9.46 inches was good enough for the 2nd wettest July on record. Sioux Falls airport received 7.86 inches. That ranks July 1993 as the third wettest July on record in Sioux Falls. The high total of July 1993 also contributed to the wettest summer (June, July & August) on record in Sioux Falls with 17.39 inches of rain. Crop growth was very slow, with corn and soybeans two weeks to one month behind their normal growth by the end of July in Iowa. Losses in the corn crop amounted to nearly $1.389 billion, losses in soybeans were around $941 million dollars and oat damage was about $26 million dollars. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1994: Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1994: Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) Philly had so much rain with a super hot July????

I dont know about those other ones but 1949 and 1955 were extremely hot!!!