LibertyBell

Hey quick question, how do I delete all my attachments lol. I wanted to post some pictures I took of the sun (there's a lot of sunspots visible right now), but I can't post any because I have a limit of 1.95 MB and the file I want to post is between 4-5 MB.

I thought so haha. I'll write an autobiography one day lol. I was into snow, limitless energy and magnets before the internet and before we even had cable TV.

Yup, the closest comparison would be to Florida cold.... it can be chilly for a few hours just before and just after sunrise, but as soon as the sun comes up in the sky, it feels nice. It's hard to have a high under 60 if it's going to be sunny this time of year.

I'll just keep entertaining you all with what my 6-8 year old Dennis the Menace like self used to do to "make it snow" and to invent "limitless energy" and to become a "human magnet" lol.

does this really work? when I was a kid I did something stupid and funny-- This was back in the early 80s we were living in an apartment in Brooklyn and I was pissed off because the weather people were always blowing their forecasts of snow and it never seemed to snow... it must have been 1980 or 1981 I would guess. My only justification for this is I was somewhere between 6-8 years old when this happened..... my parents were out shopping and I decided to make my own snow because I was pissed off that it wouldn't snow. I took talcum powder and poured it all over our fans and turned them all on (we had a lot of table fans and ceiling fans, etc.) Anyway as soon as I turned on all the fans, I was delighted because I could see it "snowing" everywhere as the talcum was blown around by the fans. IT WAS JUST LIKE A REAL BLIZZARD! But as soon as I came to my senses I realized that everything had turned white and my parents would be very angry when they got home so I quickly wiped everything off. Only problem was our one TV in the house had also turned white and it had little airholes in the back and the white powder got stuck in there and I didn't quite know how to remove it from there so in my 6-8 year old panicked and frantic mind I decided to pour water in there to clean out the powder. As you can guess this wasn't a good idea and the TV started to hum when I turned it on. I could do nothing but turn it off and wait for it to dry out completely before it was safe to turn on again without the humming. They did find out what I did when they came home and everything looked like it was covered in a hazy white mist lol. My sister rubbed her eyes because she couldn't quite tell what happened.... until I explained what I did to everyone. It goes right along with some of the other stuff I did around that same age. I ate a couple of those magnets that you put on refrigerators to keep things in place because I saw iron being attracted to cartoon characters who ate magnets (Tom and Jerry I think.) I also wanted to invent my own permanent battery free source of electricity for flashlights because I hated when batteries ran out so I decided to attach a piece of aluminum foil to a flashlight bulb and stick the other end of the foil in an electrical outlet. When this didn't quite work I decided to stick the flashlight bulb directly into the electrical outlet and got the electrical jolt of my life (it felt like my insides were in the spin cycle of a washing machine) and my finger tip-- and the small flashlight bulb-- both turned ash black lol. Again I was somewhere between 6-8 years old when all this happened.....

why are we getting a polar vortex this late in April anyway? Isn't the -NAO gone?

as long as it's sunny it won't really matter if it's cold for a few hours during the early morning hours... I am SO happy it's going to be sunny next week either way.

as long as it's sunny it won't really matter if it's cold for a few hours during the early morning hours.

It's going to be sunny all next week, which is perfect. It doesn't need to rain again until May.

Lee Goldberg still has lows of 37 for Thursday morning and is talking about frost advisories. I guess on the bright side, regardless of whether it's cold or not, it'll be sunny.

What was the year we had that big severe weather outbreak on my birthday (September 15th)?

In the 1990s they were sandwiched between some super hot summers so that made a difference 1991-- extremely hot, record number of 90 degree days 1992-- extremely cool and rainy Pinatubo summer (?) 1993-- back to record heat and record number of 90 and 100 degree days 1995-- very dry and very hot, lots of fires 1996-- very humid but not a hot summer, we had a 2 day streak of heat in May and then didn't hit 90 again until for just one day on the last day of August. 1999-- back to record heat, record hot July (record broken in 2010) 2002-- very hot and dry 3 day heatwave in April matched 1977 but in complete opposition to that year we went to a very hot and dry summer, JFK's hottest since 1983 and hottest until 2010.

I remember this, we had an amazing couple of years of severe weather in 2009 and 2010 and we had a lot of blocking in the winter which gave us our snowiest winter couplet in recorded history. Is there a connection between the two?

It's this kind of weather that makes me wish we spent a trillion dollars on engineering the climate. But since the sun has been out this morning here it's okay

No, thats not it. It's the endless days of cool rainy cloudy weather that sucks. I love it when it's sunny for 7 days in a row and then it can be cool and rainy for a couple of days. It's nice to see when it doesn't happen too often.

I don't know how you can enjoy that without any records weather gets boring lol

even here the sea breeze held off until after 2 PM so we hit 80

I thought it also hit 80 on April 9th?

I enjoyed our 80 here, we were able to hold off the sea breeze until after 2 PM

excellent-- LGA is very similar to JFK-- the top heatwaves are from 1953 and 2002.

Yes, indeed it's about New York City. Here on Long Island we've seen the same thing with the rapid increase in rainfall and wet summers, which blunt the high temperatures but make the lows warmer. JFK is what I use for that data, where it goes back to the 40s and 50s when we had some of our longest heatwaves on record.

New York City mostly-- it's the one which lists the longest heatwaves and when they occurred (I'm chiefly concerned with heatwaves of 7 days and longer.) Of course climate change is making the climate warmer, but the change is nonlinear. It means higher lows but the highest temperatures are not as hot because we are also seeing an increase in water vapor, which makes the air more difficult to heat. The energy of the sun then goes into drying the ground first before it can heat the air.

I'm curious what causes them and why they are only visible just before and just after totality. I heard them compared to sun shining on a swimming pool.

People will likely be moving away from Miami because of sea level rise. They already get sunny day flooding. Projections are that a lot of that coastal population will be moving to Orlando and other points inland.

I find it weird how it didn't affect Miami more than it did. It must have been really small (maybe 5 miles wide?) because Miami is very close to the southern tip of Florida.