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we had mostly sunny skies for awhile really nice

we're also due for a 1983 like summer where you can be 95-100 from June through September

Yep, we have to make our own forecasts now, the way they used to do it

1993: In both human and economic terms the Great Flood of 1993 was the most devastating in modern U.S. history. It was a catastrophe across portions of 9 states with losses estimated up to $20 billion dollars. Over 50,000 homes were damaged or destroyed forcing the evacuation of some 54,000 people. In all the floods took 50 lives. Water level records were set at 49 places on the Missouri River system and at 43 places on the upper Mississippi River system. The flood was notable for its duration as well as its size. Flooding began in March with record floods beginning in May and continued into September. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) wow this was still going on?

But the storm itself is tracking to our NW so this can't be a surprise.

Instead of looking at models, perhaps it's better to look at storm tracks, when a storm tracks to our NW we typically see more scattered precipitation. Those 2-4 inch amounts were very unrealistic. Our rainfall pattern is cycling back to where we were in the 80s.

what was a mid Pliocene climate like and what kind of flora and fauna were around back then Don? is there any 3D simulation we can run to see what the Earth looked like in different eras and what kind of species were on the planet back then? I'm wondering if the Pliocene was the era of giant mammals like Baluchitherium, giant terror birds (Dinorthus), giant sloths, etc.

But we can also say that the current standard of living and consumerism that plagues humanity is also unsustainable and sooner or later that was going to come to an end. Climate change is a huge problem but there are multiple aspects of human society that are unsustainable, starting with having 8+ billion people on the planet, the usage of chemical pesticides (something the UN also mentions as an existential threat), etc.

humanity will adjust to it, we need to cut down the human population anyway

He could have just been honest and said we know climate change is real but we will adjust.

People who don't live in this area are jealous and always tell me wow you must get great airplane pictures of them taking off and landing. I told them I don't take pictures of air planes for the same reason I don't take pictures of sea gulls, they all look the same to me and once you've seen one you've seen them all.

I thought Santa needs snow not rain?

it's stuff like this that makes me want the aviation industry to be bankrupted =\ it's bad enough that the seats are too small and too tightly packed but they also annoy the people on the ground.

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.