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to be fair our last really hot summer was 2013, Newark is notorious for having a hot bias. Is this the same low coming back again and again? How long does it take for this thing to dissipate?

NY is big on hydroelectric power, that's my favorite energy source (I also love solar, you can make money off a solar farm.)

No, my allergies stopped as soon as the rain stopped last night, it was pretty amazing, my allergies are better than radar at detecting rain. It never happens when it snows though.

It got rid of the clouds and rain so it's fine.

Some good reasoning right here, Chris.... what are your thoughts on the increased NAO blocking in springtime, even late springtime (May).... is this a seesaw effect to balance out what we're seeing in the winter?

well it's been completely sunny here since sunrise.

If you're a customer of CON Edison, then you should know that they are predatory and have been prosecuted for spiking their prices. I'm a big believer in publicly controlled utility companies and price controls being in effect.

Looks like that last batch of rain is finally coming through.

It's raining again, maybe this is that last batch people were talking about coming through?

This is a boon for the wind turbine industry.

That entire 2010-2013 may not be repeated again for a long time. What I really liked about it was it was hot and dry.

LGA has more of an inland influence so they are lucky enough to avoid the onshore flow we're getting here on the south shore. But as you said, it's much better at EWR, where there a southerly/southwesterly flow doesn't allow the ocean to moderate the air. The changing position of the Bermuda High is responsible. When we had more 90 degree days here during the 90s, it was south of us, giving us a downsloping westerly flow. Now the Bermuda High and heat has moved north of us giving us more of a southerly flow, which is more humid but caps our heat in the upper 80s.

JFK too, the heat is moving inland, Chris said it's because the Bermuda High is moving north, which is why the heat is focused more inland and we're just getting the humidity (yuck). Our 90 degree days have not seen an increase in a few decades. Trust me I wish we were getting hotter drier summers but here on Long Island, they are much wetter and very humid but not as hot. More like Florida's east coast.

The only good thing about this super heat wave was it was the main reason Teddy Roosevelt became president, he was one of our very best.

I researched that 10 day heatwave in August 1896 that may have had more impact on NYC than any other weather event in history, even more than the March 1888 blizzard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Eastern_North_America_heat_wave Holy f*ck excuse my language please The 1896 eastern North America heat wave was a 10-day heat wave in New York City, Boston, Newark and Chicago that killed about 1,500 people in August 1896.[1][2][3] History [edit] There were ten days of temperatures at least 90 °F (32 °C) with high humidity and little breeze.[4] The temperatures in New York did not drop below 72 °F (22 °C) at night, with three consecutive nights at 80 °F (27 °C) or above. It killed more than the New York City draft riots and the Great Chicago Fire combined.[2] A majority of the deaths were of working-class men in their twenties who performed manual labor. The New York City Public Works Commissioner ordered that his workers' shifts be modified so they would not be working during midday, and he had fire hydrants opened to cool people on the street. Theodore Roosevelt, then New York City Police Commissioner, distributed free ice from local police stations. After accidental deaths from people falling off the roofs they were sleeping on, the New York City Parks Department allowed people to sleep in parks overnight.[1][2]

https://www.weather.gov/okx/heatwaves Just like I said we used to have some epic heatwaves back in the day, although 2010 had our most 90 degree days here at JFK, our last really long heatwave was in 2002. Longest Heat Waves - 90 degrees + in a row (through March 10) Days Dates Temperatures 91,91,91,94,98,99,98,100,97,102,94,90 92,97,97,93,96,97,93,92,90,98,90 98,100,101,102,97,94,94,91,90,90 90,94,92,97,95,98,94,96,93,90 92,96,98,95,92,93,94,94,94 93,92,96,98,97,100, 102,92,104 91,93,91,91,91,94,99,101,95 93,94,91,94,92,91,93,93,91 96, 95, 95, 96, 97, 90, 92, 91 91, 92, 91, 94, 93, 94, 96, 95 98, 95, 98, 94, 95, 94, 96, 93 97, 102, 97, 96, 95, 95, 96, 95 91,91,93,95,95,100,100,94 93, 93, 91, 94, 96, 90,96 93, 93, 95, 94, 96, 99, 97 90, 93, 96, 99, 96, 100, 102 94, 93, 94, 98, 96, 93, 97 94, 95, 96, 93, 94, 94, 93 98, 100, 90, 95, 100, 97, 93 92, 97, 100, 101, 91, 90, 90

For Pittsburgh maybe, but in NYC our very hot summers ended after 2013 with more rain than heat in summer now.

Ours was July 2010, I loved that month !!

I wonder if these 11 year hot summers are connected to the solar cycle. Look up these summers, all of them were very hot here: 1933, 1944*, 1955*, 1966*, 1977, 1988, 1999*, 2010*. A CONUS map of these summers is quite revealing. * denotes the hottest summer or hottest summer month to that point in the climate history.

I fully subscribe to climate change, but you must admit it affects winters much more than it does summers. Summers are judged by high temps anyway, like number of 90 and 100 degree days. The wetter springs and wetter summers are flatlining the number of hot days we have and shortening our heatwaves to 3-5 days or less, when we once used to have much longer heatwaves of 7-10 days or even more multiple times a summer (1999, 2002). I would dearly like to remove water vapor from the atmosphere and convert it to drinking water, which would ameliorate this issue somewhat.

carbon dioxide is treated like a villain but it's water vapor that is the real culprit (a worse greenhouse gas and an air pollutant to boot.) If we could remove about 30% of the water vapor out of the atmosphere and convert it to drinking water, this would go a long ways towards fixing CC and our fresh drinking water problems. I hate water vapor so I'm all aboard this train.

Hard to believe our rainfall totals are under one inch. But it looks like we'll end up in the .50-1.00 category, with the 1+ inches in eastern LI and NW areas. It's plenty of rain, looks like it's 90% done. Might get another tenth out of this that's about it.

Yes Happy Get Your Freak On Day-- I hope you have a full weekend of celebrating!!

That was Saturday May 10th in the Poconos, snow squalls periodically throughout the day, including some heavier bursts of snow that lay down dustings and coatings. The morning low was in the upper teens with wind chills around 0.

That reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock story about a lady dreaming about her own funeral in May with snow falling and laying a covering over the flowers. She thought this can't be possible, but that is exactly what happened.