LibertyBell

I'm up for the challenge!!

This is climo history, when you have heat starting in the latter part of June it doesn't peak until July. Heat after June 20 usually indicates a very hot and very long summer. 1966, 1980 and 1993 being cases in point.

Maybe this extreme and historic heatwave will break the pattern. I, for one, am excited to get 2010, 2011 heat back into the region!!

That really is an unusual streak for Philly, is that their all time longest? I can't imagine why Philly hasn't hit 100 over 13 years lol. Can't use the sea breeze excuse.

From what I read that massive August 2003 outage was caused by a squirrel chewing on the power line up near Buffalo that caused a power cascade across the entire region from Michigan to the east coast and up to Canada, 55 million without power because of one hungry squirrel lol.

If a front never moves how long until it rains itself out and the clouds dissipate? I've always wondered about this.

and NYC too their streak also goes back to 2013. PHL has not hit 100 since 2013 either?

I was going to say, it might hit 90 as soon as Thursday even with limited sunshine. We won't have a sunny day before Friday though.

Our high pressures just haven't been strong enough to push the sea breeze offshore=\

With me it's usually either storms or winds. Sometimes even a single gust to like 30 mph is enough to shut off the power.

How did they fix it, did they put your power lines underground?

He never posts anything useful anyway, he just trolls snow weenies. That's why he's been 5 posted and bitter We already have snowman19 for that lol.

No one is forcing you to read, maybe you're just not that literate. Or it's sour grapes because you've been 5 posted for trolling snow weenies.

Thats very dangerous and why I have UPS set up in my house. Expensive electronic equipment can get fried when they lower the voltage. I haven't even listed the times that happened, but about 25 years ago, when I only used surge protectors and not UPS, one of my computers fried (literally, I smelled burning rubber inside) during an undervoltage event associated with a thunderstorm. And it's happened numerous other times not even associated with any bad weather at all, but I've always had UPS systems since that first disaster that I used my homeowner's insurance to pay for.

Yes thats why NYC and JFK were not close to 100..... if we do get a seabreeze next week, this area would be great for compressional heating as I'm about 2 miles north of the barrier islands.

I'm trying to remember all the most uncomfortable times my power went out. Number 1 would have to be August 2003 when we had that massive power outage that covered 1/3 of the country and eastern Canada. Our second longest power outage (behind the one that came with Sandy) at 13 hours. It was the hottest day of the entire summer (95 degrees) and no breeze even at night. I was too young to remember July 1977 but I think that would have been first if I had any memories of it outside of sitting in the dark with my family and hearing lots of sirens outside. Next up would be a 4 hour power outage we had in January 2018 I think it was. I was getting ready to see a total lunar eclipse at 11:30 that night and it was brutally cold and very windy and the power went out right after sunset and it stayed out until 11 PM. The high winds did it and I was freezing for hours without power. The wind came right into my house. Next on the list is November a few years ago (I forget the year), when we had 8 tornadoes in one day on Long Island. One of the tornadoes (an EF2) was close by-- I never saw it-- but had no power for 4 hours and was shivering all afternoon. The power came back around sunset. Next would be Sandy in October 2012 which was our longest power outage (25 hours) I was shivering all night. The next day wasn't so bad without any power all day, because it came back around sunset. Next is last August when I lost power for 4 hours again when it was sunny outside, no bad weather at all. It was in the low to mid 80s and with a light wind it felt hot without any a/c. Next would be March 2018 my power went out for 2 hours during the first of four noreasters that month. It wasn't as bad as the other ones I listed because the power came back pretty quickly.

Yeah infrastructure is not really political, I think everyone agrees that needs to change. Let's get the grid conversation now because in a few days none of us might have power to do it then lol.

1991 had a much hotter spring at least for us. We just don't get that kind of weather anymore especially in May.

I start watching my digital thermometer and start doing a countdown as soon as it reaches 99.0 lol

That's the real problem. And why is it going to cost so much? Prices are inflated here.

LGA heat issues lol

Yes this sucks, even though this is an inconvenience for us, people are dying a few states away from flash flooding.

it's interesting that Newark hit as high as 103 and none of us east of the Hudson even hit 98

I've seen those trains, they are the ones that make those loud bell like sounds that make me think I'm back in the 1800s lol.

Diesel? That should have been retired years ago. Serves them right to use ancient highly polluting fuel.