LibertyBell

I'm confused what would cause the weakening though because the oceans are extremely warm now, in the mid 70s.

It was still raining here until about 9 am this morning so hopefully there will be a newer update Don.

0.88 in SW Nassau we were somewhere between the 0.88 and 2.09 lol

2.09 in southern Queens near JFK and Jamaica Bay, WOW!!

I dont understand why people thought the cooler ocean would weaken it, it rained for over 12 hours here and we had well over an inch on the south shore. The oceans are much warmer now, the ocean won't be weakening anything anymore, if anything it adds more moisture to make the rain heavier.

Yup, over an inch of rain and it was still raining hard this morning

By the way whomever said Long Island wouldn't get much rain was wrong, we had heavy rain last night and it was still raining here pretty hard around 8 AM this morning, it only ended just before 9 AM here, we had over 12 hours of rain!! We got over an inch of rain here

By the way whomever said Long Island wouldn't get much rain was wrong, we had heavy rain last night and it was still raining here pretty hard around 8 AM this morning, it only ended just before 9 AM here, we had over 12 hours of rain!!

By the way whomever said Long Island wouldn't get much rain was wrong, we had heavy rain last night and it was still raining here pretty hard around 8 AM this morning, it only ended just before 9 AM here, we had over 12 hours of rain!!

1995: Upstate New York: A extremely severe derecho sweeps across upstate New York. Wind gusting to 106 mph devastates over one million acres (400,000 hectares) of trees, felling tens of millions. Five campers are killed by the falling timbers.(Ref. WxDoctor)1995: Danbury, Connecticut: The highest temperature ever reported in Connecticut is 106 °F. (Ref. Lowest and Highest Temperatures for the 50 States)1995: Dew points >80 degrees, with a date record high of 103 degrees gave Philadelphia, PA a heat index of 129 degrees. 40 people died from heat in SE PA; approx. 1 million PA chickens succumbed to the heat. Some highways (including I-83 in York County) closed due to heat buckling. (Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA) I distinctly remember both Danbury and Poughkeepsie reaching 106 matching the heat in Chicago, we had a sea breeze so we did not reach triple digits here. This summer, while it had a very hot few weeks, was not on the same scale as 1993 or 1999. 1936: Perhaps the hottest night ever recorded in the US outside of the desert Southwest, occurred at Lincoln, Nebraska when the minimum temperature fell to only 91°F. The citizens of that city spent the night outdoors trying to sleep on the lawn of the state capitol. (Nebraska State Historical Society) (Extreme Weather p. 30, by Christopher C. Burt) 1936: All-time record highs were set at the following cities: Quincy, IL: 114°, Peoria, IL: 113°, Lincoln, IL: 113° and Rockford, IL: 112°. Champaign, IL hit 107°. This stood as their all-time record until 1954. wow this was the kind of summer the CONUS has a whole has never seen since..... 1936 1954 - The temperature at Balcony Falls, VA, soared to 110 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel) wild to see anywhere on the east coast hit 110.... Highs: EWR: 104 (1995) NYC: 102 (1995) LGA: 103 (1995) JFK: 99 (1983) Exceptionally hot day, I was in the Poconos on this day and it hit 100 there too. 1983 was a hotter summer for us though and hit 100 multiple times here both in July and August.

We need to remove both CO2 AND water vapor from the atmosphere, we're in an emergency situation and removing CO2 or stopping fossil fuels (which won't happen in our lifetimes) won't be enough, water vapor needs to be taken out of the atmosphere too. And with the melting of the ice caps the emergency will only accelerate.

it's here

I don't know man the rain is pretty heavy here right now

the heavy rain has made it to the south shore

the heavy rain has made it to the south shore

That would be a nice change, hopefully it's a drier heat

Yes the thicker more polluted air is why the highs are more muted except for those 2 days in late June

and not the higher highs we saw in 2010-2013, which were much easier to endure than the higher humidity type of lower end heat we get now

yeah more water vapor in the atmosphere is actually worse than more co2 in the atmosphere

Last year wasn't that hot either, Chris. Our last really hot summer was in 2013, I don't put much stock in averages.

for two days.....

The extreme heat was confined to two days in June, the rest of the summer has been mediocre.

LGA seems to have gotten quite a bit of rain too.

If it wasn't for the late June heat this summer would be extremely boring and mediocre.

this is why a drought is MUCH less damaging and MUCH less lethal than a flood.