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  1. No, by extended heatwaves, I have a specific definition of 7 or more consecutive days of 90+, which hasn't happened since the 90s from the records I keep. I don't think the summer will be very hot either, for a number of reasons. I don't believe it will be very wet either though (which is where you and I diverge.)
  2. I remember seeing satellite images back in August 1995 that showed the smoke but it was being blown offshore. Most of the fires were east of us out in eastern Long Island so they went offshore. I do remember seeing fires in NW NJ but they weren't as widespread as the Long Island fires.
  3. Poconos or Catskills? Close enough to benefit from noreasters and yet they also get remnants of lake effects streamers often enough, so there's both heavy wet snow and the postcard light dry snow that falls for days.
  4. I have a question for you Don, how come the air quality wasn't this bad in August 1995 when we had all those awful fires close by? This time it made me really sick and my blood pressure was around 190/115 during the worst of it.
  5. Extended heatwaves are really nice and don't happen much anymore. I love dry heat, not the humid wet stuff that makes me sick.
  6. Anyone who says that air pollution has somehow "gone away" is sorely mistaken, it kills millions of people every year and shortens life, especially near areas where diesel trucks go (mostly urban areas) by 10 years on average. Air pollution shortens life even more than smoking does. The toxic smog we had earlier in June made me really sick.
  7. It'll go by quickly, another nice long dry sunny stretch will begin on Tuesday and temps will start to warm up again by next Thursday and Friday.
  8. Don, what's the earliest 90 degree day on record for JFK-- the only time I remember JFK hitting 90 degrees in April was during the heatwave in April 2002? Did it also happen in April 1976? And I believe there have never been multiple days of 90+ at JFK in April have there? Thanks!
  9. So that must have been our earliest heat wave on record too since in 2002 we had 3 days of 90+ and peaked at 96 (same as 1976)-- I think the one in 1976 was displaced a day later?
  10. I wonder if that's ever happened before....the only April heatwave I remember happened during the great 2002, but that was in the second half of the month.
  11. and WABC7/Lee Goldberg said the sea breeze coming in around that time caused the fire to spread quickly. Yet another reason to hate the sea breeze (I hate it as much as the rain/snow line moving north).
  12. I've always hated the sea breeze because it makes the air more humid, I'd rather it come in closer to sunset and not spoil the hot temp party. I hate the sea breeze as much as I hate the rain/snow line moving north. And now ABC7/Lee Goldberg said just a few minutes ago that the sea breeze caused those fires to our north in Rockland County to spread more quickly as the wind speeds picked up. So that's another reason to hate the sea breeze.
  13. Is this the airport for Hartford?
  14. Something I've noticed about the sea breeze is the temperature experiences a jump just before the sea breeze comes in. It's almost like a temperature rise just before a cold front passes. And after the sea breeze comes through the sky clears out-- also similar to a cold front passage.
  15. wow that's amazing, they're still rising on a southerly wind...Tony I saw that JFK achieved a record high also, but got no higher than 85? And LGA?
  16. Don how close has NYC gotten to 90 so far?
  17. 2002 was another one where this happened, very blue skies, high temps and low humidity......absolute perfection!
  18. Yeah then we'll have days with a westerly wind when even JFK is hotter than NYC lol
  19. amazing how places in eastern SNE dont have the sea breeze
  20. Did NYC also beat EWR that day, Don?
  21. I love that haha, it would also be funny if Oceanside got a foot of snow and Long Beach got less than an inch lol.
  22. how is it they dont have a sea breeze and we do?
  23. NYC ahead of EWR is amazing lol
  24. I would love to see this in the summer, even a high of 100 with dew points like this wold feel great.
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