LibertyBell

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.

almost nothing here but lightning lol

Luckily we've only gotten a few raindrops out this way. It was mostly sunny up until an hour ago, lots of lightning now though

Yeah, for all the complaining it actually felt better this morning when it was cloudy and misty lol.

I loved walking right across lol

sounds like hydroponics!

I used to go to Atlantic Beach, I loved it there.

the 2010-2011 couplet goes into a long list of historically hot summers followed by very snowy winters, other couplets like that include 1955-56, 1966-67, 1977-78, 1993-94, 1995-96 and of course 2010-11

it's been mostly sunny all afternoon :-)

How high was surge from Sandy there? 9 feet?

I wonder if they need to make those beaches private and only let local residents have access?

Oh I love these, but don't they need to be in the water (like in a pond)?

it cleared out here just before 11 lol

How did you like 2010 when it was hot without too much humidity? I'd love to know how the Bermuda High was aligned that summer to give us such wonderful weather. To be more specific, how was it aligned in the July 4-7 period when JFK was 100+ on three out of four days? Was it similar to how it was aligned in early July 1966 when JFK was 100+ for three consecutive days?

the warmer air can also hold more moisture before it starts to rain.

I don't mind the no record high mins but it's rather boring without triple digit temperatures, luckily we got that in June, otherwise our summers have been mediocre since 2013.

It's been mostly sunny here since before noon.

I think the low was 50 even in Central Park in August 1986 in the period I referenced in my above post, Chris. It felt like early fall, very low humidity, clear blue skies, very crisp, my first time viewing the Perseids and it was the best I ever saw them from here. The only time I saw them better was from the Poconos a few years ago, in varying colors (something you can't see in a light polluted area like we live in.) You can't even see the Milky Way in our disgustingly high level of light pollution, something you can see in the Poconos even during twilight before the sky is fully dark!

I think it was August 1986 when we had a monthly record low of 50 somewhere in the August 11-13 timeframe when I was outside all night looking at the Perseids.... the bluest most hazefree skies I have ever experienced during summer in my entire life.

Sure, even during our extremely hot summers like 1944, 1949, 1953, 1955, etc we used to get breaks like that.

Much better food in Greece too.

hot weather with low humidity and clear blue skies is ideal summer weather! The years he went to Greece is probably when we had that kind of weather here (1991, 1993, 1995*, 1999, 2002). I'm putting an asterisk next to 1995 because although August was historically dry, late July had some of the most humid kind of heat I've ever experienced!