LibertyBell

there's a tornado in there near South Plainfield!!

it's just started to rain here in SW Nassau lots of thunder too, very dark it went from 93 at 1:10 to 86 at 1:30 lol

does that mean it's melted hailstones??

So you lived in Long Beach in 1976-77 and 1977-78? You saw the epic February 1978 blizzard there then! I always thought the 14" JFK reported was way too low-- it was probably too hard to measure snow accurately with so much wind! Were the waterways around Long Beach completely frozen in 1976-77? It must have been a shock to the system when JFK recorded their earliest ever 90 degree day in April 1977!!

Yes, 2010 was the only summer I have seen that JFK had 30+ 90 degree days 10+ 95 degree days and 3+ 100 degree days. NYC did it in 1993 too. Those were my two favorite summers.

I feel bad for those people that live near those highways. There's also a strong link between children who grow up near highways and autism. It's probably the strongest environmental link there is.

lol it was a sauna here this morning as hot as it was yesterday, but after 1 pm the temperature suddenly dropped from 93 at 1:10 pm to 86 at 1:30 pm and now I hear thunder and it looks like it's raining at Yankee Stadium??

The reason I said mountaintop is because I've been in the Poconos during the summer and it does get into the 30s there a few nights every summer and it's quite refreshing. I've never seen it happen in July though, it's happened in the first half of June and the last half of August a bunch of times.

Duel powered vehicles are better in that they don't impact the grid or the climate much, you really have the best of both worlds. We do have an awful consumerist philosophy, eventually we're going to have to retire diesel trucks that ship our goods from coast to coast and replace them with electric trucks.

it's the average over the entire planet, so taking that into account, people have the choice not to smoke (and very few do anymore) while people don't really have a choice when it comes to air pollution-- it affects minority communities even more because thats where the polluting factories and diesel trucks usually are. I saw an estimate for Oakland that stated that air pollution has shortened life expectancy there by 8 years, 2.5 years was the planetary average-- so it's much worse in some communities than it is in others.

this sounds like 1976-77 lol

and this is why we are seeing the spraying of so many pesticides

The question is, do we actually want that kind of climate? I would say no, because it would be horrible for the growing season. The ideal climate is a nice compact winter with lots of snow in January and February, around 3 to 5 feet of snow and then a nice dry hot summer with 30 90 degree days 10 95 degree days and 3 100 degree days. I know I'm being very specific .... because my favorite season was the period from 2009-10 to 2010-11 for both winter and summer.

this is our best summer since 2010-2011 the ones after 2013 were all mediocre

This is probably a good thing for the growing season to be longer? I remember August 1986 that was my first Perseid meteor shower and it was a crystal clear sky with no haze temperatures near 50, felt like early fall. That first time had the best viewing conditions of any time I've seen it since (outside of the times I've seen them in the Poconos away from light pollution.)

Thanks Don, I was wondering how Central Park missed out on it. This could be the event I remember when my area got 4-5 inches of rain and NYC got little or nothing. The storms stalled over our area for 4 hours. We got an inch per hour for 4 hours. Do you have local PNS rainfall totals for this event Don? I remember it happened in the afternoon after a sunny morning.

The problem is there are still diesel trucks around. Air pollution shortens life by about 2.5 years even more than tobacco smoking does. There are asthma hot spots in northern Queens and in the Bronx in the highest trafficked areas. Do you know Cancer Alley in Louisiana? They have another one in Oakland.

the sun coming back out now let's see if we can make a run at 95, it would be my fourth consecutive 95+ day, I don't remember the last time that happened here lol

they still do that omg it smells like charcoal. at least when I've seen it done in the Poconos it happened in Fall and it made me feel warmer during the cold days lol

yes the sun is coming back out again it's not that different from yesterday lol what happened to that front?

It probably won't fall below the 80s until close to tomorrow morning?

I want that for my whole season

it hit 93 here lol

NO2 car pollution is much worse today and thats why we have much higher asthma rates now. it got lower during the pandemic. People need to stop driving cars.

obviously JFK was the hot spot today lol