LibertyBell

Interesting-- I like drier here because drier means hotter. In the summer, when we have a wet one, it's also cooler because the sun's radiation is used up trying to dry the ground. I don't like averages because they don't properly account for day time extreme temperatures and hot days (highs above 90). That's how I judge a summer's heat.

The sun comes out during the day (like it is out now) and it's cloudy at night. It's mostly sunny now, about 6 hours too late.

Next total lunar eclipse is March 3 next year, at a more convenient time, totality begins at 6:04 am, 24 minutes before the moon sets. It's doable to take pictures of that here weather and clouds permitting, we had a similar one to that on November 8 2022 and I took these pictures between 6:18-6:30 and the moon set at 6:42 am.

when will the westerly flow resume? we need a strong enough westerly flow to overpower the ocean, that strong Pac jet should help

Haha this is awesome. Lots of money in this for any prospective space colonies we might build. PS you must have had an awesome view of the eclipse, I thought of you guys when I saw all the clear skies to the N&W.... did you get to see it, Rob? I woke up at 2:30 and waited until 3:30 but there wasn't even a little break in the clouds =\

!@#$% ocean ruins the eclipse for long island a solution to the sea level rise problem and to cloudy skies near the coast pump up 20% of ocean waters to the moon and mars We do not need 70% of this planet covered in water, it's way too much, especially with sea level rise. 50% land and 50% ocean is far better. Plus pumping the excess water to the moon and mars will get rid of this cloud pollution.

Talk about records-- on this date in March 1990 it was 85 degrees, on this day in March 1888 it was only 6 degrees ! That 6 might be the March monthly record set right after the big blizzard. The March 1990 temperature of 85 is close to the monthly record, I think it hit 88 the next day?

a lot of brownstones in Brooklyn have solar panels on their roofs from what I have read and even make money from it by selling excess power to their neighbors.

Talk about records-- on this date in March 1990 it was 85 degrees, on this day in March 1888 it was only 6 degrees ! That 6 might be the March monthly record set right after the big blizzard. The March 1990 temperature of 85 is close to the monthly record, I think it hit 88 the next day?

Today turned out much sunnier than anyone thought. We had a small period of clouds around noon but both before and after has been mostly clear, even last night. The clouds have been going to our north and our south but we're the clear part of the sandwich lol.

Con Edison is horrible, I heard they were trying to increase rates yet again. Highway robbery....

that predominant west wind, I think this will continue through the summer with some small breaks.

the forecast is for breaks in the clouds over NYC and western long island just in time for the eclipse even better inland the trend is our friend here, all week we've had more sun than forecast

Chris, something else I remember about that April heatwave is that they were haze free and one of the bluest skies I have EVER seen. This is also from that month.

When we had that really hot summer in 2002 (JFK had one of its highest number of 90 degree days-- their three top summers for them were 1983, 2002 and 2010 if I remember correctly), had the area recovered enough from the earlier drought? I do remember a lot of very yellow lawns in the summer of 2002. I actually have a couple of images of my lawn saved from that summer lol.

Thanks Rob, I've been looking for something like this.

I think the reason we didn't have wildfires in 2002 is because we didn't have this foliage overgrowth we have now from previous years of excessive rainfall. It's very much like California, they've been going through these drought-flood-drought cycles too and the flood periods result in massive overgrowth of foliage probably like what we have experienced with the last couple of decades of high rainfall now being corrected by the current dry period. If we keep having more extremes, not just in temperature, but also in rainfall and snowfall, then we and our environment are going to have to find some way to adjust. Incidentally, 2002 just got hotter and drier from this point on, beginning with that historic April heatwave that matched 1976 almost perfectly, but unlike 1976, it was followed by a very hot and dry summer (one of my all time favorites.) The pattern broke with the historic 2002-03 winter, yet another great winter followed by a hot and dry summer.

I have had this kind of thing happen around me for many years I call it *match* when someone else says or writes the same thing as I do, at nearly the same time. Sometimes it even happens with TV shows lol. Even word for word sometimes. Maybe consciousness is entangled between like minded people? About your scenarios, this is why many believe we're going to be reduced to pre industrial levels. It's nature having the last laugh, we mess with it, it finds a way to achieve a balance, at our expense of course. What you outlined in b, I find rather fascinating, it's like being on the boundary of a whole new world isn't it? What happens after mass extinctions is rapid evolution, completely different from what existed before of course. Remember the K-T event? We went from massive ferns and giant reptiles dominating the planet to flowering plants, feathery birds who evolved from the dinosaurs and tiny mammals who rapidly evolved into brainier ones by consuming high quantities of nuts, protein rich, mind you. These nuts did not exist before the K-T event happened. So mammals would likely have remained tiny rat like creatures if an asteroid did not hit the Yucatan. By the way, something I find so fascinating about nature regulating the environment, birds still have that gene that made the dinosaurs so huge, but it's been turned off. Why? Natural selection of course; the environment had become inhospitable to creatures the size of dinosaurs so the dinosaurs who survived-- the birds-- had that gigantism gene turned off. b, diaspora into an alien ecology, which is usually not good for the new ecology ... because it in itself does not posses the capacity to adapt to the change of having hordes of arriving opportunistic climate refugees. And I mean "clime refugees" not just human beings but all migrations up and down the biological kingdom.

we'll find out tonight. If that total lunar eclipse can be seen and it's exceptionally dark it means there are particles in the stratosphere that could lead to a global cooling trend which might have impacts on this summer and next winter. If the eclipse is bright red it means our stratosphere is clean and there is no impact.

August 1995, I was just talking about that on X earlier when someone said this has never happened before. That was a real wildfire system, the wildfires were widespread from Long Island to NJ and you could even see the smoke in satellite imagery! We have been doing prescribed burns in Nassau County which should help things from getting out of control.

he has solar panels?

I like my hot summers unfortunately it does not look like that for us, 2010 was my hottest summer on record.

The problem is there is needs to be a differentiation between what caused changes millions of years ago vs what's happening right now. The rate of change is MUCH faster now, for one. Also, I'm not sure humanity would survive if we went back to a Mesozoic era climate. For most of the history of this planet it was actually uninhabitable. Multicellular organisms only evolved in the last 600 million years.

it's raining in LA and SD and snow in the SD mountains though.

I don't even consider the measurement of *drought* to be accurate, the normal rainfall for NYC (as an example) is around 41-42 inches per year not the 50 inches or so we've been averaging the last period or so.