LibertyBell

I'm surprised it grew so fast, it wasn't anything like this last Friday, can it really grow this fast in 5 days?

We really needed this heavy rain this morning..... we needed it so much that there are large vines in my mailbox and blocking my front door. Lovely. I'm going to be spraying defoliant all weekend.

you'd love the 101/45 of July 4, 2010 a lot more and so would our power grid.

some of this crappy overgrowth needs to die.

I'm not sure how we'd live if we had another year that dry.

Yes, I think we're reaching a tipping point where eventually those records will be broken, even if the years are wetter. Probably for the coastal areas too.

That was quite an achievement during the 2010-2013 era (JFK's last time was 2013), we had drier Julys back then, Tony.

It rained less back then, I think there were less trees because it was a drier era. Look at NYC's rainfall total from 1966, which was one of only two years in which NYC had 4 100+ days (the other was 1953-- in the same era) In 1966, NYC only had 26 inches of rain, nowadays we get that in a few months lol. LGA hit 107 in 1966 exceeding the 106 that NYC hit in 1936 (also in the same era.)

it matches the 5 years in the 1991-2002 period Tony, of which 1993 is at the top. 1993 and 2010 being at the top doesn't surprise me, since they were also two of our driest years. 2022 did well to come in third place, matching 1944 and 1988.

Yes indeed.... did you see Miami's historical record? I was shocked they only hit 100 in their entire recorded history and that was back in 1942.

One can argue that trees are part of our natural environment, while concrete is not.

95 with a dew point of 78 is MUCH worse (and much more boring) than 101 degrees and a dew point of 45 or even 55.

Looking at pictures from the 1930s-1950s era, I think that was a much drier era with much less foliage in our parks, which explains the more extreme heat of that era.

Yes Newark being inland has seen a rise in 90 degree days but not 95 or 100 degree days. So the wetter climate has been tempering their extreme heat too. But 1950 wasn't one of those hotter years like 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955. But I agree about mins, they are definitely elevated compared to the previous era.

So there hasn’t been any long term decline in 100° days in NJ and Central Queens away from the cooling influence off the bay at LGA during the 2020s. Oh yes there's been a notable decline in 100 degree heat, nothing to match 1993's 9 days of 100+ or 1949's 8 days of 100+ at EWR..... cmon Chris, CC has more of an influence on mins than it does on maxes and thats because of our new wetter climate. It's got way more to do with more rainfall and more of a subtropical rainforest climate we have now vs what we had in the 1930s-50s and the 1990s.

EWR: 97 (1993) now this is what a real hot summer is like....something we haven't seen in a long time.

as usual in our new climate, this isn't the 1950s.

101 degrees with a dew point of 45 would be far more comfortable and represent a lower power load.

I predicted this shit days ago.

Yes as usual in our new climate, without the 100+ highs.

It's a tropical rain forest here, I have so much overgrowth going on here that I'm spraying defoliant to kill everything. I have no time to cut this forest I have going on in my front yard, so spraying it is.

mean temps have no real connection to extreme highs, during the summer mean temps are mostly driven by elevated mins, we have the same thing going on here. I can prove this, we have seen an overgrowth of foliage with the wetter climate we have been in. This isn't merely about them neglecting trimming the foliage, it's about this kind of overgrowth not being in existence in the 1930s-1950s when we had many more extremely hot days and a much drier climate. The pictures you posted prove it-- during that earlier era we did not have as much foliage as we have now in our parks and that's because it was much drier back then, which is also why the extreme heat was much hotter Sure, the places you listed just now are hotter, but it's because they exist in an artificial concrete climate without much in the way of trees. Coast or no coast, there is no way we would EVER match the extreme heat of the 1930s-1950s except for brief intervals like the 1990s and the early 2010s, unless we switch back to a much drier climate.

This isn't the same Chuck that we had in 2006-07 *warmest winter ever* LOL

mean temps have no real connection to extreme highs, during the summer mean temps are mostly driven by elevated mins, we have the same thing going on here.

good point about the 60s-80s but the 30s-50s period might be part of a cycle and when it repeats it will be even hotter....also much drier back then. The atmosphere is taking on the properties of water in terms of specific heat with how humid and wet it's become lol