LibertyBell

This is a big heat signal, I notice that when TS moisture misses us to our east, we almost always get big heat (even as late as October.)

all this humidity could be converted to drinking water

After today our next chance of rain will be Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow will feel far worse than when it hit 100+ on back to back days in June.

The sun has come out here and the skies have cleared out and that has made the day intolerable. I love heat but hate humidity and this is one of those days you actually want to be cloudy. I imagine tomorrow will be much worse, I see even the south shore of Long Island will probably hit the low 90s tomorrow from my local forecast.

That 26 foot rise on that river in one hour was pretty crazy, I'm not sure if there was much that could have been done. They did have flash flood warnings out from what I read, but the expectation was for 4-6 inches of rain not the 20+ inches that actually happened. That's where I think climate change comes in, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture and thus makes events like these more likely.

Yep it's a big waste of money. I think China tried it too. Anyone who has tried it realizes it costs more money than any benefits it produces.

You can hold government accountable for aiding and abetting climate change though. Even if it's done in this way, showing rage at greedy institutions isn't a bad thing. The government of Texas is utter crap and their hypocritical *empathy* when all they care about is making money should make them think twice before backing the fossil fuel cartels. It's similar to their position on gun control when school shootings happen. It's more about climate change than it is politics (although maybe some of these people don't believe in climate change, which is ironic lol.)

1993: The day after lightning started several fires, strong non-thunderstorm winds blew across much of northern Oklahoma. Winds gusted to 70 mph and lasted for several hours. A 1,200 pound bale of hay was rolled a quarter mile by the winds that also blew down many trees. Highway 51, near Hennessey, was closed until the downed trees could be cleaned up.When clusters of thunderstorms collapse and dissipate rapidly, they sometimes produce a downburst of very warm air, called a "heat burst ". A collapsing thunderstorm in the northeast part of the Texas Panhandle produced a heat burst that reached Arnett and Gage, OK just before midnight. Winds gusted to 67 mph at Arnett, as the temperature rose from 82° to 97° in 30 minutes. At Gage, the wind gusted to 70 mph, while the temperature rose from 85° to 102° in one hour. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) These are the amazing heat bursts we have been talking about.....

2010: BWI recorded record high temperatures on 4 days: 6th (105 °F), 7th (101 °F), 24th (101 °F) and 25th (100 °F).DCA soared to a record 102 °F on the 7th and 101 °F on the 24th. Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 all the historically hot summers were setting records right now.... Records: Highs: EWR: 103 (1993) NYC: 100 (2010) LGA: 101 (2010) JFK: 100 (2010) see no foliage interference when it's historically hot.....

Time to start spraying! Why don't the birds eat all of them?

I think everyone will be cloudy and overcast though (like it is right now). So even if it's not raining it's going to look gloomy and depressing.

Social media is going wild right now about artificially generated storms that do not move and Grok isn't helping by stating that rain in Texas is artificially generated lmao. The good thing is people want to hold government accountable for these disasters, it's about time. https://x.com/grok/status/1941888242129002986 Yes, weather modification via cloud seeding is practiced in the US to enhance rainfall and suppress hail. In Texas, seven active programs cover ~31 million acres, overseen by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Recent bills aim to restrict it, like Sen. Hughes' SB 1154 (March 2025). It's not "chemtrails," which are a myth. Sources: TDLR, GAO report.

It's the worst weather disaster we've had in MANY years, flooding can be really deadly. Sometimes I wish that they would just dam up rivers that are prone to this kind of flooding.

Looks like Tuesday might be our next shot at widespread 90 degrees, Tony??

wow that sounds much like our March 2010 noreaster when we had 80 mph winds!!

Do you think it will be like last Thursday was??

It sucks because the last three days were so great. I didn't even mind the storms on Thursday because they led to a very rare triple rainbow here just before sunset.

I'd be willing to hazard a guess that the allergies were much lower back then too. I actually didn't have the kind of allergies I have now back in the 80s and 90s. Maybe for a brief period (like one or two weeks) in the spring. Now it's 6 months out of the year. By the way, I'm shocked the wind speed record is over 50 years old, you'd think that either Sandy or the December 1992 noreaster would hold that record.

the elevation is necessary to get above the shadows of the surrounding buildings.

Yep, as I thought, today is the last good day we will have for awhile, at least the weekend pattern has been changed.

mostly cloudy with scattered heavy showers is a wash out to me.

But much more representative of the concrete jungle urban conditions present in the city.

That's a great idea, if we have a mesonet location in the Park we can actually compare it to the *official* NWS ASOS.....and maybe some corrective factor can be applied to the ASOS (both for temperatures and wind speeds)?

Did we have less trees in the 40s, 50s and 60s when all those 100+ readings and 7+ day heatwaves were happening (as well as years like 1993 and 1999) or was there overgrowth because of the higher rainfall totals we have now? Maybe it's a combination of both? And more rainfall also means more water retention by the foliage which also makes for a slower temperature rise. I agree we need to get the equipment out of that area. We also need to remove some of these trees, I notice we have a lot of parasitic trees that really do not belong here. Tree of *Heaven* being a case in point.

Yeah thats why I said we might have days of rain starting Tuesday, now it looks like it might begin Monday =\