LibertyBell

it's so sunny here I have some hope for the eclipse tonight!

I'm not sure how many understand the whole concept of a runaway greenhouse effect or how a chain reaction works. That's basically what's going to happen here. Think of nuclear meltdown-- even if we somehow "boomerang" from that, the damage is already done, and in this case it's actually worse than a nuclear meltdown because on the scale of the planet, things will keep getting worse even after the meltdown stops.... It also reminds me of the chemical industry and Dow and the pesticide chlorpyrifos which damages developing brains. Dow asked California to let them use more of it than regulations allowed, promising they would use less the following year and it would all even out in the end. In typical corrupt corporate form, they never used less....and it had to be outright banned in CA (it's banned here in NY too.)

That makes me wonder are there actually storms that just keep circling the earth over and over again?

100 degree predictions, Tony?

there will be hell to pay if that eclipse doesn't work out tomorrow night, the clouds can go away forever

how long does it take for a cutoff low to disintegrate on its own if it doesn't go anywhere? It has to sometime right-- eventually high pressure will fill up the low and it will dissipate.

its lot rainier and crapper than it was in the 80s and 90s

for me clear and dry air gets rid of all pollen, the rain and humidity makes it much worse

it better be clear tomorrow night, these clouds can go away now

I want a device to be invented to suck the clouds into space and get rid of them forever I hope we get to see the eclipse tonight but if we don't you can be sure I'm going to find a way to make all the clouds go away forever

I remember that-- it turned out to be the hottest day of the entire year and it only hit 90 once more that year after May, and that was on the last day of August! We went through almost the entirety of summer without a single 90 degree day! It was very humid too! I remember one day was overcast with a temp of 80 and humidity of 100%! I believe Islip hit 98 or 99 too. Question-- why is it that none of the local forecasts have this kind of heat predicted-- they all say we're going to be in the 70s next Saturday? I see 1992 up there too! I don't remember that heat at all! Wasn't 1992 the year without a summer-- Pinatubo made that summer very cold-- it was another one without any 90s!

Looks like the highest positive anomalies will be near the coast? Maybe we can get close to 90 here too.

Plenty of birds singing here, I even yelled at them to stop because they're just so damn loud. They even woke me up one night around 2:30 am....what on Earth could possess birds to sing in the middle of the night and what kind of birds could they possibly be?

Yes 100 degrees in MAY! A dream come true!

wow 1992 was the coolest summer in my memory

long island was nice and sunny

Didn't it snow here in May 2020?

It was actually sunny for most of the day, that low is far away from us.

https://grist.org/science/can-the-world-overshoot-its-climate-targets-and-then-fix-it-later/ Overshoot is a bad idea

Aren't the oceans supposed to be heating up?

Don wasn't the 1930s Dust Bowl era as well as the extinction of the Mayan civilization linked to persistent La Nina patterns? Perhaps we are headed into another one of those with widespread geopolitical consequences including mass migrations, wide ranging droughts, etc.

forget the lows no one cares about them because people are sleeping when they happen. BRING ON THE 100+ HIGHS. I'm a big advocate of judging heat by highs and ignoring the lows.

Didn't JFK also exceed 100 during the 1977 heatwave? 102 or 103?

as I thought the 90s were in a league of their own

LGA area has also gotten much hotter and much more built up. They always bake early in the morning too-- I never trust temperatures from that part of the city. Best approach is to use an average of all area sites EWR,JFK,NYC,LGA