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The good old days with low pollen counts and better air quality.

Some of my windows are better insulated than others so I'm thinking I'll leave it off those windows and just use the kits on the windows that need it, like the one in my bathroom and bedroom where my door actually slams when the wind blows =\

I have it but it still somehow gets in, I'm going to look at 3M window insulation kits.

That was amazing and low humidity too! To be fair I have certain benchmarks for the highest temperatures I expect to see each month-- it's 70s in March, 80s in April, 90s by June. I consider that we should have a four month snow season (DJFM), two months of spring weather (AM), four months of summer (JJAS), and two months of autumnal weather (ON). Ant's 6 months of winter is unreasonable, even when we get snow in November or April it's not really part of our snow season....4 months is the most we should reasonably expect.

Yup snowing south of I-80 near Jim Thorpe now. Where is that-- is it near I-80?

Need it, the wind is making it cold and no sol for natural solar heating. It's snowing at my other house in the Poconos right now.

Yes and it has hit 130 there in the last couple of years. Looks like the most extremely hot places are still getting hotter.

Dont care how "warm" it's been, today is !@#$% cold I have my heat up at 80

and that's a full on Dakota blizzard isn't it? I believe that's also going to give Seattle snow on Wednesday. When was the last time Seattle had accumulating snow in April?

is that close to the Poconos? I wonder if it's been snowing in the mountains around Lake Harmony this weekend? For some reason parts of the south are colder than we are, with freezing temps down to Georgia? I also heard it might snow next week in Seattle. We're going down into the 30s tonight.

Chris, the run from yesterday actually looks warmer than the one from today (notice the blues over our area on the more recent run.)

Awesome....can you pull up a map of April 19-20, 1983....I think we had a storm like this on that same date in 1983 lol....ended up with like 2"-4" of snow in the city and on Long Island

Mt Baker I think? I have it programmed into YoWindow. I tried to find every four letter airport code that averages over 200 inches of snow a year and all locations that have experienced temperatures of 125 and hotter and temperatures of -90 and colder (and -120 and colder for Antarctica.) Those are the two things I love-- snowiest places and most extreme temperature records.

After the week we had, today felt positively heavenly.

Interesting-- so now we're cooling the local climate through land use but also making it more humid? That black cloud of dust during the peak of the Dust Bowl is what fascinates me-- that made it all the way to the east coast! Also, if we take Central Park out of the equation and we only go by JFK and LGA records, both had their hottest day in that excellent 1966 summer. LGA hit 107 which was the highest temperature ever recorded in the city and JFK hit 104. I believe they missed that in 2011 by only one degree! Weird that NYC also underreported the temperature in 1966, it was "only" 103 there. 1966 was our hottest summer until 2010 came along.

Geoengineering is something that will become a necessity sooner rather than later.

I would say there is a 95% chance we can't even make 2 C let alone 1.5 C. These pipe dreams need to be replaced with reality.

First 70+ day for JFK on Tuesday?

This definitely jives with my memory of the 1990s being my favorite summery decade with multiple years setting 90+ records. The shocker was the 1930s-- I only know of 1933 and 1936 being extremely hot, I guess the Dust Bowl highly influenced the heat in that decade? What seems odd is that from what I recall reading, it was the persistent La Nina combined with bad farming practices that caused that....and we've had a persistent La Nina again....so why haven't we ever seen a repeat of that kind of heat? NYC's record from 1936 still stands.

An easy to see effect of this is that prime lobster fishing season has been moving farther and farther north with time.

It also reminds me of the east coast of Florida. We're already starting to see the changing TC tracks with the storm last year that tracked from Bermuda to Rhode Island. The other thing I worry about with this is the increasing levels of pollen and the bugs that seem to come earlier and earlier and stay later and later. We might need to have widespread spraying for mosquitoes every year soon like they do in Florida.

Does this mean the climate models were wrong? I distinctly remember that back in 2020 the prediction was made that NYC would average 3 100+ days every summer by 2050 and NYC's climate would become like Atlanta's. Will there come a time when the warming will become so extreme that it won't matter where the high is anchored or how much it rains, coastal areas will hit 100 no matter what?

we didn't even have a real drought in 2010 when we had my favorite summer ever.

the fossil fuel cartels need to have their subsidies come to an immediate end and they need to be forced to foot the bill for climate change disasters.

We do need to decrease wasteful energy consumption for a number of reasons. As an astrophotographer I am amazed at all the electricity wasted powering cities late at night, there is no evidence that it increases safety whatsoever but there is evidence that it has serious health side effects including increasing rates of cancer. I am glad that we've banned fracking here and in nearby states, people have seen the light with the environmental damage it does that's why I'm a hard NO! on methane (so-called "natural" gas)... it's banned in NY, NJ and eastern PA.