LibertyBell

The downside of rainy patterns in the summer are more pests and more spread of infectious disease. I fully expect West Nile and Lyme disease to be rampant this summer because of all this cursed rainfall.

we need to start spraying chemicals to eradicate them, even if it means killing off insects

thank you, math heads confuse the definition between warm and hot, the two mean different things. above average does not mean *hot*

This is an interesting thought. September has become more summery than June is.

But it's not a hot summer either, hot has a specific definition that refers to a high number of 90 and 95 degree days and 100 degree days too. We used to get these frequently in the 40s and 50s, as most of our heat records are from that era (with another peak in the 80s, 90s up to 02.)

yes we can call it a warm summer, but hot has a specific definition that refers to extreme temperatures while warm can merely refer to elevated averages from higher mins.

yeah this weather will only make more people sick it's why I need to do extensive spraying tick bites for animals are way above normal by the way glad to see you're coming around to my way of thinking that above average temperatures does not mean it's hot. I know it's a nuanced discussion but *hot* has a specific definition and a rainy summer even with +2 temperatures with a low number of 90 and 95 degree days and no 100 degree days is not a hot summer. the whole thing about average temperatures I feel is used to construct a narrative by people that just isn't true and doesn't pass the eye test. And I'm someone who knows full well about and agrees with climate change science. But I know what a hot summer is and above average with lots of rain and a low number of hot days just does not cut it.

EWR: 102 (2011) now this is real heat, not bogus *above average* temperatures that some people confuse with heat

above normal doesn't cut it for me, as averages can be elevated without any hot days, just a lot of rain and elevated minima. this is why warm and hot describe completely different things we can be above normal without any hot days or any sunshine for that matter that's not a hot summer.

cool (like today) or warm but definitely not hot. above normal = warm hot = large number of 90 and 95 degree days and a few 100 degree days thrown in. That's how I view warm vs hot. warm describes elevated averages while hot refers to number of hot days (this is how the NWS describes it too). when talking about hot days, elevated minima are not factored in as the word *hot* as a specific definition refers to how high the high temperatures are. the excessive rain is why our number of hot days is down.

I found out something interesting watching Jeopardy the other night. Cooperstown was named after the family of the great writer, James Fenimore Cooper :-)

Yes really, anyone talking about how CC is making our summers *hotter* is only referring to minimum temps.

No, where is this place, upstate?

My neighbors are complete morons. The rains came and dowsed their fire so they poured oil on the fire which then caused it to flare up and almost ended up burning themselves and their 5 year old kid who was dancing around the fire.

I really detest this new climate

Couldn't have one completely good day.... at least it was sunny for the big parade lol. I hate our new Ireland climate. CC summers mean cool and rainy for us. and if it's not cool and rainy it's warm and rainy, but never truly hot.

Are they too cold because of trying to dampen down their overproduction of TCs? Why adjust global models for TCs anyway? That's not what global models are for! Use tropical models for TCs and use global models for temperate cyclones.

It's definitely much better in the Poconos.

it's windy and my neighbors have an open fire going between our two houses, I can smell the burning fat from here, I just hope they don't burn down both our houses.

for suffolk county not until after 4 pm

It was perfect until about 5 minutes ago lol

we need to put all this excess moisture on the upcoming lunar colony and the future colony on Mars, they'll need it MUCH more than we do.

it finally got cloudy here at 3 pm

I think July 1966 was hotter, it had the highest temperature of record at both LGA (107) and JFK (104) and EWR (105) which was tied twice in 1993 and later broken in 2011 (108). NYC somehow only recorded a maximum of 103 in 1966, which was 4 degrees lower than LGA and a degree lower than JFK.

We're still holding onto mostly sunny here although I do see clouds building to my south.