LibertyBell

all Central Park records need to be put in a museum and do not update them anymore. With all the shit government is doing these days, why can't they overrule the Conservancy bring a bunch of chain saws and chop down the trees? You know if they cared they could.

Oh nice, you know how much I love spelling bees (I won trophies in those starting in 3rd grade and my last one was in 8th grade.) What's a geography bee like? Do you have to spell geography place names or is it like the game Geography where you have to name a place that starts with the same letter the previous place someone said ended with? I love that game too-- I played it a lot in my middle school years (7th and 8th grade.)

That absolutely sucks and reminds me of February 2006 when the city had over 2 feet of snow and I had 13 inches lol, it must have been the same thing. What everyone thought was an HECS I thought was a run of the mill midwinter snowstorm. What made it even worse was that was basically the only snowstorm of the entire winter for my area.

08-09 was a much better winter than the previous two and it kicked off our snowier pattern. We had our first snowy noreaster in like 3 years on March 1, 2009.

March 2014 was very bad here, maybe better by you because you're south of us and there was a lot of suppression that winter. 2014-15 finished very strong but December - January 20th was mild and basically snowless.

it always seems to be like that, the part of December that's snowy being the early part and a thaw later in the month and then winter ramps up again in January. in 2013-14 winter was over here after February, we didn't get anything of significance in March and especially not April. 2014-2015 for what it's worth was a far superior winter here with a very snowy January-February-March (but not December.)

That just makes for a boring summer, I'm glad we got the historic heat in late June, otherwise this summer would be VERY mediocre.

I'm glad you remember it as well as I do, Ray. I feel like the younger kids won't remember that kind of winter....

It's probably not going to be all hot all the time either. Saturday looks cooler and drier now with the cold front making it down to Baltimore. Sunday looks wet. The hot days are really just Friday and Tuesday.

For the nation as a whole there seems to be an 11 year cycle-- 1933, 1944, 1955, 1966, 1977, 1988, 1999, 2010, 2010, 2021, the next one would be 2032. Other years around those years are very hot too, it's just that the above are the hottest of their era.

2010 had our hottest summer here

hydrothermal vents need to be protected at all costs, that is where life on this planet began and is the closest to alien life that we have on this planet.

Two of our hotter summers were 1933 and 1936, so I find that really interesting Was 1944 very hot in Phoenix too Don?

it's the first 4 day break with zero rain since early June.

It was a busted forecast for us, 8-15 inches forecast turned into 1-2 inches of slop lol. This is the 14 year anniversary of the hottest two day period of most of our lives! This past June was of a similar magnitude.

But none of those were wall to wall winters. 08-09 was decent but mostly had small events, January was dry and cold 09-10 ended after February 10-11 ended after January 13-14 ended after February 14-15 began on January 20 15-16 started on January 20 and ended on February 20 None of these measure up to 93-94, 95-96 and 02-03.

and yet we still have not had winters like 1993-94 and 1995-96 and 2002-03 here in terms of wall to wall snow and wall to wall cold. 2002-03 was the last of those winters here.

Big Oil already has a fall back, it's plastics and the petrochemical industry. Fossil fuels will be used and utilized for the next 100 years or more in some way shape or form. We were always fooling ourselves thinking we could stop using them, it's like telling ourselves we can stop drinking water. Instead it would have been much better to balance it out with other forms of fuel. Including nuclear. Stopping nuclear was the worst thing we ever did. If there was a way to go back in time to change things, the most effective change would have been to promote nuclear much more and put more funding into nuclear reactors. We already had the technology in the 80s, it should have been expanded then.

tied with 2010 over there for 90 degree days!! I'm shocked 1993 and 1999 aren't up there too. Was the highest temperature ever recorded there in July 2011??

Yes completely clear here now!!

Even better than yesterday (more sun, more of a breeze.)

Now next Tuesday is forecast to be hotter here than Friday because now Friday has a 60% chance of rain.

what are the highest 7 year means for NYC and for JFK, Chris?

what caused that extreme el nino?

2011: Chicago set an all-time daily record rainfall when 6.86 inches fell during the early morning hours of Saturday, July 23, 2011, at O'Hare airport. The previous daily record was 6.64 inches set on September 13, 2008. wild while Chicago was flooding, we were in the midst of a 2 day extreme bake off. Today was the second day of the bakeoff: Records: Highs: EWR: 102 (2011) NYC: 100 (2011) LGA: 100 (1955) JFK: 102 (2011) New Brnswck: 105 (2011) LGA: 59 (1992) JFK: 59 (1992) I also remember Pinatubo cooled 1992....the year without a summer (we had a quick rubber band effect between 1991-1992-1993).