LibertyBell

it's getting darker here

Usually in the form of one big storm. It has juiced up the atmosphere, which is why 2015-16 was snowier than 1982-83 although it was warmer too.

okay just one more lol

one more

high temps were a few hours ago, on the south shore we peaked in the low 80s around 11 am

on the camera LCD live view this giant sunspot group looked like a large ant moving around on the sun.

wow thats pretty wild, that sunspot group near the middle is probably the one that caused the solar storm a few days ago and the resulting northern lights display. Here's one of mine from last year in May

Yep we were in the low 80s here at 10 am and have stayed there lol

it was even longer than that, 2002-03 through 2004-05 and 2009-10 through 2014-15 too

it's very similar to the late 80s we even had big southern snowstorms in 1988-89 and 1989-90 just like we did last winter

wow that sounds absolutely amazing, the smoke was your filter

There's some sort of cycle that sends storms here every 6-8 days or so. I wonder what it is.... This cycle won't be broken until we get a real dry spell, likely after June 20th.

Sunday looks to be dry but mostly cloudy. I don't think we're going to get an inch of rain out of this either.

If we were in space, the sun would look nearly white (because evolution has determined that we see our sun as nearly white, as it is the primary source of light on our planet and our eyes use that to adjust color balance.) Life on exoplanets would most likely see their sun as white for the same reason (even though we might see their sun as orange or red.) By the way the reason that photosynthetic plants are green is because green has the highest efficiency rate of absorbing light from a yellow sun. On an exoplanet with what we perceive as a red sun, we would see photosynthetic plants as purple for the same reason our photosynthetic plants are perceived by us as green. The atmosphere always has an effect on the color of the sun, the particles suspended in it decide on how much. A lucky shot I took with a solar filter on one of my cameras to capture the sunspot maximum we had last year, caught a bird flying through the frame and eclipsing the sun (yes the sky darkened for a brief second as the bird flew by, just like it would during a real eclipse.) I have another shot somewhere where a plane flew right in front of the sun.

Poughkeepsie too. I've noticed Poughkeepsie, Danbury and Scranton have all been hotter than us the last few years. So they beat us in snowfall in the winter and heat in the summer lol. Did you think it was curious that Montauk hit 80 degrees on a SW wind? I can understand how JFK hit 81 with only a short trajectory over water on a SW wind but how did Montauk hit 80 on such a wind?

https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/jamaica.htm#:~:text=The graph below shows the,historical sea surface temperature data.&text=The warmest water temperature is,°F %2F 4.4°C. (Today) 5th Jun 2025 16.9°C / 62.4°F https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/east-atlantic-beach.htm East Atlantic Beach Water Temperature (Today) 5th Jun 2025 17°C / 62.6°F

How far offshore is that buoy? Montauk reached a high of 80 today on a SW wind.....

I thought you wrote 53 at first, 58 is closer to the lower end of the 60-65 I saw for the south shore. I'm sure it's at least in the low 60s here, I'm quite a bit west of Jones Beach. Goldberg must have read the wrong report, I was amazed that it was 73 and used that to explain why Montauk was so warm 80 degrees today. IT HIT 80 DEGREES AT MONTAUK !! https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ny/montauk/Kmtp Summary Temperature (°F) Actual Historic Avg. Record High Temp 80 72 86 Low Temp 55 55.8 43 Day Average Temp 68.59 63.9 - Precipitation (in) Actual Historic Avg. Record Precipitation (past 24 hours from 04:53:00) 0.00 4.80 - Dew Point (°F) Actual Historic Avg. Record Dew Point 60.32 - - High 65 - - Low 53 - - Average 60.32 - - Wind (mph) Actual Historic Avg. Record Max Wind Speed 12 - - Visibility 10 - - Sea Level Pressure (in) Actual Historic Avg. Record Sea Level Pressure 30.01 - - Astronomy Day Length Rise Set Actual Time 15h 0m 5:17 AM 8:17 PM Civil Twilight 4:44 AM 8:50 PM Nautical Twilight 4:02 AM 9:33 PM Astronomical Twilight 3:13 AM 10:22 PM Moon: waxing gibbous 3:08 PM 2:04 AM Daily Observations Time Temperature Dew Point Humidity Wind Wind Speed Wind Gust Pressure Precip. Condition 12:53 AM 57 °F 56 °F 96 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 30.01 in 0.0 in Fair 1:53 AM 57 °F 56 °F 96 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.99 in 0.0 in Fair 2:53 AM 55 °F 54 °F 96 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.0 in Fair 3:53 AM 55 °F 54 °F 96 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Fair 4:53 AM 55 °F 53 °F 93 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Fair 5:53 AM 56 °F 54 °F 93 % CALM 0 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Fair 6:53 AM 62 °F 59 °F 90 % WSW 3 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.0 in Fair 7:53 AM 67 °F 61 °F 81 % VAR 5 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.0 in Fair 8:53 AM 71 °F 62 °F 73 % SW 7 mph 0 mph 29.97 in 0.0 in Fair 9:53 AM 72 °F 62 °F 71 % SW 7 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Fair 10:53 AM 73 °F 62 °F 68 % SW 8 mph 0 mph 29.95 in 0.0 in Fair 11:53 AM 75 °F 63 °F 66 % WSW 6 mph 0 mph 29.93 in 0.0 in Fair 12:53 PM 75 °F 62 °F 64 % SW 12 mph 0 mph 29.92 in 0.0 in Fair 1:53 PM 79 °F 64 °F 60 % WSW 12 mph 0 mph 29.90 in 0.0 in Fair 2:53 PM 80 °F 64 °F 58 % SW 8 mph 0 mph 29.89 in 0.0 in Fair 3:53 PM 80 °F 65 °F 60 % WSW 7 mph 0 mph 29.87 in 0.0 in Fair 4:53 PM 78 °F 65 °F 64 % WSW 8 mph 0 mph 29.87 in 0.0 in Fair 5:53 PM 78 °F 64 °F 62 % SW 10 mph 0 mph 29.86 in 0.0 in Fair

I would love to change the physical properties of water (its specific heat) so it would warm up and cool down much faster, like the land does. I wonder if there's a way to change the physical properties of water, hmmmm.

That's impossibly low. Lee Goldberg on WABC reported that the SST in our areas were between 60-65 but pointed out that Montauk was the warmest at 73 and that's why the temperature there was 78 at 4 PM. 69 in S NJ. The only place I'd imagine having a 53 degree SST would be somewhere around Greenland. edit oh you wrote 58 not 53 lol, that's a little more reasonable and closer to the 60-65 temperature Lee Goldberg reported for the south shore. But I wonder where he came up with the 73 degree SST for Montauk?

it's good to see we all made it into the 80s!!

I want a repeat of July 1993 / July 2010

5 pm update Central Park reached 87 and the AQI peaked at 161 which is bad for EVERYONE. They said that the Canadian wildfire smoke wasn't just in the upper atmosphere but made it down close to the ground too which added to the problem with ground level ozone which we had since yesterday. My high was 85 here and 91 inside my house so I turned on my a/c at 4:30

I just saw that the SST near Montauk are already up to 73! No wonder Montauk was at 78 degrees at 4 pm! It's warmer there than it is in south NJ (69) or Fire Island (65).