LibertyBell

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).

Looks like we won't see dry and coolish weather like we have had the last few days until the first week of August?

1999 had one of our hottest summers and 2 of our longest heatwaves ever. I'm surprised July 2010 isn't up there at your station though.

Yes but unfortunately rainy Sunday.

What was the low at JFK yesterday and today, Chris? Here we made it to 66 this morning while it was 67 yesterday morning.

He truly was one of the most fair and truly good people I've ever known on here.

My question is why is this happening in the Pacific but not in the Atlantic? Or maybe it's beginning to now?

we're going to start geoengineering with aerosols beginning in 2030, we won't be waiting for a volcanic eruption.

Look at how the peak of the last +AMO was higher too, maybe thats why we saw many more east coast hurricanes from the 30s through the 50s and also many more long duration heatwaves in that same period (up to 1966) than we have seen with the current +AMO

wow Ray, so this a 40-45 year cycle? at this rate the next one will be around 2037-2042 lol. note that the current peak is lower than the previous peak, maybe thats why we have not seen as many east coast hurricanes (and long duration heatwaves) as we did back in the 30s, 40s and 50s? The last flip happened around 1967, and our last really hot summer in that period was 1966.

I think it will also cause more political unrest and more conflict too. There's a strong correlation between hotter weather and more violence.

It seems to be delayed, but it has to happen eventually? Maybe a modified version of one?

It's why we need geoengineering John. Blue Green Algae are/were the greatest geoengineers of all time and without them none of us would be here today.