LibertyBell

could you have driven towards it to see what it was? looks intriguing

had another heavy rain squall and hail right around sunset, so scored 2 for the day

think we can get to the 30s?

why wouldnt there be a secondary maximum over the coastal regions, which are flat? I thought it was puzzling the High Wind Warning was to our west.

why are they predicting stronger winds in NJ and PA? They have a High Wind Warning there, usually the coast has the strongest winds because it's flat land.

There was hail and very heavy rain here for a period, like 2 Sundays ago, and a weird pungent smell of rain I haven't smelt in awhile

wow I see 32 right near my Poconos home

how close will freezing temps and snow showers get to us tonight, Don? NE PA?

Most of that must be March, April has only been slightly warm.

weird to see this happen in 1966 and 1977 two of our hot 11 yr summers and 1966 being the hottest until 2010...did it snow in May 1966?

a trace of snow on long island in May is like winning the world series lol. Since you were in Lynbrook and I was away in the Poconos were there two small periods of flurries and nothing stuck and did it get down to 32? Or 34?

I no longer believe we'll get a hot summer like I thought we would before, and that volcano in the Caribbean is the reason why. We might have one hot month, July, with about a 3 day window for extreme heat (100?) but I no longer believe the summer will be hot like an 11 yr cycle summer. Might be the 1977 variety, which was similar to what I just outlined.

Looks like snow will get to the Poconos

at 8 PM I was watching PBS a new series Greta Thunberg she must be the smartest human on the planet no one is even close at 16 in 2019 she was doing a speech off the top of her head to the entire world and everyone was transfixed with her because she is smarter than any political leader saw the presidential address after that saw the presidential address after that

https://www.vox.com/2021/4/23/22397532/climate-change-summit-biden-xi-jinping-jair-bolsonaro-winners-losers While the summit attendees sent a clear signal that coal is on the way out, they were far more lukewarm on another major contributor to climate change: natural gas. To hit the world’s 1.5 degree Celsius target, we’ll have to rein in methane, a type of greenhouse gas that is especially effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere and dangerous for global warming. While methane can come from a variety of sources, such as agriculture and landfills, environmentalists see regulating the oil and gas sector as the first place to start, by keeping the gas in the ground. Yet the industry seemed to get a pass at the summit — most leaders sidestepped methane and natural gas entirely in their speeches and announcements. Surprisingly, it was Russian President Vladimir Putin who drew the most attention to methane but stopped short of offering concrete commitments to halt plans to build natural gas pipelines. The less focus from world leaders on the oil and gas industry’s methane problems, the better, from the eyes of the industry, because it signals that there won’t be more regulation coming anytime soon. In the US, addressing methane is critical to meet Biden’s goal of slashing greenhouse pollution by 2030, but Biden has only offered a few clues for how his administration plans to tackle it. The fact sheet from the White House on Biden’s target only gives methane a brief and vague mention, saying, “The United States will also reduce non-CO2 greenhouse gases, including methane, hydrofluorocarbons, and other potent short-lived climate pollutants.” The nonprofit Clean Air Task Force has urged the US to adopt a target of reducing oil and gas emissions to 65 percent below its 2012 levels by 2025. Regulation in the US is still coming. Biden’s new EPA administrator Michael Regan promised the administration will roll out more aggressive policies to curb existing and new natural gas methane leaks than the Obama administration and plans to unveil its plans sometime by September. But the overall silence at the summit still signals that the world is not yet ready to ditch natural gas as quickly as it plans to ditch coal. —RL Loser: The goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius The 2015 Paris climate agreement has a topline goal of limiting the increase in global average temperatures this century to below 2 degrees Celsius, but it also has a secondary, more ambitious target of keeping warming below 1.5°C. Back in 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put out a major report looking at just how hard it would be to meet the 1.5°C target. It found that every degree of warming matters, with higher temperatures extracting a higher human and economic toll. The report concluded that to reach this goal, the world has until 2030 to slash greenhouse gas emissions by half or more from present. And 1.5°C is hardly a “safe” climate. The world has already warmed by at least 1°C on average, and the effects have been devastating. The longer the world waits to act to limit emissions, the harder it will get. The new US climate target — a 50 to 52 percent cut in emissions relative to 2005 by 2030 — “looks like it is consistent” with the 1.5°C goal, according to a senior White House official on a call with reporters on Wednesday. But according to Climate Action Tracker, a US commitment in line with this target would actually need a 57 to 63 percent cut. Many other countries have also said they are using 1.5°C as their benchmark for their climate commitments. Rhetorically, it seems there is widespread support for being more ambitious. However, it’s clear there’s a cavernous rift between commitments and actions. Global greenhouse gas emissions have only grown since the 2018 IPCC report. While there was a lull in this growth last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, emissions are poised to rebound around the world, including in the US, as economies reopen. So now the world has to make even more drastic cuts to greenhouse gases — and in less time. It’s easy to paint a target years into the future. It’s much harder to take aim today. And right now, that target is nowhere in our sights

I saw something today that made me really sad...... the "What could have been" kind of sad. It was a documentary on Jimmy Carter and how he was way ahead of the game when it came to climate change and renewable energy. He was the one who had solar panels put on the White House. He also had the framework for an early version of what became the Paris Climate Treaty. What could have been indeed...... at a time when we should've been making those changes already. If Jimmy Carter had had a second term, all of this would've become reality far sooner.

But with a dry wind doesn't that mean land breeze? There should be no sea breeze here today. I really wish we could artificially heat up the near coastal waters, temps in the 40s are absolutely offensive right now.

I used to think they were baseball's oldest franchise, but then I found out there have been several different Baltimore Orioles franchises (in both leagues!) Is this the only name that keeps getting recycled? I wonder why?

One thing I'm confused about Don, and maybe you could shed some light on this. NASA has just deployed a machine on Mars that is converting CO2 in its atmosphere to O2 (like plants do), why can't we scale that up and do that right here at home?

that sounds like an amazing time (50s and 60s), I noticed there were quite a few 100s back then in June, too, something we haven't seen since. NYC had three great baseball teams until the late 50s.....

I see China and India seem to be holding back, we really need to get them on board. I like the idea of rooftop solar, TWC has been doing a series all week about sustainability and it seems like it's taking hold even in northern states like Maine. It can work anywhere! The movie 2040 is amazing, a glimpse into a far more hopeful future......everyone should watch this: https://www.mediavillage.com/article/earth-day-special-2040-on-the-cw-takes-viewers-to-a-utopian-future/

I think this kind of consistent low dew point heat is a great sign for the summer

wow 1976 must've been unimaginably cold compared to today's standards.....funny thing is they had the three straight 90s in April just like 2002 did. What was JFK's lowest last May? I can't find it. This cold is much less prominent, only got down to 36 (still beat the 37 record from 2013)

in the 90s and 00s, we had a lot more of those amazing nice and warm April days (1990, 1991, 2002, 2010 especially)

yeah unfortunately, although I dont remember this many in the 90s or the 00s.....we did have the odd super cool and rainy spring and summer following the Pinatubo eruption though. We're just getting all kinds of crazy extremes much more now and my nose isn't happy. I put my heat at 80 today and it all went away.