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wow, such a difference between 70-75-80 lol. No chance of catching the 70 record is there (I assume 80 is out of reach?) 80 is actually a tipping point for me, where I have to use A/C But the last couple of days I've had to turn it on when the temps reached 75, so maybe that's a more accurate indication. I have a lot of sunlight coming in too. Today is actually enjoyable, although I was shivering last night.

Thanks, JFK isn't close to any of their records are they?

Thought we would have more tropical activity with all this warmth- what happened?

How close to the record for 70 and 80 degree days for Newark, Don?

it would be if another insect declared war on this intruder lol

I'm just trying to figure out what's causing it because they hit all of a sudden at 3 in the afternoon and lasted all night. And today everything was fine, no allergies at all.... I mean WTH is going on lol. About the mosquitoes.....they somehow snuck into my house and bit me on both feet It felt awful

Get in on this thread There are some climate change denialists in there saying some super dumb things

I love these! The Golden Age hard cover collections I have are anthologies of classic short stories and novellas from this time period. Do you have any personal favorites? The Tumithak series was one of my personal favorites......

I came up with an idea - let's see if you agree with me on this. So yesterday a bunch of us had some extremely angry reactions to the news which was completely understandable, but thinking more deeply on it and wondering what could be done to nudge politicians to do the right thing, how about this..... So the inspiration for this was finding out that 250 or so notable and pre-eminent scientists wrote a letter to the president begging him to do something substantive about climate change. My thought- that's all fine and dandy and I remember when a large group of famous scientists also wrote a letter.....to Truman, begging him not to use the atomic bomb. Did it work? No. Does it look like this letter will work? No! So how about we try a different tactic. All scientists who agree that climate change is an existential threat should immediately walk out, go on strike, stop teaching, stop researching and whatever else they do in their jobs and careers. Quit if need be. We need a nationwide strike by all scientists of good will who think climate change is an existential threat. If they truly believe that it is, and it definitely, let's grind all progress in this country to a halt, right now. Not a week from now, not a month from now, not a year from now, right effing NOW. Stop researching new drugs, stop teaching at colleges and universities, even walk out of your government science jobs at the CDC, the NWS, leave all of it right now. Send a strong message that you won't tolerate this hypocrisy we have going on and being in bed with the dirty fossil fuel cartels. Let's have a major strike by all scientists of good will, just like we had major strikes during the civil rights era in the 60s. Shut everything down, grind all progress to a halt. I see nurses are going on strike for better pay......this is an even better reason for all people in STEM fields to go on strike and make this country grind to a halt. The world is watching and the world will notice this. It will show that we mean business, even if means crashing the economy and whatever else, if you truly believe this is an existential threat this is a sacrifice you MUST make. Just like it was done for civil rights. After all, no matter what some lame so-called "superpowers" might think civil rights ARE environmental rights AND environmental rights ARE civil rights! The two have always gone hand in hand and must continue to do so as we fight the existential crises that we all face.

get rid of the so-called tree of heaven, problem solved

I mean it's more like early September weather, which is ideal. Ideal is temps in the 70s for highs and 50s for lows

It is, there is marshland in that area around JFK, while LGA is in one of the built up sections of the city. You couldn't pay me enough to live near LGA, it's also one of the most air polluted parts of the city.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1449093237424152578 The last one in this set was sobering...... climate change could be killing up to 100,000 Americans every year

trying to figure out what got my allergies acting up today, started all of a sudden around 3 PM and hasn't stopped since

why? no one wants to turn on the heat right now lol, let it turn cold when it's time to snow

I mean JFK and EWR have always been cooler on radiationally exceptional nights, it's usually 2 degrees cooler for JFK which is something I've noticed, but sometimes it can be much more than that, up to 10 degrees colder on exceptional nights when there is no wind and the skies are clear all night.

The weather now doesn't relate to winter snow, our snow season realistically coincides with astronomical winter, we don't usually get our first accumulating snowfall until the later part of December anyway

Even as Ms. Pelosi vowed in San Francisco to protect those climate provisions, at least four people in Washington close to the negotiations called the clean electricity program “dead.” Senator Tina Smith, Democrat of Minnesota and the chief author of the program, said that while dropping it might win Mr. Manchin’s vote on the budget bill, it could cost hers — and those of other Democrats focused on the environment. “We must have strong climate action in the Build Back Better budget,” she said. “I’m open to all approaches, but as I’ve said, I will not support a budget deal that does not get us where we need to go on climate action. There are 50 Democratic senators and it’s going to take every one of our votes to get this budget passed.” Mr. Manchin, who has personal financial ties to the coal industry, had initially intended to write the details of the program as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Mr. Manchin was considering a clean electricity program that would reward utilities for switching from coal to natural gas, which is less polluting but still emits carbon dioxide and can leak methane, another greenhouse gas. Mr. Manchin’s home state, West Virginia, is one of the nation’s top producers of coal and gas. But in recent days Mr. Manchin indicated to the administration that he was now completely opposed to a clean energy program, people familiar with the discussions said. As a result, White House staffers are scrambling to calculate the impact on emissions from other climate measures in the bill, including tax incentives for renewable energy producers and tax credits for consumers who purchase electric vehicles. Unlike a clean energy program, tax incentives tend to expire after a set period of time, and do not have the market-shifting power of a more durable strategy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html “This is absolutely the most important climate policy in the package,” said Leah Stokes, an expert on climate policy, who has been advising Senate Democrats on how to craft the program. “We fundamentally need it to meet our climate goals. That’s just the reality. And now we can’t. So this is pretty sad.” The setback also means that President Biden will have a weakened hand when he travels to Glasgow in two weeks for a major United Nations climate change summit. He had hoped to point to the clean electricity program as evidence that the United States, the world’s largest emitter of planet-warming pollution, was serious about changing course and leading a global effort to fight climate change. Mr. Biden has vowed that the United States will cut its emissions 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. The rest of the world remains deeply wary of the United States’ commitment to tackling global warming after four years in which former President Donald J. Trump openly mocked the science of climate change and enacted policies that encouraged more drilling and burning of fossil fuels. “This will create a huge problem for the White House in Glasgow,” said David G. Victor, co-director of the Deep Decarbonization Initiative at the University of California, San Diego. “If you see the president coming in and saying all the right things with all the right aspirations, and then one of the earliest tests of whether he can deliver falls apart, it creates the question of whether you can believe him.”

I have a FAR better idea- let's cut West Virginia out of the United States. It is a useless place and we wont miss it. Then let them do whatever they want on their own.

a/c has been helping me with allergies the last couple of days/nights

how do you avoid the mosquitoes and the ragweed? I am spraying for both I want to KILL EVERYTHING

uhm Kennedy and Newark radiate MUCH better than either NYC or LGA, I have seen JFK sometimes be 10 degrees colder for lows than LGA and 5-6 degreed colder than NYC, and I've been 5-6 degrees colder than JFK and I'm 4 miles to its SE.

Yes perfect for A/C, best thing about A/C is that it reduces my allergies

You didnt mention JFK's high, it actually seemed hotter today than yesterday