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  1. LibertyBell
    Could we have a cooler July avg than June too?
  2. LibertyBell
    I hate humidity too, we need to do something about it.
  3. LibertyBell
    Don what about December 2015 for us, how far above normal was that? And conversely, the cold of February 2015?
  4. LibertyBell
    perfect weather is temps in the 100s with dew points in the 50s I want to crash Ceres into the Gulf of Mexico and annihilate it and end high dew points forever. I actually have a sim that can do that it gives me something to focus my anger on when it feels like a polluted swamp outside lol. Gulf of Mexico is a useless polluted cesspool that needs to be eradicated.
  5. LibertyBell
    I see it more likely in the fall and winter rather than spring and summer because of our subtropical rain forest type of rainfall pattern now lol. Could you imagine December 2015 type extremes happening in July? One can only dream..... Of course the temperatures can't ever be that far above normal in the summer, but I was thinking more along the lines of standard deviation.
  6. LibertyBell
    yeah and may I also add that hot and dry is a lot healthier than hot and humid. When it's hot and dry I have much less breathing issues and no allergies while it's painful for me when it's hot and humid and the bugs multiply like crazy. Actually it doesn't even have to be hot, just very humid with temps in the 70s is unhealthy, with poor air quality and all its issues. Water vapor is a pollutant.
  7. LibertyBell
    That's why I'm wondering if the kind of extremely high temps like we saw in 2010 and 2011 is going to happen less often now in the summer because climate change has made the WAR much stronger and its influence has extended further north. So maybe we're destined to have a Florida type climate with subtropical summers while the West is where the record high temps will be with all that drought? So I could see our new modified climate consisting of record high temps in the fall and winter and then much rainier and much more humid springs and summers with lots of extremely high dew points and high mins and higher than normal highs, but not the kind of extremes that give us record highs (except for when the record highs are in the low or mid 90s).
  8. LibertyBell
    But we are not getting the kind of extremes places like Seattle are getting. I'm rather disappointed in the summer here, we haven't had an extreme summer like 2010 since then. Maybe that will end up being the 1995-96 of summers?
  9. LibertyBell
    Don what do you think of this? Maybe measuring our averages by heat index rather than temperature would give a truer picture of our weather, since it seems like our summer highs won't be going up as much because of higher humidity? TWC did a piece on climate change and in it they said we should be keeping track of heat indices as a measure of heat rather than temperature because humidity is a component of higher heat. They said our thirty year averages should consist of heat index rather than just temperature and that the temperatures out west were likely to rise much more due to climate change than temperatures in the east would because higher humidity and rainfall will cap out our temperatures and make them less extreme than what the west will get. But they said if we measured our averages by heat index that will give a truer indication of the new climate rather than measuring them by temperature alone. Going by that, JFK's record heat was 117 which we got on back to back days just a couple of years ago (actual temp was 99 but it felt like the hottest I've ever experienced here thanks to the humidity.) What do you think of measuring heat by heat index rather than temperature? So a hot day would be a day with a heat index of 90 and we would also keep track of 100+ days as very hot days.
  10. LibertyBell
    Haven't we seen a lot of rain this summer? It feels like a tropical rain forest around here. I really hate the humidity lol. TWC did a piece on climate change and in it they said we should be keeping track of heat indices as a measure of heat rather than temperature because humidity is a component of higher heat. They said our thirty year averages should consist of heat index rather than just temperature and that the temperatures out west were likely to rise much more due to climate change than temperatures in the east would because higher humidity and rainfall will cap out our temperatures and make them less extreme than what the west will get. But they said if we measured our averages by heat index that will give a truer indication of the new climate rather than measuring them by temperature alone. Going by that, JFK's record heat was 117 which we got on back to back days just a couple of years ago (actual temp was 99 but it felt like the hottest I've ever experienced here thanks to the humidity.) What do you think of measuring heat by heat index rather than temperature? So a hot day would be a day with a heat index of 90 and we would also keep track of 100+ days as very hot days.
  11. LibertyBell
    yep it was shortlived, it's been over here for awhile.
  12. LibertyBell
    nope lots of heavy rain here now and lightning and thunder
  13. LibertyBell
    raining really hard now in SW Nassau with lots of lightning and thunder the main show is finally here
  14. LibertyBell
    October 2005 is still unmatched- 2 feet of rain across Long Island
  15. LibertyBell
    even though JFK barely missed by one degree, we hit 92 here on the south shore. Haven't had any bonafide July heat though just a ton of humidity and lots of spraying to kill insects coming inside! For whatever reason humidity brings them inside, hot and dry doesn't
  16. LibertyBell
    I only wish we had 1966 type heat back east, all this humidity sucks, and I'm constantly having to spray to get rid of all the insects trying to get inside. Seems like hot dry weather has much less insects trying to come inside.
  17. LibertyBell
    sounds like you guys are on the way to experiencing what Siberia did last year.
  18. LibertyBell
    Did any of you guys see this..... Wobbling’ moon will cause devastating worldwide flooding, Nasa warns 18.6 yr lunar gravitational cycle increases extremes of flooding. In the piece they were talking about the wobble of the moon combined with climate change making for long lasting extremes of coastal flooding from the 2030s thru the 2050s!
  19. LibertyBell
    How many sensors do they have in the Death Valley area lol? I follow the default sensor at Furnace Creek on Weather Bug. Is Stove Pipe Wells also on there? Also the low of 107.7 was second only to a town in Oman? What's the record highest low there? Thanks! PS I heard Death Valley's high yesterday was 128.
  20. LibertyBell
    Let's see what Sunday brings.....
  21. LibertyBell
    a truly historic moment! Maybe that will be beaten today or tomorrow?
  22. LibertyBell
    omg finally a true 130 reading! This is a historic moment! I heard today the old record of 134 could be challenged and the peak of the heat will be Monday?
  23. LibertyBell
    I wonder if these winds will be stronger than what we get in Elsa? It almost seemed like last year's TS for awhile this evening
  24. LibertyBell
    Not when we get 30 inch snowstorms I compare our weather to DC and ACY and I feel a lot better about it it's all relative!
  25. LibertyBell
    wow thats strange, I wonder what kept EWR cooler back then? Did the same thing happen in the epic late August- early September super heat wave?
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