LibertyBell

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).

Montauk 83, wow thats hot for them. Looks like Central Park peaked at 86 AQI is 147 which is pretty high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopperl,_Texas Shortly after midnight on June 15, 1960, a very rare meteorological phenomenon, a heat burst, struck the community when a dying thunderstorm collapsed over Kopperl. The storm had rained itself out, and with little to no precipitation to cool the resulting downdrafts, superheated air descended upon the community in the form of extremely hot wind gusts up to 75 mph (121 km/h). The temperature increased rapidly, reportedly peaking near 140 °F (60 °C),[3] 20° above the official all-time high for the state of Texas and exceeding the highest official temperature recorded on Earth. The storm, known as "Satan's Storm" by locals, soon became part of local folklore.[4][5][6]

I'm trying to think of the other places that are extremely hot. Kuwait of course, and Turbat and Sibi and Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan have all been 128 or higher. 130 seems to be a barrier that no one has ever been able to exceed outside of very short heat bursts (like the one in Kopperl Texas in 1960 that caused a temperature of 140 degrees with burnt crops, burnt trees and even burned doors.)

The usual hot suspect is Ahwaz in Iran.

a large wall to keep the sea breeze away would be a good thing. we don't have it here yet so it's nice and toasty.

85 here now in SW Nassau

84 here in SW Nassau

idk it doesn't seem that smoky.... just clouds and sun, right now more sunny than cloudy so the temperature shot up into the mid 80s here

I have a novel idea, why can't these sites let people pick their own color scheme and then the data will be displayed just like the user wants to see it?

mid 80s here on the south shore too

I like trying to make connections and I can't help but feel that the warming of the West Pac and the West Atl is causing high pressures in the western basins to migrate further north causing a feedback mechanism that is resulting in these stuck patterns. I think this will only change when we see a massive melting of the ice caps and an influx of cooler water into these basins, which, ironically enough might reset everything to the old pattern (at a higher level.) Nature does self regulate through feedback mechanisms even though it might do it in a way we don't want it to.

Thanks Chris, is there a specific reason these over the top patterns are happening? Is it linked to what we are seeing with the western basins in the Oceans warming up more quickly too (it's happening both in the Western Pacific and the Western Atlantic.) I noticed that Western Europe has been getting a lot of extreme heat the last few years just like Western North America has been getting. London reached 104 F (40 C) for the first time in recorded history a few years ago.

It's near 80 here even without the sun. Weird thing going on in my trees a large swarm of sea gulls are hovering over them and even sitting on them picking at something. I think they're eating the fruit-- it's a mulberry tree.