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7 hours ago, nycwinter said:

a lot of people,up here do not like 90 degrees warm humid days..

and a lot of people love high heat.  a 70 degree day is just as boring as a baseball pitch thrown at 70 mph

give me 100+ and low humidity thats perfect

1 hour ago, RedSky said:

Greta Thunberg wants to know why

 

Lots of greenery, and trees and shrubs are highly effective carbon sinks

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

two houses?...that's a big carbon footprint...

Not really, heat is electric and one is kept at 50 when I am at the other one.

Wow both my houses got over 2.5" and almost 3"

Got wind gust reports too, Walt?

6 hours ago, gravitylover said:

Somewhere around 85 is about it for me. After that it's interesting and by the mid 90s I don't want to be out in it so what good is it. 

It's more like March or November out there than the end of May.

the wind is really howling tonight

6 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

A friend of mine is moving to Vegas and all I hear is that it’s a dry heat…well stick your head in a oven, that’s dry heat too. Yes, I hate dews more than the next guy but it’s not like I’ll be jumping for joy if it’s 90 but the dew is below 60. 

We had that in 2010 and it felt really good.  Trust me 100 and a 50 DP feels amazing, really good for your health and amazing weather to go running in!  Once it gets over 110 it's not so good.....

4 hours ago, jm1220 said:

We should all be close to 2" by morning. JFK had 0.3" last hour and the worst of the rain isn't here yet. Most are 0.5-0.8" now. 

and the winds will be at gale force, they already are over here, I can hear them

2 hours ago, weathermedic said:

Tide up over Brookville Blvd behind JFK as usual with these persistent easterly fetch situations. PD shut down that stretch of Brookville Blvd. At least one car stuck in the water.

PD2? I wonder what happened over there in Jan 2016 and some of our other really windy snowstorms.

1 hour ago, Rjay said:

Pouring and 48 degrees

why does this feel like winter all over again? lol

I actually hear the wind whistling through the leaves

7 hours ago, Will - Rutgers said:

those bloodsucking sand gnats or whatever they are also spread disease.  hate those bastards

we've had sleeping sickness here in these swamps....excuse me protected wetlands....

30 minutes ago, JerseyWx said:

Not sure about you, but the gnats are a problem too.  I've been bit up pretty bad so far, but they're all from those tiny things.  All of a sudden there's a pinch and some blood, forget about the itching.  Even some anti-itch cream barely helps.

all these bugs spread disease too, we've had malaria, etc., on Long Island

7 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

I think gnats really thrive on moisture as well.

I just know from the beach house when it is still and humid...That’s when they are out in force.

We just live in a different climate in terms of humidity then we did 30 years ago

We need to find some sort of artificial means to suck this excess humidity right out of the air.  It's scientifically viable we just need to have the motivation to invent a large scale device that does this.  If we can geoengineer Mars we should be able to geoengineer our own planet too.

Waiting for nature to do its thing is just no longer an option.

16 minutes ago, JerseyWx said:

I'd be fine with that, so long as it's more of a dry heat.

We really only have 3 core months of heat- June, July, August.  Spring is just cool and grey as of recent, with some bursts of warmth here and there.  

Dry heat is my favorite, less bugs and much easier to breathe.

5 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

Heat kicked on.

Happy Memorial Day!

lol well the a/c got enough use last weekend

should've made that your memorial day weekend.

14 minutes ago, etudiant said:

The UV traps moistly catch harmless insects and mosquito predators, so they make your yard safer for mosquitoes.

There are lots of traps that use CO2 as a lure for mosquitoes, these are somewhat useful, but don't expect miracles.

Any BBQ emits way more CO2 than these traps, but I've never seen any mosquitoes self immolating on them.

Yeah I think it's CO2, I just read the manual, I just wasn't sure why CO2 attracts them and how do they detect it?

5 hours ago, JerseyWx said:

I really hope after this weekend, as we enter June, that the summer weather arrives and stays for good.  I don't mind rain, but several days of gray in the 50's/60's is terrible.

After June 6th it's supposed to be well over 90 and even approaching 100.

Just now, jm1220 said:

No nothing like that lol. We won’t be getting a foot of rain like that week. 

Oh you remember that too- I think we got 2 feet of rain that month lol.

Do you still think we'll heat up a lot after next week? I remember one of the models (GFS) showed temps approaching 100 after June 6th?

6 hours ago, nycwinter said:

it feels like a late october day this morning nice temps gusty breeze refreshing ..

Dont worry, after June 6th we'll be well into the 90s and maybe even approaching 100.

Just now, forkyfork said:

https://blog.nwf.org/2020/09/what-you-need-to-know-before-spraying-for-mosquitoes/

I'm actually using this machine I bought online, it has a UV light and some sort of gas that attracts them and they get trapped inside the container and they die.  It seems to be working because when I clean it out every month there are lots of mosquitoes, gnats and flies in there.

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

no t storms recorded that day...temps were in the low 40's...

IPS-1F6953AE-6D0E-4F2A-9101-835F2E05CDB6.pdf (noaa.gov)

we had graupel memorial day weekend a few years ago, somewhere in the early 2010s

2 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Euro got wetter too, has a nice 4"+ chunk over N NJ and 3"+ everywhere else. UKMET has 6"+ over E LI. This Part 2 is getting bigger on each model run. 

Does this remind you of October 2005?  Remember when we had that training tropical feed all month?

9 hours ago, bluewave said:

It’s too difficult to sustain dry conditions for an extended period in our new wetter climate. We just got upgraded to D0 dry conditions yesterday. So it didn’t take long for the heavy rains to come after that update. Hard to believe the last time NYC had water restrictions was back in 2001-2002. 

 

Sooner or later we'll get into an extended dry period like we did in the 60s.  Our climate is all about extremes and I would expect that to happen.

1 hour ago, Dan76 said:

Oh their here on the S shore

Hopefully they start spraying soon.  Mosquitoes are a plague that need to be eradicated from the planet.

9 hours ago, uncle W said:

late may 1961 and 1967 had a day with highs in the mid 40's with rain...LGA recorded ice pellets on 5/27/61...thats hard to believe...

we had graupel a few years ago Memorial Day weekend

3 hours ago, CIK62 said:

GFS up to no good again:

lol @ June 9, no chance of 100 happening this early