LibertyBell

It's not enough, we also have a higher threshold for rain now, as the temperature rises, the saturation point rises too, thus the atmosphere can hold much more moisture before rain falls. I'm talking about removing water vapor before it reaches that threshold so we can have a less humid climate and convert all that excess water vapor into drinking water.

Yep and wars, which will proliferate. societal breakdown, mass migrations and wars, all of which we're starting to see now.

Yes but that's mainly for the UK and Nordic nations.

Why is Europe heating up so much more quickly? Is it the same reason the NW has been? Having an ocean to your west makes warming more extreme? That seems counterintuitive to me.

This is exactly why removing water vapor from the atmosphere (and thus removing a powerful greenhouse gas) and converting it to drinking water will be much more popular.

2010-2013 really was our most widespread hottest period, of course the NW has been heating up much faster than we have, especially in the summer.

Thorium reactors have a bright future too.

100% agree, some of those African and Asian countries are run by third world thugs and don't give a shit about the environment and are trying to drive local species extinct with their inherent greed. They should not be allowed to repeat the same mistakes that more advanced nations have made.

Yes and much better weather, sunnier, less humid, etc. We were lucky to get four summers in a row like that from 2010-2013 By the way, you left out 1980, 1991 and 2002, those were some dry and hot summers too!!! Could also add in 1944, 1948, 1949 and 1953 although that's before my time lol.

Interesting how JFK is running 0.7 degrees hotter than NYC. By the way today and tomorrow are Manhattanhenge days!!

I'm just glad the sun is finally here.

possibly also nuclear testing, there was a big cluster of heat between 1944 and 1955 that could be linked to testing of nuclear weapons (both fission and fusion.)

Nature is the final arbiter of all of the mistakes of humanity. Those mistakes are finally erased when the people who made those mistakes are all dead....

Wait, Don, who cut down the trees at Easter Island? I thought only natives live there-- it's one of the most isolated places on the entire planet. If we are on that trajectory, we might not have Venus level greenhouse warming, but we'll likely get at least partway there. Is having the current generation of rich people die off going to be enough to end fossil fuels? I don't see anyone who is under 40 who would want to support or even run a fossil fuel company, so maybe we will be finally done with them when everyone who is currently over the age of 40 is dead?

ear Rank Days >= 100 °F 1911 1 4 a very hot summer, I wonder if NYC was similarly hot and had 100+ days in 1911 too?

Year Rank Days >= 95 °F 1949 1 14 1944 2 12 2018 3 9 1983 3 9 1955 3 9 2021 6 8 1953 6 8 1911 6 8 2022 9 7 2002 9 7 These years do match up with NYC well, what was going on in `1911 (the year before 1912 that we were discussing) that caused 4 100+ days in Boston in 1911? Didn't NYC also have a very hot summer with 100+ days in 1911 too?

very similar to JFK and NYC, 2010, 2002, 1991 and 1983 place prominently in the top 5! 1983 1 30 1955 2 28 2002 3 27 1991 3 27 2010 5 25

Our society is just too dependent on fossil fuels. Even with lessening of emissions as fuel, there is still the matter of plastic being created from toxic petrochemicals. The fossil fuel cartel does not want to be retired from existence, there's just too much money in it. We will probably eventually be completely done with it, but I don't foresee that happening for the next 50 years.

wild, nothing like what NYC had in 1953

Weird, Boston had 10 90 degree days in July 1912, it must have been over the top heat.

7-9-1912 when Boston hit 99, NYC might have hit 100 on that day. 7-9 is a popular day for extreme heat, I think that was the last day of a 3 day 100+ stretch at NYC in 1993, when we hit 102 degrees.

I wonder if NYC had a similar hot stretch to Boston in 1912.

whats causing all the stalled fronts and cloudy weather in July which we did not have in the 90s especially?

This would then also mean much more snow changing to rain or outright rain storms in the winter because of onshore flow.

I tried the multiquote thing after a browser update and it works a little better but still scrolls me down to the end of the page and I have to go back up to find the posts I wanted to quote lol. Excellent work Tony, it's interesting how JFK's hottest August temperatures happened at the start of their POR and the only time they had two 100+ in a row in August, in 1983 they also had 2 100+ temperatures, but one was in July and the other one in August. In September 1983 came the closest, which was our hottest September on record (like how 1991 one was for May.)