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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.

Was it hotter but drier in Greece? I wonder if a 100 degree day with a dew point of 58 and humidity of 25% is something which this area can ever even experience again?

lmao I told you it looked like an air pollution map from June 2023.... or a map of Mars

If the climate models were correct, we would all be getting three 100 degree days every summer. Sure some areas are getting hotter but it's not as widespread as we thought it would be and the warming is affecting our winters much more than our summers. These models need to be tweaked to account for what we're actually seeing. Which is higher mins and a blunting of extreme highs in the summer.

Maybe the heat from the continents is heating the western basins more quickly? The same thing seems to be happening in the Western Atlantic.

Just go by actual temperature history, no summer in recent memory can hold a candle to 1993, 1999, 2002 or 2010.

I wonder if this is a yearly pattern now, with heat going to the western part of the continent. We just do not get super hot summers here like 1993 and 2010 were. Posting that temperature record from July 9, 1993 from JFK is quite the revelation.

Let's see if we can get it to match what I just posted from July 1993.

100 degrees with a 58 dew point and a 25% humidity and a NW to W wind is my perfect summer day !!

May I introduce you to July 9, 1993? One of my epic greatest summer days in the history of New York City! Here is the JFK record from that historic day. It was still 90 degrees there at 11 pm after getting over 90 degrees by 10 AM haha. And you thought JFK was cool ;-) https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ny/new-york-city/KJFK/date/1993-7-9 6:00 AM 77 °F 72 °F 84 % W 5 mph 0 mph 29.92 in 0.0 in Fair 7:00 AM 80 °F 74 °F 81 % W 5 mph 0 mph 29.93 in 0.0 in Cloudy 8:00 AM 86 °F 72 °F 63 % NW 12 mph 0 mph 29.94 in 0.0 in Fair 9:00 AM 89 °F 70 °F 53 % N 13 mph 0 mph 29.95 in 0.0 in Fair 10:00 AM 91 °F 66 °F 43 % N 7 mph 0 mph 29.96 in 0.0 in Fair 11:00 AM 96 °F 65 °F 36 % NW 10 mph 0 mph 29.95 in 0.0 in Partly Cloudy 12:00 PM 98 °F 62 °F 30 % NW 9 mph 0 mph 29.95 in 0.0 in Partly Cloudy 1:00 PM 99 °F 59 °F 26 % NNW 10 mph 0 mph 29.94 in 0.0 in Partly Cloudy 2:00 PM 97 °F 60 °F 29 % NNW 12 mph 0 mph 29.93 in 0.0 in Fair 3:00 PM 100 °F 58 °F 25 % NW 12 mph 0 mph 29.92 in 0.0 in Fair 4:00 PM 99 °F 59 °F 26 % WNW 14 mph 0 mph 29.90 in 0.0 in Fair 5:00 PM 100 °F 58 °F 25 % W 12 mph 0 mph 29.89 in 0.0 in Fair

what is causing the western flow up there but not down here?

NYC doing okay compared to LGA so far

Yes I remember you referenced the early 1970s a couple of winters ago as the type of pattern to look for and not coincidentally we had a streak of bad winters then too.

anyone getting close to 130 degrees out there lol?

why is the western pacific running the show and why isn't the eastern pacific warming as quickly?

Yesterday was hotter for me, I had the A/C on at 6 pm. Today, no A/C needed.

that offshore storm is going to delay the frontal passage. Saturday morning should be okay.

wow that 1821 gale hit both Norfolk and Long Island (hence the name). I wonder where this made landfall on Long Island?