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and the triplet of Mars Jupiter and Saturn later on at night! If you've got a very long zoom lens you can capture the structure of the ISS!

I certainly hope so.....do you think they are the source for this weird long loud hissing sound I hear during the day (and also sometimes at night?) I thought it was coming from outside, but sometimes it seems very nearby. I cant stand waterbugs, I thought they were limited to tropical climates. One time I was vacationing in Mexico and I woke up to something biting me on the neck and it was a flying waterbug (or cockroach as you said). It was HUGE. The thing I saw last night-- I thought it was a beetle because I was trying to smash it with my hand (with gloves on of course) but it kept getting away, and I've only known beetles in the insect world to have a shell hard enough to withstand the full weight of a human. Are you saying it can come up from a different drain?

Chris is this also why we haven't seen a 100 degree day here in so long- last summer was the closest we've gotten since 2013.

you can actually see the solar panels on the ISS on pictures taken with long zoom cameras!

right under the Big Dipper! excellent! Lee Goldberg just said July 14-19 just under the big dipper....I wonder why he didn't mention that it would be closest on July 23rd so should probably be easier to see by then.

so are vultures unfortunately. I've seen half a dozen of them in my trees, just sitting there, ominously, when I'm pruning my plants. Made a lot of noise to make them leave but they just keep coming back. This is the first year I've seen this happen.

Don what's the highest temp the CONUS has seen thus far this year? I heard Death Valley hit 128 two days ago, was that it? Globally too?

Based on what's been going on it probably wont be as bad as last winter, but still probably below normal snowfall wise (one big snowfall in an otherwise mild winter can always "rescue" us though....a la 2005-06.)

the south shore is 3 degrees hotter than "NYC" lmao

these so-called cold fronts should really be called dew fronts....

or 95.....

Yeah well DC is going to crash through their record of most consecutive 90+ days! My question for you is how long before NYC and Long Island see a big increase in their number of 90 and 100 degree days?

It's very difficult to get that hot in July even in our hottest summers....I would think +3 or +3.5 is the highest it can go.

100 degree heat possibilities seem to be much reduced with this upcoming heat

the higher humidity is making 100 degree heat more difficult

weird....90 at JFK and 87 at NYC

It was in the news last night that Nassau County is being plagued by a rat infestation....I guess I wasn't the only one lol. Luckily my problems are (knock on wood) solved because I listened to people who told me to find all the holes that were larger than 1/4 inch and plug them all up. My biting/stinging bug problem seems to have resolved itself too- haven't seen anything since I got back to Long Island, except when I was in the bathroom last night and I saw this giant (2 inch long) waterbug....or metallic black beetle.....whatever it was had a really strong shell and both crawls and flies, I wasn't able to catch it but it went down the drain (on its own) in my bathroom sink and I plugged up the drain after that to make sure it doesn't come back out. How long can those things live inside the pipes (or will it come up again from there or some other drain?)

honey bee population is down 44% from last year to this year, from a big queen bee die off during the summer. honey bees are responsible for over one third of pollination.

Weirdest thing, I saw fireflies flashing throughout the night even as it was raining during Fay.

Julian, how many degrees above the horizon would you say it was? NW sky right? moon= half degree. 10 degrees = holding your fist at arm's length. also mind sharing exposure settings- effective focal length, shutter speed, iso, aperture, etc?

I really want to see it. I hope it gets higher up in the sky before it fades. One of my favorite memories with my father is seeing Hale Bopp back in 1997. He's gone now but seeing this comet is something that'd make me feel closer to him. I'm hoping to see it either this week or next, I've been looking for it every night....the deadline is July 22nd, after that it's going to get dimmer as it recedes from Earth. I'm wondering if I should scan the skies with my binos first and if I can find it that way, then look for it with my eyes.

the scarcity of 90 degree days but lots of high humidity, as well as the early tropical hit along the east coast. We've been talking about 1996 as a possible analog since May.

Pangaea....that was millions upon millions of years ago though.

tell me about it, we have dozens of them here. They aren't so good for the bird population either.

the new kind of cross polar flow ;-) considering that Maine and Montreal almost made it to triple digits, how hot would it have been had that air made it down here, Chris?