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  1. LibertyBell
    all hail 1983 it's #1 on so many lists lol
  2. LibertyBell
    I have a specific definition for hot summer and I wont stray from it because those are the summers I remember, not these hot min fake heat summers. I find those to be mediocre. For EWR/LGA 45+ 90 degree days and at least 1 100+ high For NYC 30+ 90 degree highs and at least 1 100+ high For JFK 20+ 90 degree highs and at least 1 100+ high How many summers meet my criteria?
  3. LibertyBell
    It doesn't mean that other summers can't be hot, of course they can, but the majority of the country has seen some of its hottest summers in this 11 year cycle, What convinced me is a map of temperature anomalies for the entire CONUS for 11 year cycle summers starting from 1933; it's wall to wall red.
  4. LibertyBell
    The phrase derives from the full sentence, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."; it was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain and others, who mistakenly attributed it to the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. ...
  5. LibertyBell
    Definitely shows how all "data" isn't created equal. Didn't the great Mark Twain have a quote about statistics that has stood the test of time? Also, while you're here Chris, how much ocean water usage (desalination) would we need to neutralize sea level rise and solve all our drought and wild fire problems? Tell you what, with sea level rise happening, these ugly high dew points and droughts and wild fires in the West, I would seriously consider more efficient desalinization machines being built so we can use the water from the oceans. It would be a muscular move to solve multiple problems at once- if we were able to use enough ocean water at a high enough rate we could solve our drought problems and negate sea level rise at the same time. The question is how long it will be when we have machines powerful enough to desalinate water from the oceans and use it and take it out fast enough to negate sea level rise.
  6. LibertyBell
    Wow JFK hasn't had a 60" rainfall year or a 70" snowfall season (69 inches in 1995-96, damn that April storm which underperformed we missed by an inch! I'm sure they undermeasured that season though, they all did.) I thought we got 10" in that August 2011 weekend rainy day too.....do you happen to have the totals for JFK from that event? I'm pretty sure we all had 10" on the south shore of Nassau County. edit- I see it now, 7.72. I guess southern Queens got less than we did. That was more than they got in Irene though right? And about the same JFK got in the rains we had the past 3 days? I wonder if 7.72 was close to their 24 hour or total storm records though.
  7. LibertyBell
    Made to 90 here right at 5 PM!
  8. LibertyBell
    Tell you what, with sea level rise happening, these ugly high dew points and droughts and wild fires in the West, I would seriously consider more efficient desalinization machines being built so we can use the water from the oceans. It would be a muscular move to solve multiple problems at once- if we were able to use enough ocean water at a high enough rate we could solve our drought problems and negate sea level rise at the same time. The question is how long it will be when we have machines powerful enough to desalinate water from the oceans and use it and take it out fast enough to negate sea level rise.
  9. LibertyBell
    so sea breezes on the following days? Got to 90 here at 5 PM! Latest high I've had in awhile. Did JFK hit 90?
  10. LibertyBell
    this is the list of what I would call the truly hot summers 2010, 1993, 2002, 1991, 1983 missing a few (1944, 1955, 1966, 1980, 1995, 1999)
  11. LibertyBell
    the good old days! lots of snow in the winter and lots of heat in the summer! didn't we have the same at LGA though in 2010?
  12. LibertyBell
    what the heck happened in 1913 lol
  13. LibertyBell
    I love this kind of heat, I want westerly winds forever
  14. LibertyBell
    Think that is bad, used underwear from the 60s is showing up in Lake Tahoe because the water there is going bye bye too.
  15. LibertyBell
    I remember October 2005 being an amazing wet month (even moreso here on Long Island) but NYC unfortunately didn't match the record from September 1882 because the last week or 10 days wasn't wet, came close but that last 10 days did us in. Long Island though had 2 feet of rain that month. But as far as yearly totals are concerned, I dont think 2005 was as rainy as 1983 was, it was all mostly in that one month. 2011 I would say was the second rainiest after 1983. That August was amazing though. As far as monthly rainfall totals at NYC are concerned, does the September 1882 record still stand or did August 2011 supplant it? I see that's a thirty day rainfall record that includes parts of both months, so I'm not sure if NYC has had a 20" rainfall month yet (or 20" over 30 days for that matter, since those numbers are from EWR.) Wow Edna must have been something- that was a Cape Scraper wasn't it? So basically the 9" that occurred in Brooklyn with this past storm was out in Central Suffolk County with Edna. Does JFK have these three years (and months) as their wettest too- in 1983, 2005 and 2011?
  16. LibertyBell
    I dont believe this malfunction nonsense, I was alive then (and so were you I think) and I distinctly remember that as being wetter than any other year I've ever experienced and that includes the post 2010 years.
  17. LibertyBell
    I remember 1983 well I can confirm it was the rainiest year I have ever witnessed (which makes it all the more amazing that it was our hottest summer for a long time). Wasn't it JFK's rainiest year?
  18. LibertyBell
    Only because it came in at low tide right? It hit Cape May as a Cat 4 and was a Cat 3 right up to NYC that's amazing Low tide was the only reason why it wasn't a bigger deal than Sandy.
  19. LibertyBell
    Ginny was a big snowicane in Maine!
  20. LibertyBell
    Cat 2 can happen once a decade, but Cat 3 are ultra rare up here. It could happen with the aforementioned Irene track as long as the storm is really strong in NC and moves really quickly. 130 mph Hatteras Cane moving 40 mph on an Irene track could do it.
  21. LibertyBell
    Imagine if Irene had been stronger down south it would've been stronger up here. I think the strongest we can reasonably expect for a Hatteras Cane to be is 130 mph.....I wonder if Irene was that strong there how strong it would have been up here on that track and make it move quicker, like 40-50 mph
  22. LibertyBell
    was Ginny the one that made it snow in Maine?
  23. LibertyBell
    Hartford is going to see the center of the storm twice lol
  24. LibertyBell
    I would like to hear some eyewitness reports, although the ones I have seen show the surge was really high and the pressure near the center was really low even when it was going over Manhattan. Do you have any windspeed reports, did any part of our area have 100+ gusts?
  25. LibertyBell
    Yes I loved that a lot more than the October 2011 snowstorm lol, this was a real snowstorm and all snow lol
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