LibertyBell

Heat is exciting, humidity is boring.

I see you mentioned big heat coming after the 15th, I hope it happens between the 15-23 which is statistically our heat peak of the entire year. Do you think it could rival what we had in late June, Tony?

Namibia also has some of the lowest light pollution of anywhere on the planet. The other place is the Australian outback.

It's normal for us to miss out on these kinds of storms. We need a strong front to come through to trigger areawide storms.

80/78 is a hell of a lot worse than 102/80 and I've experienced BOTH. The reason 80/78 is worse is because it's usually cloudy and oppressive. 102/80 gives you sunshine which makes it feel drier and less oppressive. The sun is a very powerful friend.

But climatologically and also forecast wise on short term models, you see these popping up inland and weakening and dying out as they move to the coast. It's what happened yesterday too.

We should all hit 90+ today, except Central Park of course.

Central Park, NYC, it's the hub of the entire area.

Highs: EWR: 105 (1993) NYC: 100 (1993) 1993: New record high temperature was recorded at DCA of 100° and a minimum of 78°. The old record was 98° set in 1890. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1993: Iowa: A wild weather night in the middle of the Great Flood of 1993 across Iowa as the State records its 37th day of rain in the last 40 days. Many tornado sightings reported. Manilla, Iowa records 7.5 inches of rain; 7.83 inches in Jefferson. Massive flooding rocked portions of eastern South Dakota. Residents were cleaning up from tremendous flooding which occurred from July 3rd to July 7th. Flash flooding resulted from thunderstorms which moved across southeast South Dakota dumping 3 to 6 inch rains on already saturated ground. (Ref. WxDoctor) (Ref. More Information on This Storm) These are the two things I remember the most about 1993. St Louis was flooded out that year while we were baking in intense relentless heat all summer long. 2003: What may be the world's highest dew point temperature was recorded at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in the Persian Gulf. A dew point of 95 degrees was recorded at 3 PM while the air temperature was 108 degrees. The apparent temperature at that time would have been 172 degrees. and we thought our dew points were bad lol

Most of the rain will be inland.

Tony, I know the forecast is for *scattered showers* but in reality it should be scattered showers for inland locations and partly to mostly sunny near the coast. Because that's what always seems to happen in these patterns and that's what we had yesterday and so far today. There's a clear difference between inland areas and coastal areas in terms of rain and sunshine.

This might also be why there are no 100+ record high temperatures between July 24-30.

Yes, this much more so than the heat.

Yes the heat is fine, it's the humidity that really sucks. Convert all that useless water vapor to drinkable water and you have multiple benefits of reducing life destroying floods and giving drinking water to millions.

This is a big heat signal, I notice that when TS moisture misses us to our east, we almost always get big heat (even as late as October.)

all this humidity could be converted to drinking water

After today our next chance of rain will be Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow will feel far worse than when it hit 100+ on back to back days in June.

The sun has come out here and the skies have cleared out and that has made the day intolerable. I love heat but hate humidity and this is one of those days you actually want to be cloudy. I imagine tomorrow will be much worse, I see even the south shore of Long Island will probably hit the low 90s tomorrow from my local forecast.

That 26 foot rise on that river in one hour was pretty crazy, I'm not sure if there was much that could have been done. They did have flash flood warnings out from what I read, but the expectation was for 4-6 inches of rain not the 20+ inches that actually happened. That's where I think climate change comes in, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture and thus makes events like these more likely.

Yep it's a big waste of money. I think China tried it too. Anyone who has tried it realizes it costs more money than any benefits it produces.

You can hold government accountable for aiding and abetting climate change though. Even if it's done in this way, showing rage at greedy institutions isn't a bad thing. The government of Texas is utter crap and their hypocritical *empathy* when all they care about is making money should make them think twice before backing the fossil fuel cartels. It's similar to their position on gun control when school shootings happen. It's more about climate change than it is politics (although maybe some of these people don't believe in climate change, which is ironic lol.)

1993: The day after lightning started several fires, strong non-thunderstorm winds blew across much of northern Oklahoma. Winds gusted to 70 mph and lasted for several hours. A 1,200 pound bale of hay was rolled a quarter mile by the winds that also blew down many trees. Highway 51, near Hennessey, was closed until the downed trees could be cleaned up.When clusters of thunderstorms collapse and dissipate rapidly, they sometimes produce a downburst of very warm air, called a "heat burst ". A collapsing thunderstorm in the northeast part of the Texas Panhandle produced a heat burst that reached Arnett and Gage, OK just before midnight. Winds gusted to 67 mph at Arnett, as the temperature rose from 82° to 97° in 30 minutes. At Gage, the wind gusted to 70 mph, while the temperature rose from 85° to 102° in one hour. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) These are the amazing heat bursts we have been talking about.....

2010: BWI recorded record high temperatures on 4 days: 6th (105 °F), 7th (101 °F), 24th (101 °F) and 25th (100 °F).DCA soared to a record 102 °F on the 7th and 101 °F on the 24th. Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 all the historically hot summers were setting records right now.... Records: Highs: EWR: 103 (1993) NYC: 100 (2010) LGA: 101 (2010) JFK: 100 (2010) see no foliage interference when it's historically hot.....

Time to start spraying! Why don't the birds eat all of them?

I think everyone will be cloudy and overcast though (like it is right now). So even if it's not raining it's going to look gloomy and depressing.