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It's the only time London has reached triple digits I think? I wonder if that's equivalent to Seattle hitting 100!

Our longest heat wave ever was like that- 1954 I think? 14 day heat wave that peaked over 100 twice, in late August and in early September- set the all time September record at 102!

Don does this correlate to another extreme heat wave for us during the summer? How does that kind of heat compare to some of our historic heat waves?

Ticks and mosquitoes spread disease so they need to be controlled. With the warmer weather we now have three dangerous tick species in our area- one of which spreads an allergy to red meat! We now also have West Nile back in our area, I've noticed this often happens in our hottest summers, going back to 1999.

Don, did London hit 100? The heat over in Europe is incredible- I heard that even the Netherlands was well above 100, as was Germany! Paris, of course, takes the cake- they almost hit 110!

Got to 100 here on the south shore, might not happen again this year

99 here on the south shore too! Going for 100 today and think we'll make it with a downslope wind! BTW MJX hit 100 yesterday I think we should start measuring total heat using the heat index, since our humidity has been on the rise, total heat content needs to factor that in. A "hot" day should be a day with a HI of 90, an extremely hot day a day with a HI of 110. Tony is there any way to find out how many days we've had with a HI that high so far?

they seem to have gotten worse over the years. I loved growing cucumbers and squash in the past, and (maybe it's our changing weather) it was a lot easier in the 90s than it is today

plus Agent Orange over there in DC got $1 million from Dow and he had an insecticide approved that kills bees. Another pollinator that'll bite the dust- they're bending over backwards for Dow, they also unbanned a Dow pesticide that causes brain damage in children, which they're currently being sued over.

Glad we hit 90, 89 degree days are really annoying, if it's going to be hot it might as well hit 90

current society would disintegrate without its technology, it's so dependent on it! at least if the power outage had happened at night we would finally be able to see stars (the real ones!) lessen that light pollution! I think the 1977 black out gave people the wrong idea that less light means more crime.... there wasn't a significant increase in crime during the August 2004 major black out nor was there such last night either.... not to mention that light pollution causes health problems including a higher risk of cancer (breast and prostate) because of melatonin repression.

what kind of "pests" are they trying to kill? If we kill off the pollinators, the pest that will eventually go extinct is humanity ;-) and the rest of the planet will celebrate our demise!

JFK must have felt a lot hotter than either LGA or the Park since the DP was near 80 there!

Do you think it's possible with our climate changing to one of more heat and moisture that we might actually stabilize with the number of highs we have in the 90s and temps of 100 or above might become a once in a decade occurrence? Instead of what the climate models have been predicting which is something like an average of 3 per year by 2050? In that case perhaps we should change how we measure heat to mean days with a dew point of 75 or higher? This is becoming like Florida, which also rarely gets 100 degree days, but certainly has a lot of high humidity.

whats the largest size hail we've had in our part of Nassau County? I was overseas in Europe one year in the 90s and when I came back I was told that a car dealership in Hewlett had many of their cars windshields destroyed because of large hail. I dont remember the exact year, but it was in the summer (June or July) in 1994 I think?

too bad hail doesn't count as snow but that doesn't mean it can't be treated as such by winter sports enthusiasts ;-) I wonder how long it stayed on the ground?

I was just going to post some stuff about wintry events of the past that I just remembered. There seems to be a boundary that sets up just SE of Oceanside in many borderline events. Example- in March 1993, the "Superstorm"- Oceanside got 10-11 inches of snow, like NYC/JFK got, but if you drove east of there totals quickly dropped- Massapequa only got 6 inches. Another one was the big ice storm in Jan 1994 where we got 2 inches of ZR! Just east of here the temps rose above freezing during the storm while we stayed below freezing the whole time! In the VD 2008 storm, a similar thing happened (albeit on a smaller scale) where we stayed below freezing during the entire event while Freeport and Long Beach rose well above freezing. We even had an event in Feb 2010 when we got 5" of a very wet snow while it was raining in Long Beach! Even when temps are well below freezing throughout the area, we seem to do better in el ninos- in the Feb 1983 storm, we had close to 2 feet of snow while NYC only had 18" In Jan 2016, our big one, we had 30 inches of snow while areas east and south of us had less. And who can forget PD2, where we also got in on 24+ totals!

Yea it was being called a hail glacier. I remember this happened a few years ago in the mountains in Mexico too. Not this extreme though. I wonder what the actual amount of hail that fell was? I take it this is the hail equivalent of drifting, so it was like they had 5-6 ft drifts lol.

Wow that's really interesting- I was wondering why we were warmer than JFK! Too bad this doesn't translate to rain/snow/mix lines in the winter though

Anyone hear about the crazy five feet of hail that fell in Mexico? Guadelajara I think?

the northeast needs to have more a/c too the pac nw also doesn't have enough

Even London and the rest of the UK do you think?

We get this way sometimes, sea breezes are far more fragile than rain/snow lines unless the wind is pretty strong. I had 90 degrees or over all four days- 90-93-90-93 The humidity was the worst today.

Excellent account. BTW we hit 90 here, I dont know why JFK lagged behind. There was a NW wind and temps definitely hit 90 on the south shore.

Was the derecho the bigger deal or the F2 tornado that hit close by? By the way I am still a bit confused of the F scale vs the EF scale, why did they not simply reassign the old F scale numbers and retain the name instead of categorizing older tornadoes with an obsolete scale that no longer exists? Like the way they changed the SS scale for hurricanes they could have changed the mph ranges for the F scale instead of having to create a whole new scale, and then the F scale could apply to both old and new tornadoes.