LibertyBell

1980 belongs in the hall of fame for heat.....did you calculate the average temp of July and August combined? If I'm not mistaken it comes out to 80! July averaged 79.7 and August averaged 80.2 (hottest August on record I think?) For some reason 1980 doesn't get mentioned that often but we had a heat wave of epic proportions for both durability and geographic size that covered the entire CONUS (except for the extreme NW and extreme NE, basically WA and ME)

damn I missed it! was it brighter than Venus? was it more like a fast flash or a slow streak?

0z and 12z have traditionally performed better than 6z and 18z

do you also see very limited east coast TC landfall potential? at the very least, it's not as favorable as it was earlier in the summer....it looks to me to be a pattern where systems will pass to our south and hit Fla or enter the Gulf or recurve out to sea. Perhaps later in September (after the 20th) and into October will enter another hazardous period.

ha you ninja'ed me.....I mentioned that in regards to July because it was an 80 degree avg month. It was a bonafide very hot month (also because half the days had a high of 90 or higher.)

Yep, July was very hot (80 degree avg temp is my goal post for that and/or half the days at or above 90), but sensibly, neither June nor August has been all that hot.

If we want to talk politics for a minute, I see inaction even on the Democratic side. Why do so-called moderates sneer at the "Green New Deal"? And not coincidentally it's the same so-called moderates who have been taking large bribes- er donations- from the fossil fuel industry. And I see Tom Perez (who needs to go) has intentionally removed people from committees to replace them with lobbyists for the industry. They seem to think they can make changes very slowly and still use large amounts of fossil fuels. Science says differently, we need to go to two thirds renewables by 2030 (we are around one third renewables right now) and be completely carbon neutral at the latest by 2050. And that's the whole planet. So there has to be similar rapid changes in other nations also (including the developing world.) The only way forward is renewable+nuclear (both fission and eventually fusion).

Yeah, I would change the way we calculate heat to number of 90 degree days, it doesn't feel anywhere near as hot as either 1993 or 2010.

Don this summer hasn't been anywhere near as consistently hot as either 1993 or 2010. This year we basically had one hot month. We need a different way of calculating heat (let's use number of 90 degree days), it doesn't even feel anywhere near as hot as 1993 and 2010 did.

why has it been cloudy almost every day for like two weeks? I miss the clear skies we used to have so frequently a few weeks ago

How exactly does this summer rank higher than 2010 and 1993 at LGA and other prominent sites? Those summers were demonstrably hotter and hotter for the ENTIRE summer. This summer it was all concentrated into one month.....

and whats being completely ignored is where the concrete that leads to the urban heat island effect comes from as well as the health impact of this so-called "local effect" it's not local, more and more of the planet is becoming urbanized and it has a deleterious health impact, not to mention the ugly air pollution increase from more people driving more dirty fuel powered vehicles....air pollution shortens life expectancy more than tobacco does. concrete, plastic, etc., all this garbage has but one source.....

even if what you say is true, urban heat island aint a good thing- too much concrete...and higher overnight mins during the summer in urban areas leads to various health problems. It's why you need to switch to green

ocean drones? that reminds me of the autonomous vehicles being used to mine the ocean floor

I mean it's happening right before our eyes and at an ever accelerating pace. Future generations are going to look back and say what fools......

entropy.....either we make the necessary changes or nature will do it for us

and lower air quality, the air pollution there is awful!

Don the fires in Brazil and Siberia may also be implicated in this. Aren't the fires in Brazil way out of season? It's still winter there!

PBS is number 1 on my list for both science and news. Thanks for posting this, Don! The stuck patterns also seem to be resulting in more "wet bomb" precip events (3"+ rainfall events) and TCs that move slowly (Like Harvey and Florence).

I remember we had a close miss in mid December 2010 and most thought we'd have a very low snowfall season, and then the big multi model bust came that gave us the Boxing Day surprise and the rest, as they say, was history (and historic.)

lol you got that idea from me since I always talk about putting a sea breeze wall up on the south shore.

I wonder why no majors this year? Too much shear?

So I was driving back from NE PA to Long Island. Ran into a huge dark thunderstorm on I-80 near the Morristown exit (43) at around 7 PM and it started to rain heavily right after that. Heavy rain continued for more than an hour and traffic was really slow with flooding on I-80 all the way east, and it was raining hard right to the Lincoln Tunnel and even in Manhattan, more than an hour later. Couldn't really see outside, it was raining so hard. Heavy rain was still falling in Queens when I got there around 9 PM and it only got lighter when I got to Long Island around 9:30. It briefly got heavy there at around a quarter to 10 when I was safely home but it ended before 11 PM. Lots of lightning too.

nothing could be as extreme as the 15-16 winter....going from a warm December to a 30 inch snowstorm in January to below zero on Valentines Day, wow......

they only remember when it snows lol. selective memory ;-)