LibertyBell

Thanks Don. I heard that Death Valley hit 130 degrees?! It's the first 130 degree temp in the modern era and if verified it will be the ONLY 130 degree temp ever recorded in the shade!

How long do you plan to be around though? I'd put the hard limit at around 2050 which I'm sure 90% of coastal residents living near sea level will have experienced it in some way, shape or form.

I think the major news over the upcoming decade will be the rapid melting in Antarctica.

They might say that but we're tinkering with nature already. Also, we're going to be tinkering with other planets anyway, like Mars. The only real way to fix something bad we've done is to neutralize it by doing something good. Doing "something good" also consists of prosecuting the fossil fuel industry, imprisoning the people who run those companies and fining them to bankruptcy and seizing all their assets, and yes this needs to be done on a worldwide level. I'm sure by now you've read about how they've been going after lawyers who file lawsuits against them on behalf of third world nations where they cause more pollution and death than anywhere else.

I like the droughts more, as the higher dew points result in breathing difficulties and more pollution. Do you think it will be possible to invent a global dehumidifier to suck out all this excess humidity? After all, water vapor is a GHG. I wouldn't mind if humankind found a way to lower sea levels by reclaiming some of the land lost to the oceans (70% oceans is a little too much, it should be more like 50% ocean 50% land.) Anything that happens can also be geoengineered away. It's high time humanity started tinkering with the environment to fix it rather than just let it all go downhill. Looks like we will be doing the same on Mars within the next few decades, as NASA just sent a rover there that converts CO2 to O2.

did NYC average 80.0 for the month, Chris?

Waiting for today's update, Tony

why are we still allowing for development along the shore? I know that Miami, New Orleans, Charleston, and NYC all have plans to replenish the sand and even build sea walls to keep the ocean at bay, but at some point it wont be enough. NYC has a trillion dollar plan to extend the coast outwards.

Yesterday was the way heat is supposed to be! lol NYC was 4 degrees cooler than JFK

bleh I thought JFK reached 90 here yesterday? We did (just barely) hit 90 here in SW Nassau. TV Met on ABC said "all NYC airports hit 90"

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

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?

Is this connected to the record heat we have been seeing across the north (Siberia, Canada, Vermont, Maine, Northern NY, etc?)

wow, it's a rare day to see NYC exceed EWR! also on the day before, 7/5, did you record LGA's high temp as 96.8?!

Looks like Antarctic ice melt is accelerating too, based on latest research around 3x faster over the past decade than the decade before. Interesting times are ahead ;-)

from what I saw, it probably wont reach 90 any time this week on Long Island and peak heat (if you can call it that) will be upper 80s on Friday. Saturday will be cooler.

indeed, even with massive fossil fuel reductions which I believe we will see in this decade, it simply will not be enough and people will be migrating away from the coasts....with the melt offs occurring over both poles.

Did you read about this incredible heat and forest fires in Siberia? They've been +20 F in heat for like six months now and just hit 100 F- first time ever north of the arctic circle! Unprecedented heat in Siberia which the media isn't really talking about. I've noticed hotter temps occurring farther north this year, seems like the attic fire that started in the high Arctic has spread farther south and has now reached northern VT and Maine with temps approaching 100 there, all time records. https://twitter.com/weatherdak/status/1274880733052469249 https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1274757559216476160 https://twitter.com/weatherdak/status/1 ... 3052469249 that has videos of the fires in northern Siberia here is the official record of the 100.4 temp at Verhoyansk https://twitter.com/capitalweather/stat ... 9216476160 We've already seen the negative effects of a snowless winter here......nasty explosion of bugs this year, with a horde of gnats near my Poconos home that makes working in my garden impossible. I thought it was just this community but when I went down the mountain to a nearby town, they were mobbing people there too! I've also had to spray bug barrier throughout my other home on Long Island, where I now have wolf spiders along with their eggs (eek), I saw one in my bedroom and could not sleep there for a week! They are hairy, with warning stripes on their legs, black and grey (to warn others of being poisonous) and I haven't had these in a decade or so. I sprayed so much bug barrier to get rid of them that my throat and nose were burning! I just hope I dont get any centipedes later on, because I haven't had them in a long time either.....it's the combo of a warm wet winter followed by a warm wet spring and now this hot humid weather that has caused this population explosion of bugs. I wish all the birds I get in both gardens would eat them all up, but they seem to be content singing and taking baths in my pond! We also have a 50% reduction in monarch butterflies (an important pollinator) because of pesticides killing their favorite food, milkweed, as well as the changing climate. But now everyone is planting milkweed along the roads and highways, so maybe they will have a comeback?

we'll probably have a S flow with cooler weather at the coast, that has been the theme so far.

I dont know, the 100.4 at Verkhoyansk was pretty exciting.....if they ever have a really cold winter again they could become the only place in the world that has seen -100 and +100 (current cold record is -90).

I thought there was a report that there was a 6% reduction? Still just a drop in the bucket. Of more interest is this: Some good news coming out of all this (after being condemned by the UN) is both China and Vietnam are starting to close down those unsanitary wet markets. Axios and PBS interviewed world renowned biologist Sir David Attenborough and he talked about the connections between biodiversity, pandemics and climate change and how poaching of elephants and other imported animals from Africa to Asia impacts deforestation (because these animals move seeds from one place to another in the African forests). He is now 93 yrs old and he said that when he was growing up in the 30s, about 67% of the planet was wilderness, which was down to about 50% during the 90s, and now is down to only 25%. These forests are integral because they act as carbon sinks. He also mentioned that pandemics are becoming more common because of people cutting down more forests and venturing into areas where exotic animals live and coming into contact with new viruses. Also mentioned was the release of once dormant microbes from under melting sea ice in Siberia. He said that he thinks this pandemic will teach us lessons about how quick changes need to be made to thwart the oncoming climate crisis. He also mentioned that giving urban areas access to more nutritious food is vitally important (less processed food, less sugar, etc-- sugary food and fast food can become addictive because of the release of dopamine and has been implicated in the quick rise of diabetes type 2, obesity and high blood pressure in young people, which, along with asthma from air pollution, have been shown to be major pre-existing conditions involved in covid19 deaths) and reducing air pollution by continuing the switch to electric vehicles (no NO2 emission.) Update on the death figures- Johns Hopkins Hospital thinks that the number of people who have died from this virus in the US might be double the reported figures, because the number of people who have died at home has not been reported. The estimate of 25% infection rate in NYC may also be an underestimate. Research out of California indicates that if we loosen restrictions over the summer, the infection rate will become higher than it ever was by August. They say if we keep the restrictions as they are now, the infection rate will rise to above 30% but if we loosen restrictions the infection rate will be around 95% in August. The UK being slow to close things down, looks like PM Boris Johnson has changed his tune from being cavalier to much more cautious about opening things back up now that he's been hospitalized for the infection himself and is a newly minted father. The nations that shut down fastest did the best (like New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Germany, South Korea, Finland, Iceland, etc.) The most likely scenario and the one which China and Vietnam are now starting to shut down are the unsanitary wet markets and the importation of exotic mammals with exotic viruses that humans haven't come into close contact with before. 60 Minutes did a great piece on this last Sunday and China has started to shut them down after the UN singled them out these wet markets as a source for exotic viruses.

it was snowing pretty hard, not sure why it wasn't sticking in the city. Jersey Shore had 6-8", JFK had 4-5"

we had 5" here in April 1996 on this day, but that one just missed the urban areas over a foot of snow and blizzard conditions in Suffolk County.

extremes 1991 and 2010 vs 1982....... 90s on the same date vs a true cold blizzard

I'm thinking that we are going back into a similar pattern wrt to our next few summers also (and next year will be near the peak of the 11 yr solar cycle of very hot summers.)