LibertyBell

Social media is going wild right now about artificially generated storms that do not move and Grok isn't helping by stating that rain in Texas is artificially generated lmao. The good thing is people want to hold government accountable for these disasters, it's about time. https://x.com/grok/status/1941888242129002986 Yes, weather modification via cloud seeding is practiced in the US to enhance rainfall and suppress hail. In Texas, seven active programs cover ~31 million acres, overseen by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Recent bills aim to restrict it, like Sen. Hughes' SB 1154 (March 2025). It's not "chemtrails," which are a myth. Sources: TDLR, GAO report.

It's the worst weather disaster we've had in MANY years, flooding can be really deadly. Sometimes I wish that they would just dam up rivers that are prone to this kind of flooding.

Looks like Tuesday might be our next shot at widespread 90 degrees, Tony??

wow that sounds much like our March 2010 noreaster when we had 80 mph winds!!

Do you think it will be like last Thursday was??

It sucks because the last three days were so great. I didn't even mind the storms on Thursday because they led to a very rare triple rainbow here just before sunset.

I'd be willing to hazard a guess that the allergies were much lower back then too. I actually didn't have the kind of allergies I have now back in the 80s and 90s. Maybe for a brief period (like one or two weeks) in the spring. Now it's 6 months out of the year. By the way, I'm shocked the wind speed record is over 50 years old, you'd think that either Sandy or the December 1992 noreaster would hold that record.

the elevation is necessary to get above the shadows of the surrounding buildings.

Yep, as I thought, today is the last good day we will have for awhile, at least the weekend pattern has been changed.

mostly cloudy with scattered heavy showers is a wash out to me.

But much more representative of the concrete jungle urban conditions present in the city.

That's a great idea, if we have a mesonet location in the Park we can actually compare it to the *official* NWS ASOS.....and maybe some corrective factor can be applied to the ASOS (both for temperatures and wind speeds)?

Did we have less trees in the 40s, 50s and 60s when all those 100+ readings and 7+ day heatwaves were happening (as well as years like 1993 and 1999) or was there overgrowth because of the higher rainfall totals we have now? Maybe it's a combination of both? And more rainfall also means more water retention by the foliage which also makes for a slower temperature rise. I agree we need to get the equipment out of that area. We also need to remove some of these trees, I notice we have a lot of parasitic trees that really do not belong here. Tree of *Heaven* being a case in point.

Yeah thats why I said we might have days of rain starting Tuesday, now it looks like it might begin Monday =\

Thats how the roof at my other property was destroyed by falling oak trees, they don't have a deep root system and are vulnerable to microbursts and other strong wind events.

absolutely wild Chris.... and after the historic heatwave we had in July 1977.

This is why I advocate for the heliport (KJRB peaked at 105 in June). Besides the heliport, we can use rooftop stations. They would definitely be hotter than the shaded areas you speak of.

With the exception of June, this is why our heatwaves are weaker and do not last as long as they did in the 90s and the decades before then.

nice, EWR and JFK hotter than everyone else and also low humidity and deep blue skies....

Mighty hot July 1999 just getting started on this date.... Records:Highs:EWR: 103 (1999)NYC: 101 (1999)LGA: 100 (1999)JFK: 102 (1999)New Brnswck: 100 (1999) This day ranks with the hottest days ever in our area, when all official reporting stations recorded record highs in the triple digits on the same date!

If you go by decades rather than 30 year periods, our number of 90 degree days peaked during the 90s. You can run the numbers for all the locations you mentioned and also JFK. We had multiple historically hot summers during the 90s (91,93,95,99) and we have not had that kind of sustained heat since then (with the exception of 2010.)

But we should have local cooling breezes because New York City exists on islands (besides The Bronx of course.) I just don't believe that a park could ever be representative of urban conditions and the equipment should NEVER have been in a park to begin with. We have a heliport in lower Manhattan, that's where it should be. LGA is also hotter than most of the area because of how densely packed that region is and its overnight lows are always elevated compared to both JFK and Central Park. For Manhattan urban area purposes the equipment in Central Park needs to be taken out of the park and relocated to the heliport.

Just get the equipment out of Central Park and the problem is solved. Government needs to step in since NWS won't do a thing.

This might be the days of rain I saw on the forecast yesterday. Sunday might be our last good day for awhile.

The usual suspects are in the top 20, the summers I always talk about lol. Question though, why are we using 31 not 30? A month is scientifically speaking, the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth and that averages out to 30 days (it's really 29.53 but we can round that to 30.) 1. 1966 June 20 to July 20 ___________91.97 2. 1993 July 5 to Aug 4 ______________91.61 3. 1999 July 3 or 4 to Aug 2 or 3 ____ 90.94 4. 1955 July 8 to Aug 7 ______________ 90.90 5. 1944 July 22 to Aug 21 ___________ 90.84 6. 1980 July 14 to Aug 13 ____________ 90.71 t7. 1988A July 16 to Aug 15 ___________ 90.29 t7. 2010 June 27 to July 27 __________ 90.29 (or July 3 to Aug 2 was also 90.29) 9. 2005 July 15 to Aug 14 ___________ 89.87 10. 2011 July 4 to Aug 3 _____________ 89.84 11. 1983 July 11 to Aug 10 ____________ 89.71 12. 1952 June 24 to July 24 _________ 89.35 t13. 1977 July 13 to Aug 12 ___________ 89.29 t13. 1995 July 13 to Aug 12 ___________ 89.29 t15. 1876 June 23 to July 23 __________ 89.26 t15. 1991 June 24 to July 24 __________ 89.26 t15. 2006 July 11 to Aug 10 ____________89.26 18. 1949 July 13 to Aug 12 ____________ 89.13 __ a non-overlapping 31d interval June 11 to July 11 was 86.74 19. 1953 June 20 to July 20 __________ 88.90 __ non-overlapping 31d intervals Aug 8 (or 10) to Sep 7 (or 9) 87.00 20. 2002 Jul 20 or 22 to Aug 19 or 21_ 88.87 __ non-overlapping 31d interval June 20 or 21 to July 20 or 21 was 87.10