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LibertyBell

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  1. I can understand things being canceled Sunday, the Yankees game was played after a rain delay and it rained for much of the game, but Saturday was a mostly sunny day here and nothing should have been canceled that day.
  2. Do these weather apps have radar on them though? They really should not be canceling anything unless something is about to hit the area within the hour. It's been raining pretty hard here for the last 30 minutes or so.
  3. I thought we'd have most of our rain tonight, so this is a bit of a bonus.
  4. Yeah I don't get all the whining, it's raining when it's supposed to be raining. It wasn't supposed to rain that much over the weekend anyway.
  5. it's raining pretty steadily here
  6. lol this is weird, do you realize I wrote the exact same thing you did but in the ENSO thread? Nature's forms of balancing may well be saturated. They are the only thing that held back a Venus type runaway greenhouse effect. That dam may have broken.
  7. paradoxically, all those nukes going off at once would actually be a good thing if looked at through the lens of climate change, as it would result in a sudden and immediate drop in temperatures.
  8. science fiction writers are smarter than most people and have been incorporating this into their stories (as well as environmental collapse) going all the way back to the 1920s.
  9. the reason coastal areas have warmed more is because the oceans are heatsinks. We're very lucky the oceans are there to do that, otherwise the entire planet would have become like Venus already. It might yet one day anyway when the oceans become so warm they are completely saturated with heat.
  10. It's interesting how much the ocean has sucked up the heat which has stopped the increase of 90 and 100 degree heat which peaked in the 1990s (with another peak from 2010-13). The earth is trying to balance out humankind's excess by dumping the heat into the ocean, let's see how long that lasts.
  11. The rain might be great for some veggies but my newly bloomed red roses look all mangled right now.
  12. I was turning 10 years old and we had just moved into a new house and I was enjoying the central air and our big back yard with large pine trees and acorns lol where I played ball. Great memories!!
  13. why are we getting so many cut offs, this belongs in March lol
  14. Just wait til we get to Friday and Saturday when we might be in the 40s at night.
  15. September 1983 was a classic hot extended summer wasn't it, Chris? 6 days of 90+ including a 95 degree day in there on the 11th? This was after it hit 100 at JFK in August. Why does it look like it was below normal for the month of September on Long Island though?
  16. Next meaningful rain will be tonight. It's not a bad pattern at all, just wish it was sunny during the day, it can rain all it wants at night.
  17. These are the classic summers I grew up with that I knew and loved. I have dim memories of 1977 (mostly because of the blackout.... I think there's a pun there somewhere, unintentional I assure you lol) but stronger memories of 1980, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002. The summers in the 90s were when I was in college and enjoyed wonderfully sunny summers at the beach, I think those summers all the way up to 2002 were the best summers we've ever had, only usurped by 2010-2013 which also had wonderful weather. Since 2013 we just haven't had summers like that anymore. We haven't even had a stretch of 7 or more days of 90 degree heat in a row since 2002 (we had two that year and also two in 1999.)
  18. steady heavyish rain now, today has been a pretty rainy day and so will the next 2 days. This storm is not underperforming
  19. 100 degrees is what makes a summer memorable, if it has low dew points even better. I would love 101 degrees with a dew point of 60, we got a lot of that in 2010. There's also a nice correlation between hot summers and snowy winters. We had that in 1955, 1966, 1977, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2010, and 2013.
  20. when you look at summers like 1983 and 2011 though, wasn't it went both before and after summer? 1982-83 was a very strong el nino so naturally it had a very wet winter and I remember spring was very wet too. It was only the summer months that had lower rainfall. It makes me think that it gives the soil time to dry out before peak heating season. 2010-11 was of course a very snowy winter and also very wet. I don't remember what spring was like that year except for all the severe weather outbreaks across the south and midwest.
  21. it makes sense with a low track to the west, areas east of the low track usually see the least rainfall and it's almost always showery. 1.75 from such a storm track is actually pretty good.
  22. Either extreme is horrible, if I had my way we would have controlled rainfalls twice a week (mostly at night) of around half an inch each lol.
  23. The heavy rainfall will be Monday into Tuesday, it was nice to pull in a mostly nice weekend. I'm more upset about the Wednesday-Friday weather though. Two days of rain is enough but it's supposed to linger for most of the week?
  24. Yeah but we don't live in a desert, the normal rainfall we get is just fine. I haven't watered at all this year. Getting a quarter to a half an inch with each of these rainfalls is plenty. I think some people forgot what thats like-- getting 2-4 inch flooding rainfalls definitely isn't normal. Quarter to half inch rainfalls a couple of times a week is just fine.
  25. No only the people on this forum lol. Actually among the general population I guarantee that way more people want 100 degree temperatures than want a 20 inch snowstorm lol. I happen to love both. We have air conditioning for 100 degree temperatures and central heat for cold and snow. It gives us the luxury of enjoying all sorts of extreme conditions. Average or below normal or rainy summers are so boring, there is nothing interesting about them at all. There's no connection between rainfall and 100 degree temperatures by the way, I've found numerous wet springs and summers that still had 100 degree temperatures. When the heat really comes in, it can dry the soil VERY quickly. There is no more powerful object in our solar system than the power and heat of the sun!
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