LibertyBell

Ours was July 2010, I loved that month !!

I wonder if these 11 year hot summers are connected to the solar cycle. Look up these summers, all of them were very hot here: 1933, 1944*, 1955*, 1966*, 1977, 1988, 1999*, 2010*. A CONUS map of these summers is quite revealing. * denotes the hottest summer or hottest summer month to that point in the climate history.

I fully subscribe to climate change, but you must admit it affects winters much more than it does summers. Summers are judged by high temps anyway, like number of 90 and 100 degree days. The wetter springs and wetter summers are flatlining the number of hot days we have and shortening our heatwaves to 3-5 days or less, when we once used to have much longer heatwaves of 7-10 days or even more multiple times a summer (1999, 2002). I would dearly like to remove water vapor from the atmosphere and convert it to drinking water, which would ameliorate this issue somewhat.

carbon dioxide is treated like a villain but it's water vapor that is the real culprit (a worse greenhouse gas and an air pollutant to boot.) If we could remove about 30% of the water vapor out of the atmosphere and convert it to drinking water, this would go a long ways towards fixing CC and our fresh drinking water problems. I hate water vapor so I'm all aboard this train.

Hard to believe our rainfall totals are under one inch. But it looks like we'll end up in the .50-1.00 category, with the 1+ inches in eastern LI and NW areas. It's plenty of rain, looks like it's 90% done. Might get another tenth out of this that's about it.

Yes Happy Get Your Freak On Day-- I hope you have a full weekend of celebrating!!

That was Saturday May 10th in the Poconos, snow squalls periodically throughout the day, including some heavier bursts of snow that lay down dustings and coatings. The morning low was in the upper teens with wind chills around 0.

That reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock story about a lady dreaming about her own funeral in May with snow falling and laying a covering over the flowers. She thought this can't be possible, but that is exactly what happened.

wow it didn't touch land at all between the Bahamas and Long Island?

Was the 1977 event mostly during the day?

What's your thinking on the NAO for next winter? Do you agree if we see more blockiness this summer and a -NAO rainy summer that the chances are higher that we will have a +NAO for the winter with less snowfall (under 20 inches for NYC)? This is something I've noticed as a regular pattern for many decades.

I highly enjoyed this event and was in the Poconos for it and got to see snow for two days (May 9 and 10), it felt like the middle of winter. That was on a Friday and Saturday. An extra bonus was getting to see spring thunderstorms and hail on the following Monday.

How much did you get? And did you get more than this on May 9-10, 1977??

you're not wrong, and flooding does no good for anyone.

we'll see how many people love rain when we get widespread flooding and they are swimming in their basements.

it will be interesting if we see a hurricane come up on this path in September. I want a 1944 style pattern, hot with many 90 degree days and a few 100 degree days (my favorite early period summer) followed by a Cat 2 hurricane near the first day of fall. I could see a hurricane tracing that exact path to landfall in the middle of Long Island this fall.

we keep having these heavy bouts of tropical rainfall interspersed with dry periods, we just had another one.

One positive is that now both weekend days are forecast to be dry. So this will be gone by tomorrow morning.

Does it have anything to do with the gulf stream? We just had another bout of heavy rain a few minutes ago.

it sounds like this would also lead to cooler summers. so we are getting +nao in the winter and -nao in the spring and summer. Based on this alone I would forecast a +nao next winter with snowfall under 20 inches the more rain and blocking we get now and into summer the less cold and snow we will have in the winter. It's a formula that has worked for decades.

90 degree days in the summer and 90 inch snowfall in the winter and the added bonus of being ecologically friendly and not a light pollution mecca like the east coast is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona Dark Sky City [edit] Flagstaff takes one of its nicknames from its designation as the world's first International Dark Sky City, with deliberate measures to reduce light pollution beginning in 1958[139] supported by the environmentally-aware population and community advocates, government and elected officials, and the assistance of observatories in the area – including the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station and Lowell Observatory.[140][141][142][143] The city's designation as an International Dark Sky City was on October 24, 2001, by the International Dark-Sky Association, after a proposal by the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition to start the recognition program. It is seen as a world precedent in dark sky preservation.[144] Before this, it had been nicknamed the "Skylight City" in the 1890s, the same decade that the Lowell Observatory was founded.[145] In 1958, it passed Ordinance 400,[139] which outlawed using large or powerful searchlights within city limits. In the 1980s a series of measures were introduced for the city and Coconino County, and the Dark Sky Coalition was founded in 1999 by Chris Luginbuhl and Lance Diskan. Luginbuhl is a former U.S. Naval astronomer,[146] and Diskan had originally moved to Flagstaff from Los Angeles so that his children could grow up able to see stars, saying that "part of being human is looking up at the stars and being awestruck."[145] It was reported that even though greater restrictions on types of public lighting were introduced in 1989,[147] requiring them all to be low-emission, some public buildings like gas stations hadn't updated by 2002, after the Dark Sky designation.[148] Flagstaff and the surrounding area is split into four zones, each permitted different levels of light emissions. The highest restrictions are in south and west Flagstaff (near NAU and its observatory), and at the Naval, Braeside, and Lowell Observatories.[56] Photographs detecting emissions taken in 2017 show that Flagstaff's light is 14 times less than another Western city of comparable size, Cheyenne, Wyoming, which Luginbuhl described as "even better than [they] might have expected".[146]

too many spiders/scorpions/snakes/lizards (although no light pollution is really good.) Flagstaff would be a dream, snowy in the winter, dry and hot in the summer and a certified dark city with very low light pollution. the space heater works just fine heating everything up and drying it out, I have it set to 83 degrees now.

turning on my space heater actually stopped the allergies (for now anyway).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vQHostxRuQk17EBD-aiuNhDn5ldnPmzZF7x1WYiCbHPtY4Zi9YmZqJWHKmvlwW6QJ_mtv6g0fJNojT3/pubhtml?pli=1 Danbury received 1" of snow on May 9 1977 and Hartford received 1.3"-- these are the latest snowfalls on record for both locations. For the entire state of CT it's Litchfield on May 29 1909 when 4.6 inches fell there.

Yes it's mostly mold lol, my allergies act up just before it starts to rain, so last night was really bad and this morning. Maybe now it will be better because the rain should wash the spores out of the air. I don't have these when it's sunny and dry (although the wind makes it act up too.)