Sundog

It's not just ConEd's fault. They are taking advantage of our infinitely stupid government. "Let's shut down 20% of NYC's electricity supply that is already clean and immune to global price shocks with nothing in place to replace it!" That's just one example.

96 sounds like a lot until you see Ambient weather stations at 95 degrees on Staten Island and several others at 95 or 96 all around the airport, even in much quieter neighborhoods.

Sadly the speed with which this happened and the timing created a perfect storm for losses.

End of June heatwave wasn't so bad, we didn't even hit 100 once! Lol

I just casually checked a few Ambient weather stations in the green suburbs just west of Newark airport and they mostly topped off at 99 degrees. Newark actually represents actual communities. Central Park only represents the 10 square feet around the station.

I think you'll find Central Park deviates more from the mean compared to Newark. Yesterday I was 98 degrees and I am all single family homes with trees and grass. LGA was also 98. Newark was 100. Central Park though was only 93! Come on bro

My issue with Central Park is the same as Sacrus's, people reference it as the station of record. If it was Islip being stupid I wouldn't care nearly as much.

The station is at the airport though, not in the city of Newark. The city itself is north of the airport, which is not where the wind blows from during heatwaves to begin with. Directly west of the airport, it's all single family homes with grass and trees. I would have posted a screenshot but this stupid forum caps images at 12 kilobytes like it's 1995. Meanwhile the Central Park station is inside the most urban environment in the entire country.

Newark is suburbia and then rural to its west and southwest though. When the winds are westerly or southwesterly during heatwaves, they are blowing over a lot of greenery and open space. The Central Park station is in a mini jungle, improperly sited compared to all the other official stations surrounded by concrete. So the conditions between these two stations are actually the opposite. East Jersey naturally is the hottest area, probably due to some downsloping. Other personal stations in that area even in suburbia get basically as hot as Newark does, you can see them on the Ambient Weather website.

I'm back above my day's high and am at 98 degrees with a 74 degree dewpoint. I didn't think it would get this hot wtf

I peaked at 97 degrees, now 96 degrees. 96/74, what a pleasant afternoon.

Torching here, 95 degrees with a 75 degree dewpoint

I'd like to know how bad things have to get before people are like fcck it just do the stratospheric aerosol injection. I would have already dropped planetary temperatures down to pre industrial levels if I was king of the world. To be fair, I would also be massively transitioning to clean energy and simultaneously be slowly easing off the aerosols over time.

Don't count out stratospheric aerosol injection. Or nuclear winter.

Somerville is reporting 80 degrees with an 80 degree dewpoint and fog/mist. What is this insanity