Sundog

Near 100% humidity and temps between 62 and 65 is not nice. I had until recently the windows open until it started feeling annoyingly sticky inside and had a nice puddle of water under my cup and on my cup. That was enough for me.

This might be the most depressing set of stats regarding tri state climate I've ever seen.

That GFS "blast" will quickly turn into a brief return to normal.

I wear shorts and flip flops well into October, especially the last 5 to 10 years ever since September turned into August Part 2.

Haha temps were between 65 and 70 and people are wearing jackets? The natives around here are turning into Floridians.

Yea I said between 1983 and 1993.

There was not a single snowstorm over 10 inches in NYC between 1983 and 1993 which is absurd. Couple that with almost all the 90s sucking and other systems that may have occured on days off or weekends and it's not hard to understand why there was never any days off back then.

But a few inches of snow fell at 10,000 feet in Glacier National Park! Everything is fine.

Where do you get these graphs from? They're quite useful.

Another 75+ dewpoint day for JFK.

When was the last time we had below normal water temps off the coast? I feel like they've been perpetually above to well above normal.

Do you think the nature of the heat is responsible for the lack of 100+ temps? I think most of our heat in summer over the last several yesrs is moisture laden with high dews.

Artificial dunes have a lower resistance to erosion than naturally created ones because of the lack of annual root systems taking root (no pun intended) and the higher permeability compared to natural dunes. If people just left the natural dunes alone coastal communities would be far safer. Too bad they takes decades to form, which means realistically they're never coming back.

But I thought it was only UHI that caused the warm lows!

It's a lot better today than yesterday. There's a strong breeze, the dews are a bit lower and temps are lower.

LGA went from 84 at 11:40AM with the NE wind to 95 one hour later at 12:40PM with the wind shifting to the south. Crazy jump.

Nothing should surprise you anymore.

I would be more impressed with early minimums decades ago when the ice was much more widespread and therefore had more vulnerable ice to give back. Getting an early minimum when all the easy ice is already melted and all we have is a compact core left is not as impressive, it's almost expected. What is impressive is how we continue to shed ice most years despite losing all the vulnerable ice well before the end of the season. Shows you how pathetic the cryosphere has been over the last 15 years.

AGW should be treated as any other insurance scenario. Nobody expects their house to burn down but I bet almost everybody out there (and everyone with a mortgage) has home insurance against several highly unlikely scenarios. Now we're talking about our whole planet, the only place we can call home. It's just a little bit more important than a few walls made of wood and brick yet we are currently playing with matches in a home with no insurance. Even if the uncertainty level regarding AGW was much higher than what it is now, we should still be all doing every damned thing possible to stop any type of GHG emissions. The risk of doing nothing is enormous. The gain even if AGW was not real is having a totally transformed energy economy with countless new jobs that will support it. There are literally no negatives.

Can any natural mechanism explain the dramatic increase increase in temperatures on land and in the oceans over the last few decades? When you show me one that can, let me know.

What hyperbole? Do you need to see iguanas colonize Antarctica to be convinced we have a serious problem?

I can see why earlier minimums can be more common with very low sea ice numbers since all the easy ice to melt is long gone while in more normal extent years there would have still been some vulnerable ice farther from the core to melt out.

We already know the Earth is fine for humans being a couple degrees cooler, because it was before the industrial revolution! I think it's better than doing nothing because we are definitely screwing up the Earth now. Why not at least try to offset the warming effects? Status quo is simply unacceptable.

Honestly, it's better than doing nothing, because that's what we're doing right now, absolutely nothing.

But can't we just "switch it off" so to speak if we see adverse effects?