Sundog

Last fall's drought put you in the hole from early on.

90/61 currently

The air is different today. Humidity up, heat is higher. Already 80 here with a dewpoint creeping up now just into the 60s. We have entered our crappier weather period.

I agree. 10 drops fell

And that 17 inches of rain we got in October 2005

I saw those as well as willets and black crowned night herons.

I was just at the nature preserve in Oceanside. It was a gorgeous day to watch some birds. I saw a bunch of different species, geese and seagulls not included haha

The choice was between super high dewpoints and heat or dry, coolish weather and some smoke. Obviously I'd take today over those other two lol

I briefly fell to 59 degrees this morning. Nice

Thank you! That difference is so significant considering it was only a 10 year update. Having both normals also reminds people how much things have changed.

Don I like these updates you do. Would it be too much to ask if you also added the potential departure from normal compared to the 1981-2010 normals as well? Many times, a month finishes a little below normal when the previous average would have yielded a little bit above average.

Have I mentioned how much I hate the Pivotal color pallete? I would have considered subscribing but I can't stand the colors.

Looks like there must be some wind off the ocean for the hottest area to be NW of the city.

I've been talking about shipping regulations boosting temps for a couple years. The general cleanup of air since the 1990s also contributed big time. And then we also have Hunga Tonga which of course just had to be a massive water vapor booster into the stratosphere instead of an aerosol release.

June 2009 was so cool because it basically rained the whole month correct?

I think the light rain may have given the park a leg up on reaching a colder overall low, I don't think the other spots got much at all, especially White Plains and Bridgeport.

Looks like the models have the bigger heat a hair inland as I see lots of southerly winds next week. It's also not that hot, some days are not hot at all. Good news for big heat haters.

I think it's been quite cordial back and forth

I had some green over me and it couldn't even fully get the ground wet, it's nothing

I just fixed my gutters because they were pouring water out the top instead of draining to the pipes and of course now it's not going to rain for like 2 weeks

Hi @FPizz

I do really care for the environment. My wife calls me a tree hugger lol I have degrees in Geology and even focused on paleoclimate and fossil fuel location. I created some beautiful cross sectional maps haha. So I'm not one of those flat Earthers who think climate change isn't happening or is not people's fault. I just know that, even by your numbers, the USA is NOT in control of 85% to 87% of all annual emissions. Practically speaking, I don't see how we can get this problem under control QUICK in order to give humanity some breathing room to transition over without using aerosols. We also have to develop nuclear for baseload power, we can't have a fully solar or wind powered grid unless there is massive development in battery energy storage on a huge scale. China didn't NEED build coal plants for the factories. They CHOSE to. They could power those factories with solar or wind can they not? Or even natural gas. But they chose the worst energy available. And the reason why America has contributed 25% of emissions historically is because we industrialized at a time when if you weren't burning wood for energy then you were burning coal. For a country TODAY to build new coal plants is wildly irresponsible when there are so many alternatives. I would say the same if the USA was industrializing today instead of 150 years ago. Unfortunately I do see from some people on the left say it's ok for third world countries to get a several decades break to allow major pollution from them because "the West did too," or, "they need to catch up." Incredibly stupid thought process. As if all the technological advancements that have been achieved over the last 100 years are not available to them! If China built 250 coal plants in 1920 I would understand. In 2025? Ridiculous. People who excuse this are not actually interested in solving this issue.

I'm starting to dread next week from now lol

All nations are corrupt. It's the extent to which they are that varies from country to country.

1. I see no evidence that we are trying to deplete all fossil fuel energy before switching over. And who are you referring to? Americans? The West? Asia? The whole world? 2. 90% of the problem IS from outside the USA. The United States produces about 10% of global emissions annually. 3. The Earth doesn't CARE about per capita pollution. It doesn't care if 100 people or 10 billion people are producing the greenhouse gases. All it knows and feels is the total amount emitted. 4. China installed about 100GW of energy from coal in only ten years, which going by the average sized coal plant translates to roughly 250 new coal plants. It doesn't matter if they also increased their renewable energy. Remember the Earth doesn't care about that, it only cares about total emissions, and China built a record amount of literally the worst type of energy. 5. Since renewable technology took off and was working at scale, we have had a Democratic president for 12 of the last 16 years. 6. People are putting profits ahead of the environment all over the world, and especially the third world. 7. We are currently running a planetary scale geoengineering experiment RIGHT NOW. What else would you call altering the atmospheric composition of an entire planet? Letting this experiment run its course is simply not an option. 8. I don't think we'll get to 800ppm, most of the world except Africa has fallen below replacement rate. 9. I am glad that you acknowledge that fossil fuels brought about the modern technological age and vastly improved humanity's standard of living. 10. In my ideal world there is no fossil fuel use anywhere in the world. But I'm not holding out hope. I think annual aerosol injections to bring temps down to 1C cooler than present will give humanity enough time to transition. I really think this is the only practical solution.