Sundog

Miami's average high was probably already mid to upper 80s so a couple degrees increase in averages puts their number of 90+ degree days way higher. They probably had a ton of days maxxing out at 88 or 89 and now they have all those days maxxing out at 90 or 91 instead.

The only Onceler I know is from The Lorax lol

It depends on the bug. Lanterflies have been found to not do the damage they were feared to cause. Thank goodness. The Asian Longhorned Beetle was bad though. It would kill the tree. But because it's easy to spot and doesn't move as swiftly they actually did a good job of keeping it under control.

If the damage is too far gone there's nothing you can do. A couple years ago the city came around and put a green dot on all the Ash trees and then injected insecticide. What's annoying is that these little beasts move fast to damage a tree. They did this last year too. I think you can only slow/possibly halt the damage if you consistently inject insecticide but otherwise you can't do anything else.

Also lots of Sweet Gums in my area

Seriously though I'm a huge tree lover and all this crap we've had to deal with is very depressing. I've mentioned before I had to cut down a huge 60 year old Ash 3 years ago from my backyard that made great shade and amazing fall color because of the Emerald Ash Borer Literally all of it is a product of globalization correct? I think all the pests/diseases are all imports?

And yet we have more trees today than 100 years ago in the eastern US lol I guess they're all just a variety of oak and maple haha

The trends are the problem. Before the last three years I can recall only one time having smoke come into our area, back in 2002.

It's the third world, they typically have zero regard for the environment or the biodiversity that is destroyed by their actions. Caring for the environment is a first world issue. There is more value in the Amazon per square mile in terms of biodiversity than any other place on Earth.

We just have to deal with it, there is not solution. Usually I would say go after the arsonists hard since humans cause the vast majority of wildfires, but in the case of remote Canada this is not the case.

I suffer from back problems. I've been thinking of removing my spine so that I don't have to deal with the pain any longer.

Family friends used to have a boxer growing up, when I was like 10 I would fight with him as he was pulling on a pig skin and I was pulling on the other end, if he really wanted to he could drag me across the floor lol Boxers are literally a pile of muscle

Was 1966 a very dry year? I think a bunch of those years around then were very dry and that probably helped the heat too.

Models have Father's Day ruined.

Looks like area wide 100s if you strip away the numbers

Won't someone think of the mud!

That last graph by @bluewaveis the ugliest chart I've ever seen.

It was 2021 or 2022 or something like that

A few years ago during summer the entire south shore was extremely parched

It smells like the sea

I don't recall any forecasts saying temps would stay this low during the day.

Why has this year been so bad? There hasn't been anything exatraordinary about our weather over the last couple months.

I'd rather hot, dry days intermixed with legit below normal days, the way things were. I love the fact that July 1936 that gave us 106 degrees in NYC actually finished below normal, -1.3 by today's fake new normals. 90% of the lows that month were in the 60s and about half the month had lows 65 degrees or lower. Three nights had lows of 60 degrees. There were already 8 million people in NYC in the 1930s, so the UHI was already alive and well at the time. There were more people in NYC in the 1930s then the second biggest city in the USA, L.A., has today in 2025. I HATE high minimums and these digusting higher dewpoints we always have now.

We have 90% of summer still ahead of us. I will bet we finish above normal by the end of August.

If averages are 80 then having highs in the 70s are not exactly jacket weather. It's still summer weather, just not 90 and humid.