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Felt good today, hopefully the heat is subdued.

I believe one of the issues with wind and solar energy is that it is about 30 to 40 percent efficient at converting their energy to electricity. Oil and gas have much higher efficiency ratings. I'm sure we will continue to make progress in efficiency improvement for renewables as time goes by. In the mean time oil and gas will be number one if folks want to keep their standard of living the way it is. There are plenty of alternatives that I believe will some day take over and oil and gas will go by the way of the dinosaur. I have a hybrid pick up, great gas mileage and no worries about how far I have to travel. I think a good choice as we gradually go from oil to alternatives.

81 for a high today, now 74. Cooler than normal, felt good.

Yes a dud as far as snow goes but at least it was colder than normal (although not by much), rare in recent years.

Moon had an orange tint to it here tonight. Nothing like that.

We had a white Christmas last year.

59 degrees last night, first 50s here since June 16th

The weather may cause the fires to be more severe by having more dry conditions that adds fuel to the fire. Except for lightning, the fires are set by people or things like power lines. The vast majority of the fires would probably never exist if it wasn't for human intervention of some kind.

At my house June of this year was a degree cooler than last year and July a degree warmer than last year.

Not really because two years ago was the same as last year. However, there is still 5 months to go this year but so far so good.

I hope not but I would not be surprised if it does.

The streak continues at Central Park with every month this year being chillier than last year. Glad to see this seeing last year was record warmth.

raining again here, up to 1.89 on the day

Brisk NE wind has made it feel much better outside.

1.73 inches of rain here, temperature 73.9

Rain has let up but still raining, 1.56 inches has fallen.

1.25 inches of rain here in about 45 minutes, still coming down hard.

Approaching an inch of rain here, just in the past 40 minutes or so. Still pouring

Wind now out of the NE here, clouds back.

Yea I remember it in the fall.

How about the days when people burned their leaves. Now that created some smokey conditions.

Sun has popped back out here and the temperature has gone up to 88, did not expect this warmth.

Yea that is unusual even in the past.

As warm as this month has been, it will be the first month this year that will be warmer than the same month last year, at Central Park. Of course Last year was a record warm year. Also this month will be warmer than last July by only a tenth or so.

Picked up .22 here this evening.