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The Southern Pine Beatle has been wreaking havoc on Pitch Pines, which is the dominate native pine tree found on Long Island and in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, for a couple years now. The drought last summer really amplified the destruction and the warm winter last year didn't kill off any bugs, so this summer was set for another round of outbreaks. Activists have criticized the NYDEC for not doing enough and there maybe some validity to that. While efforts to combat the bug have stepped up over the past year, some feel that the state has been neglecting these conservation areas far too long. Precautionary measures include prescribed fires and early removal of trees that are under stress, potentially from the bug. Some of these outbreaks have gotten so bad that it's too late in some spots. It's just another unfortunate thing, the pine barrens out east remind me of the south, places like the Carolinas that have tons of pine trees. Would hate to see that go away
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87/72 now, max of 91 earlier. Officially a heatwave here!
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88/73, max of 91 Today's certainly hotter than yesterday. Combined with dewpoints in the 70's it genuinely felt hot today
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91/74 on the home station, looks like the sea breeze is trying to move north
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90/73 Feels like 98 First 90 since July
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86 degrees here. Hit a high of 87 before the sea breeze. Clouds really hurting temps today. Yesterday's GEM-LAM and a few runs of the HRRR picked up the clouds and showers for today
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ISP has been in a sea breeze most of the summer compared to FRG. The days where FRG is several degrees higher than ISP is when ISP is in a sea breeze and FRG isn't. Yesterday had a southerly wind at ISP, FRG was NW most of the day, that's why FRG is hotter. ISP is very accurate, my highest temp in July was 91, ISP was also 91. My highest in August was 87, ISP was 88. It's been very accurate. The sea breeze has been a prominent feature for those on the south shore and east.
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ISP, and places south & east were in a sea breeze most of the day. Most stations out east barely made it out of the low 80's. My high was only 86 before the sea breeze. The stations are not off at all lol FOK was only 81
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84 here, high of 86. NYC might have fallen just short of 90 today. Looking hotter as we head into the week, NYC could have its first heatwave of the year. Wednesday may be the hottest for those closest to the coast with some offshore flow early in the day.
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I noticed this too. Black soot floating on top of the water in the pool filter intake, and it only occurs after it rains. Not sure what it is
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Non stop lightning! Torrential rains, some gusts up to 35mph
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You can barely make out the surface over NJ and the Delmarva with upper level smoke that thick. On a clear day, you can easily see surface features such as the shore. An example of a mostly clear day back in Sep 2019:
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Love how most of the smoke went around us. It's mostly elevated, but the RAP has the smoke to our west moving over the area tomorrow. Skies will be noticeably gray tomorrow
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4th longest streak of 80+ days came to an end yesterday. It's been more uncomfortably humid this past July than most
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It was 56 degrees at ISP on this day just 2 years ago in 2021 50's in July aren't that abnormal. Used to have as many sub 60 degree nights as 90 degree days
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Nice lightning storm to my south!
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Gusting to about 35mph, moderate rain still very windy. Cool orange skies
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Max of 89 today, currently 88/75, feels like 98 Only 2 90 degree days on the year. Reiterating a point made earlier, while temperatures haven't been impressive at all, the dew points make up for it to an extent. Heat indices here have been 95-105
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Just a dewpoint spike here. Temp still 89-90, actually was able to hit 90.1 even after the sea breeze. Feels hotter today, yesterday's breezy conditions helped a lot
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Maxed at 89.2 before the sea breeze front came through. Really struggling to hit 90 out here. Dewpoint is up by 2 but temp still hovering around 89
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86/74 Heat Index: 97 Maybe we can hit 90 before the sea breeze. Not much of a breeze at all today compared to yesterday
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Current temps EWR: 94 LGA: 94 NYC: 90 JFK: 89
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88/77 Heat index of 99
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Yesterday when hi-res models like the HRRR and GEM-LAM were not bullish on the heat, that's a sign. Yesterday the NWS had 92 for here today, now down 89 which will be closer to reality. Not sure what they were seeing
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Saturday might be the hottest day for the south shore when winds go westerly in the afternoon, as long as clouds and storms hold off.
