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Yes we really need controllable fusion like yesterday. I think we'll see it in our lifetime though, the EU has been making a lot of progress.

Bad allergies earlier, now gone since the wind stopped.

i think you need to move

That’s where fusion solves all problems. It’s the most renewable resource possible. If the USA were to devote the time, money and resources to fusion that we did to the Manhattan project or the Apollo missions we could have it in 20 years. It literally changes everything, unlimited clean power allows for unlimited desalination, geo carbon storage and the list goes on and on. One hope is that with advances in AI and quantum computing fusion technology advances faster.

Shave off 5 degrees and I'd say it was perfect.

We are already running a global climate altering experiment.

Perfectly thought out. There is theory, then, there is reality. I wouldn't say nuclear energy is totally safe. Human nature insures that. My biggest problem with nuclear energy is that we haven't solved the permanent storage of the waste. Right now, it is stored at the production sites. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but one of the suspected reasons for the drone sightings was that they were looking for missing radioactive material.

Theres a section of pine barrens up near my place in the Northern Adirondacks in Clinton County. Odd seeing that landscape up there...

Yep- Have camped there myself. We used to cannonball off the top of the counterbalance on the draw bridge over the Mullica River (flows into Great Bay) at night, that cedar water stayed cool all year around. Used to have a boat in Great Bay at a place called Rands marina, out on "7 bridges road". Sandy erased Rands from the map- not rebuilt. (Sold my boat prior). Cedar swamp "logging" is still practiced some- down near Delaware bay in Cumberland County. Some of those logs are "prehistoric" huge! I've also read that the Meadowlands up near where you grew up contained large Atlantic White Cedar stands. Some tiny replanting attempts are ongoing. Those swamps make great flood control measures- but BOY are they dark at night!

A top 10 day of the year.

Saturday showers looking very hit and miss. Mostly miss.

When I was in scouting - late '50s - we stayed in Tuckerton at a camping place called Chip's Folly (and caught fluke and blowfish in Great Bay). The camp was next to an Atlantic white cedar swamp, with water that looked like very dark tea. I've since read that cedar logs from 1,000 years ago have been dredged from similar bogs and in totally sound condition, being "pickled" for a millennium.

Agreed, 73/44 under deep blue skies.

72 and perfect

Injecting aerosol into the atmosphere on a large scale would be extremely risky. We don't know exactly what the impact would be and at the level that would be required to have a meaningful impact, the potential consequences to water resources (irrigation, drinking water, drought), farming (food production), and general weather patterns could be quite severe. This would seemingly also require international large-scale cooperation to avoid regional or global conflict. This type of technology might be worth investigating or attempting, but it is unlikely to be a magic fix... certainly not without major societal costs and unintended consequences.

This weather pattern would get us through summer without drought. Heights are only slightly AN and the latest front got through our region (though not the Deep South). Later in summer if the center of the ridge is north then t-showers can pop up down here on the underside. That's a humid outcome though. Fortunately we probably still have another couple months (at least six week) of fronts getting through.

Towers are popping up across the Smokies and rain shafts are developing. Looking forward to all the rain we can get in this pattern. The green up is nearing 4500 ft now.

It is not correct that renewables cannot provide sufficient baseload. That classic argument about winds not blowing or the sun not shining is outdated ignorance. Hydro, geothermal, and a variety of wind/solar with battery are completely viable alternatives technically. The issue comes down to economic viability. Nuclear can and does provide an excellent and relatively affordable supply of baseload power. The issue with nuclear comes down to society's appetite for risk. Fukushima Daiichi was considered much safer than most currently operating nuclear power plants in the US. We cannot anticipate and mitigate all sources of risk. Even if the likelihood of catastrophe is very low, if the consequences of such an event is that a large area is rendered essentially permanently uninhabitable, the overall risk assessment might force us to turn elsewhere. Society still doesn't have a permanent solution for spent nuclear fuel, which presents a significant risk for potential accident or terrorist act.

I'm not too far from there, actually. Just 3 years ago (again, in April) there was a Pinelands fire that burned almost 70,000 acres. I've read that the "cedar water" prevalent in the area (high acid tannin from all the Atlantic White cedars leaches into the water) retards the leaf litter from decomposing quickly- hence high tinder availability. Sea captains in Colonial times used to cask that cedar water for drinking aboard- as it would not "sour" quickly. You can still drink from cedar water springs in certain areas- as all waters emanating from the central Pines do not flow through man made pollutants. Sorry to go on. I love that area!

I can't hate this idea enough

This is insane to be trying to alter the weather

I don't know if i've ever seen this map this empty before, for a second i thought it didn't load. It's quiet out there, a little too quiet

Yep. 10/10

I grew up in northern Morris County and was 17 at that fire's date. The following super-dry and warm October, a fire on state land covered ~3,000 acres and persisted thru October and into November. The land was mostly loose rockpiles and the fire would follow roots under the stuff, often popping up behind the firefighters. The fire was only 3-4 miles from my HS, and each morning we'd look north to see where the smoke was most dense that day. Our grandkids live in Gloucester County farm country, a few miles west (thankfully) of the barrens. Southern Maine has a limited but significant acreage in pitch pine barrens. The climate is booth cooler (natch) and wetter than NJ and the soils, though not especially fertile, are a lot better was well. Therefore, the pines tend to be taller and crown fires in Maine barrens very rarely reach the crowns; frequent ground fires have sustained the ecotype, though the State Tree, Eastern white pine, is a problematic invasive there.