LibertyBell

Higher dew points actually make it more difficult for the temperature to rise as quickly,. the air takes on the physical properties of water.

Nope, but I'm not convinced that measuring in a concrete environment gives scientifically comparable results. And it's far more scientifically reasonable to assume that the rainier climate is keeping the maxes from rising as much as the mins are. Climate change means different things for different places and obviously affects summer much more differently than winter. No reason for alarmist talk of widespread 100+ numbers which obviously aren't happening.

Yes and it's always the worst plants not the ones we want

especially ants, they are right outside my front door lol, if I get a food delivery I have to be at the door otherwise the ants attack it en masse.

Be careful what you wish for lol. I have seen such an overgrowth of vines (I wrote about it in the NW thread) that it's hard to open my front door or get into my mailbox. All of this happened in just 5 days. I'm going to be spraying defoliant this weekend.

I'm surprised it grew so fast, it wasn't anything like this last Friday, can it really grow this fast in 5 days?

We really needed this heavy rain this morning..... we needed it so much that there are large vines in my mailbox and blocking my front door. Lovely. I'm going to be spraying defoliant all weekend.

you'd love the 101/45 of July 4, 2010 a lot more and so would our power grid.

some of this crappy overgrowth needs to die.

I'm not sure how we'd live if we had another year that dry.

Yes, I think we're reaching a tipping point where eventually those records will be broken, even if the years are wetter. Probably for the coastal areas too.

That was quite an achievement during the 2010-2013 era (JFK's last time was 2013), we had drier Julys back then, Tony.

It rained less back then, I think there were less trees because it was a drier era. Look at NYC's rainfall total from 1966, which was one of only two years in which NYC had 4 100+ days (the other was 1953-- in the same era) In 1966, NYC only had 26 inches of rain, nowadays we get that in a few months lol. LGA hit 107 in 1966 exceeding the 106 that NYC hit in 1936 (also in the same era.)

it matches the 5 years in the 1991-2002 period Tony, of which 1993 is at the top. 1993 and 2010 being at the top doesn't surprise me, since they were also two of our driest years. 2022 did well to come in third place, matching 1944 and 1988.

Yes indeed.... did you see Miami's historical record? I was shocked they only hit 100 in their entire recorded history and that was back in 1942.

One can argue that trees are part of our natural environment, while concrete is not.

95 with a dew point of 78 is MUCH worse (and much more boring) than 101 degrees and a dew point of 45 or even 55.

Looking at pictures from the 1930s-1950s era, I think that was a much drier era with much less foliage in our parks, which explains the more extreme heat of that era.

Yes Newark being inland has seen a rise in 90 degree days but not 95 or 100 degree days. So the wetter climate has been tempering their extreme heat too. But 1950 wasn't one of those hotter years like 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955. But I agree about mins, they are definitely elevated compared to the previous era.

So there hasn’t been any long term decline in 100° days in NJ and Central Queens away from the cooling influence off the bay at LGA during the 2020s. Oh yes there's been a notable decline in 100 degree heat, nothing to match 1993's 9 days of 100+ or 1949's 8 days of 100+ at EWR..... cmon Chris, CC has more of an influence on mins than it does on maxes and thats because of our new wetter climate. It's got way more to do with more rainfall and more of a subtropical rainforest climate we have now vs what we had in the 1930s-50s and the 1990s.

EWR: 97 (1993) now this is what a real hot summer is like....something we haven't seen in a long time.

as usual in our new climate, this isn't the 1950s.

101 degrees with a dew point of 45 would be far more comfortable and represent a lower power load.

I predicted this shit days ago.

Yes as usual in our new climate, without the 100+ highs.