LibertyBell

JFK's only 90 degree day in August- and the last for the year? That doesn't even begin to cover how humid it's been and the humidity is definitely way worse than the heat!

Chris how much wind is required to do this much damage? Was it a microburst? That 60 mph report doesn't seem to be enough- you didn't see stuff like this even in Sandy. I estimate the wind must have been 100 mph. And these are pics of my sister's house after the microburst I told you about. How strong could the winds have been there to do this?

I've heard that pets are dying from drinking pond water or even just swimming in it. PS the tap water here isn't healthy to drink anymore. I made the mistake of doing that earlier in the summer and I was immediately suffering from horrible cramps. Tried it again last week, same result. The pain was so intense that I was bent over while running to the bathroom both times. It happened to me last summer too. Not going to drink tap water anymore during the summer.

Yea he is Trump lite. At some point, we need to realize that the Amazon is WAY more important than the nation of Brazil or any other country for that matter. There should be an international environmental corps with muscle that steps in and prevents them from doing this, regardless of what Brazil's "leader" says.... that also applies to Trump and what he's been doing to endangered species and drilling on public lands. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about eliminating meat completely, but lessening it to about 10% of the diet, which would benefit us environmentally as well as healthwise (see ACA and AHA recommendations.) You're right about overpopulation and densely populated cities being a problem, that increases pollution (see rising asthma rates and the health impact of light pollution as well as toxic waste) and frankly, too high of a population growth rate in developing nations in Africa is more of a problem than poachers are. We are in the middle of a mass extinction right now because humanity is seizing land that should be set aside for nature, not to mention other problems that go along with this issue, like climate change and plastic in the oceans. Studies have shown that the best way to reduce climate change is to have one less child. That reduces our carbon footprint faster than anything else does.

ranchers and loggers are trying to clear the forest for their own use, ignoring the fact that the Amazon provides about 20% of the oxygen we breathe

Either way, the consumption of meat has to lessen (both for the environment and for our health.) Land use is a major issue. Going on the climate change train.... emission of methane from herd animals as a whole accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any nation in the world besides China and the US. And as China and India are "developing" they are adopting more of the unhealthy Western diet and consuming more meat.

too much consumption of meat is widely known to be a health as well as environmental issue. If everyone consumed as much meat as America does, the world would have ran out of fresh water back in 2005. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about eliminating meat completely, but lessening it to about 10% of the diet, which would benefit us environmentally as well as healthwise (see ACA and AHA recommendations.) You're right about overpopulation and densely populated cities being a problem, that increases pollution (see rising asthma rates and the health impact of light pollution as well as toxic waste) and frankly, too high of a population growth rate in developing nations in Africa is more of a problem than poachers are. We are in the middle of a mass extinction right now because humanity is seizing land that should be set aside for nature, not to mention other problems that go along with this issue, like climate change and plastic in the oceans. Studies have shown that the best way to reduce climate change is to have one less child. That reduces our carbon footprint faster than anything else does. Just look at the fires in the Amazon- who started them? Cattle ranchers and loggers. They should be in prison for life for doing that.

We havent hit 90 in August until now. It doesn't matter though, mid 80s with dew points in the upper 70s is a lot worse than 90s with dry heat. Hell, it feels worse than even 100 degrees with dry heat.

I'd rather have more heat and less humidity The water here on Long Island is awful, we're seeing a lot of health problems from the rise in infections due to bacteria in the water. We also have new species of ticks that have come here and carry infections. What puzzles me is that although the humidity has been really high here, the summer has still been rather dry in SW Nassau. Things are starting to turn yellow. Why isn't all that humidity precipitating?

It was great but all the flooding rain that happened after it caused massive problems including roof collapses and power outages. I was amazed to see how quickly the pattern changed but equally amazed to see it go back to cold and snowy at the end of the month! A month after the big blizzard we had our next big snowstorm of a foot!

Did you see the new UN report about how the way we use land is destroying our environment (we need to switch to a 90% vegetable based diet and stop using so much land for animal grazing) as well as how the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is going to turn that area into a savannah with drought conditions? There was 11 million gallons of ice meltage on land in Greenland in one day, with 35 million gallons in the month of July. A thousand year old glacier in Iceland that used to be 20 miles long melted entirely. Sea levels have been rising a half inch per month, I wonder if that will accelerate with all this ice melt going on in Greenland and Antarctica. I wonder if summers like 1983 will become much more common for us.

I was thinking we would be in a higher than normal likelihood for a TC near the coast with that high to our NE. Chris, do you have any info on a microburst hitting Jim Thorpe/Penn Forest township in E PA and how strong the winds might have been? Nothing was on the news, even there, but my sister lives there and she said a ton of trees came down on her property last Thursday night and there was no power for 10 hours. The trees that came down were large oaks that were over 100 years old, but the damage was isolated to her side of the street. There was no damage on the other side of the street or at lower elevations (she lives on a mountain that overlooks Jim Thorpe.)

I think Long Island was hit by a tornado in January... one of those early morning warm front deals

We had severe wx in our area a couple weeks after the blizzard of 1996....

One of these years we'll see a TC develop right in our own backward and curve westward right into C NJ.

1983 was amazing for both temps and humidity, I wonder if we're going to see summers like that become more common.

early fall, got to love it! perfect for that meteor shower and asteroid close call this weekend!

Still not as hot as 2010-13, we will probably be up there again starting either next summer or definitely the summer after that (2021), 2021 should be the apex summer for the decade since it follows the 11 year cycle.

wow Boston had a hotter July than either of you, and their hottest on record, around 78.5 avg temp.

and even early October! Fall began around October 15th last year

Don, looks like Boston had their hottest July on record? 78.5 avg temp?

Thanks, Victoria is right on the water I believe so that might be more equivalent to a southern UK beach location. London and Seattle are more equivalent as you said. I wonder what Paris and its outlandish 109 degrees equates to? Portland, Oregon? https://localreviews.knoji.com/10-alltime-hottest-weather-temperature-days-in-portland/ They reached 107 multiple times, so it's pretty close to 109. Most people do not associate the city of Portland with hot weather, but it can get hot here. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Portland, Oregon is 107 degrees, which occurred on August 10, 1981, August 8, 1981 and July 30, 1965. https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/OR/Portland/extreme-annual-portland-high-temperature.php These records were observed near downtown Portland and go back to 1875. Thehighest temperature measured during that time was 107 degrees Fahrenheit (42 Celsius) on August 10, 1981 plus earlier days that month, and on July 2, 1942.

Thanks for the data, has Vancouver (Victoria) reached 100?

Yes they should have someone there 24/7 to protect it. I wonder if there's a way to permanently mount it so it can never be moved? Once they get it back to where it used to be, of course.

Should have been 80.0+