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Dark Star

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  1. But the worst are "Activists" trying to make a point out there...
  2. I would have hoped that businesses would have learned during covid that you DON'T have to meet in person for a lot of things.
  3. I realize the political and financial ties to "prioritizing" fedex, but you CANNOT put the commercial flights second to moving cargo. Both are big business, but I'm pretty sure the FAA's priority should be the safety of the citizen's (passengers). We know airports play the game of hiding delays/cancellations by manipulating definitions, but Newark Airport seemed to be over the top. If Newark airport continues to have too many cancellations, then cargo has to be minimalized - reduced flights and only allowed during "off hours". So you get your package one or two days later. Thanks for your insight to some other the other "below the radar" problems going on there. The federal government is offering bonuses to Air Traffic Controllers who ae retiring to try to keep them on. They will also need to increase starting salaries to hire new QUALIFIED recruits based on merit. Pilots are a premium as well. I knew at some point, the ex-air force pilot pool would dwindle, as fewer pilots are available. They were the natural work force to hire to fly commercial aircraft - pre-trained, serious, regimented and civic minded. Hiring someone to fly a twin turbine jumbo jet with only small prop plane experience and getting a waiver by taking an exam is silly.
  4. It is 2025. Should we be using the most recent 30 year average temperatures from 1994 through 2024 instead of 1991-2020, if we are really concerned about comparing our daily averages to a "representative" trend? I sense many inconsistencies with not using the full history of data to calculate the daily average temperature instead of some "arbitrary" set of years. I mean, if you want to emphasize recent trends, why are you discounting the most recent 4 years?
  5. But does the park represent the concrete heat jungle of Manhattan?
  6. It was shaping up to be a perfect day.
  7. I don't know. It seems the winds have been more prevalent the last 10 years ago, or so. I think someone on this site has posted some data, suggesting that this is true...
  8. Maybe a helmet as well?
  9. I'd rather have a better view of Uranus...
  10. Not sure, but I think the wind is supposed to kick in tomorrow, as the storm deepens and moves north of us?
  11. I think it will become one, north of us. I do believe that heavier rain was expected for most of NJ today?
  12. Anything to keep the heat down...
  13. Does Brooklyn count? 0.16" here in Linden NJ for May 21st
  14. Looks like the heaviest will be east of Newark NJ?
  15. Sort of hard to believe that we don't have confidence at least in "trends" of temperature more than 10 days out in the year 2025. Then again, I'm surprised at a lot of things in 2025...
  16. That would be me, whoops, I just did...
  17. My guess is that the models don't account for surface friction and that most of the time, the mixing down gets "stuck" at the lowest levels? Winds are the hardest thing to predict. It used to be how much snow was going to fall from any one particular system. Of course, if you ask me, it has been unusually windy over the last 10 years or so?
  18. They almost ALWAYS are.
  19. Most "summertimne" activities begin Memorial Day. Sometimes its, hot, sometimes its not. Forget the ocean temperature. People still go to the beach to get a tan and do whatever else. June is historically warm. By the 4th of July, if you blink, summertime is over. And you are allowed to start wearing white clothes after Memorial Day. So yes, Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, especially since it is so close to June 01, the beginning of meteorological summer...
  20. While I realize tornados are spawned as a result of multiple synoptic features coming together at the same area, I still am amazed that there are so many of them at night. Probably because here in the east, we see so many thunderstorms losing their intensity as they approach our area in the evening, as the sun's energy is removed, thus eliminating some of the lift to produce the higher cloud heights. Sort of seems counter intuitive. Not to say we don't see severe thunderstorms at night in the summertime...
  21. I would first like to train the birds not to crap on my car after eating berries...
  22. Did you see the hail accumulation? It was half a foot deep?
  23. They first said that there were no natural enemies, but I think I heard after the fact that indeed they did have new natural enemies here in the US.
  24. With the nature of tornadoes, I don't think we can save many more lives. If you warn someone of it coming, and it never materializes, people become numb to the warnings. And in hurricanes, many people have to be pulled out of their homes to get them out. The whole idea of blanket cutbacks is to see what is really needed and to find ways to become more efficient. Everyone will rationalize that their department, their specific area is the most important. The only way to find out what is most essential is to make cuts across the board and restore the areas that become obvious at a later date (hopefully sooner than later). Also, many of the proposed cuts do not occur, or are negotiated down. The government is too big to be able to surgically remove what is true waste. Pharmaceutical companies are a good example. There used to be people going to work at was once called "country club" environments, read a newspaper, and fall asleep.
  25. Isn't the priority of a major airport to move people? Why haven't they redirected or reduced cargo planes at Newark if there is such a problem there? It shouldn't matter if Fedex or UPS have major contracts. In a state of emergency as it seems Newark Airport is in, shouldn't the FAA step in and at least try to relieve some of the air traffic? Oh boo hoo, we get our packages a day or two later because Fedex flights are redirected to JFK, LaGuardia or Philly...
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