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29.5 degrees here this morning.

Not sure if this was mentioned but looking at snow totals, it looks like upstate Ct. and Massachusetts had a lot of places with 4-6 inches of snow.

Even though Nassau County is not included in the NWS freeze warning area, it looks pretty likely that many parts of Nassau will have freezing temperatures tonight. Currently 41.8 here.

43 degrees here with rain and wind. 2 inches of rain since Wednesday.

1.27 inches of rain here today, winds gusting to 26mph.

Some sun here today, 70 degrees.

68 degrees here, overcast all day.

38.3 here this morning.

1.60 inches of rain here. Low temperature last night 42°

Raining hard here again, .19 so far today.

1.71 inches of rain here between yesterday and today.

42 degree low here this morning.

It certainly looks like upstate areas had quite a day with storms and wind. Not much in my area, some light rain and only breezy conditions.

So far all the wind has been upstate. Just breezy here so far and really rather quiet right now. Did get more rain than I expected with .08 of an inch. I was not expecting much at all.

.72 inch of rain here.

76 degrees the high here today.

79 for a high here, felt good.

That is very possible and climate change is one reason why. All I am saying is the best way we can prevent them now, is thru forest management and somehow getting people to be more careful. Just like folks moving to coastal areas and therefore hurricane damage and deaths go up from years ago. Now so many more folks are living in the areas out west that were once not being occupied and therefore much more damage and death, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, we still have to keep doing what we can to stop polluting our waters, land and atmosphere. I am an optimist on that, I think our energy pollutants of today will become mostly obsolete in the not so distant future as batteries, solar, wind etc. become more widespread.

The problem is to stop climate change immediately, we will have to completely change our life style and most people are not willing. Even if the climate was not changing, if 90% of the fires are started by people, you will still have plenty of devastating fires.

There is no doubt we have to address climate change but unfortunately that takes years. It is a fact that almost 90% of these fires are started by people. So if you really want to make headroads in stopping these fires, people simply have to be more careful or make sure the area you live in is not so fire prone by taking whatever actions have to be taken thru managing the forests. The other solution is keep the population down in areas that burn easily.

Every year these fires cause such devastation. There is little doubt that climate change has helped fuel the fires but the real problem is people. Some 80 to 90 per cent of these fires are started by people, the rest by lightning. Maybe we need more education on fire prevention, (I remember always seeing the "smoky the bear" commercials), and better forest management, now that so many more folks live in these fire prone areas.

The Atlantic, outside of sub tropical storm Teddy moving away, is free of any tropical systems. I believe the U.S. mainland has had 4 hurricanes this season and 1 of them was a major. The season is now on the decline (but certainly not over) as we are now approaching cooler weather. I think wind shear really kept a lid on a lot of storms this season.

47 degrees this morning, fifth morning in a row in the 40s

Was at Jones Beach at high tide this morning, a lot of over wash. In spots it was going under the boardwalk and inundating the tennis court area and also where they have the bands play.

41 degree low here this morning.