btw … it’s gotten so bad down in the City they cancelled the Mets game last night.
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The smoke is leaving 
I can see the actual sky out there today. 
The Albany skyline is once again visible too 
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When the smoke was at its worst, was the sky orange, like in the photos I’ve seen of NYC? I hope the fires die down in Canada. I really hate seeing people losing homes and property.
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The first day it was orangish by the evening … then it went a lighter yellow. Nothing like what I’m seeing in pics from the City and NJ. It’s like they have a heavy sepia filter. I really hope folks aren’t enhancing the images … it’s bad enough without amping them up.
(I’m too suspicious for my own good sometimes) 
After the initial orange/yellow hue it looked like really bad fog for the most part.
Having some massive flooding out in the western part of my state from last night’s rain.
We had a LOT of rain at the house, but nothing like what the small city of Leominster got. They say 4 to 9" of rain fell in 5 hours there.
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Glad your place is ok PD. It’s miserable everywhere it seems. I just had to turn the AC back on. I can’t breath with this humidity. It’s killin’ me. 
We have had rain off and on and some BAD thunderstorms but no flooding like what you are going through.
Then my brother in law was in a bit of a panic and had a wait a few days to find out about his family in Morocco. They were luckily far enough from the earthquake that happened Friday. So, luckily they weren’t affected. But, no one could communicate in or out for a bit. 1000’s have died and 1000’s more are injured.
Then today I see Libya had flooding from “Daniel” It caused torrential rain and it burst two dams. 1000’s are dead and around 10,000 are missing.
I had to stop reading the news 
Yeah, everything in context I guess. Glad your family is safe.
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We just got our first 0.5in in over 2 months yesterday. I haven’t had to mow since July.
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Low 90s for a week up until yesterday, today high 50s and some welcome rain. I remember when that kind of temperature swing was newsworthy. 
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We’ve been pretty normal. August was hot and humid. September is trending towards warm days with drier air and cool fall evenings.
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Our next-door neighbors had a house in Maui where they spent about half their time. It burned to the ground in the recent fire. It’s a little difficult to feel too sorry for people with second homes in Maui, but still a tragedy for everyone.
Floods, droughts, wildfires, tornados, earthquakes, hurricanes, melting polar ice caps, wars, and worldwide pandemics — what more could go wrong?
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To be fair, climate scientists have been predicting this would happen (well maybe not the pandemic bit) for the last 20 or 30 years, if we didn’t change our ways. We can’t be too surprised now, when it’s happening exactly the way they predicted. And yet, some people still deny climate change as propaganda.
One could even go as far as to suggest that the pandemic is not a huge surprise, given the way greed trumps all in every facet of business. Avian flu passing to humans, increases in allergies that didn’t even exist 20 years ago. Poisoned seas, fish with micro-plastics inside them. The list goes on. It’s all symptomatic, with one uncomfortable root cause.
No, none of this is a surprise.
We’ve all become so desensitised that we just shrug our shoulders and carry on – most because they have been sold enough debt that they can’t actually afford to be too concerned.
Sorry to go quite so off-topic here, but the atrocious weather events we are seeing are symptoms. We will need to make some uncomfortable seismic changes in the next few years if we are going to avoid more actual seismic changes. When entire neighbourhoods are being washed out to sea, how much more warning do we need?
And a cheery morning to one and all!
The sun has come out this morning after three days of rain and lower than seasonal temperatures. Last week, we had an unseasonal heatwave. Still, at least it’s a nice sunny morning today!
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We have a possible hurricane blowing in this Saturday. At least all the sky-is-falling weathercasters are hoping so, to justify their existence maybe.
As my boss used to say, the weather is the weather. We had this much rain maybe a decade ago. They build infrastructure very poorly now and it can’t handle it. The whole thing with the city of Leominster was that new construction failed and water management here has always been really dumb (like storm drains on the crown of the highway I take every morning to work. Water pools in the fast lane in a normal rainstorm.)
I dunno.
I’m so tired of hearing all of it. It’s been over 60 years for me of Global Warming, Global Cooling, Climate Change, 900 million Cow farts (how about 8 billiion people farts?) Every little thing now is blamed on climate change when a lot of other factors are involved as well. They should teach more science in schools these days.
And until you get China and India, et al on board and stop trading ‘carbon points’ for money, and figure out how to supply enough electricity to keep the heat and AC on, let alone charging cars (just ask California about that) don’t talk to me about getting rid of my tiny boat motor and lawn tractor and snowblower (yeah, I’m part of the problem, I guess, but I can’t afford my electric bill now. )
/rant
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Batten down the hatches and be safe 
Sixth day of October and it was 72f here yesterday, sitting outside last night in t-shirt and shorts. The forecast is for it to get warmer over the weekend.
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It’s October and this means halloween and thanksgiving are really close and that’s the only think I love. To be honest, I’m not a fan of autumn and the switch from hot to cold.
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We have again broken records here for high temps. It’s been right around 86 for the past few days… with high humidity. Good thing we didn’t put the AC’s away
Today though it seems to be stepping back into normal. It’s been cooler and raining all day. Hard to believe it was mid 80s yesterday and mid 60s today.
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Last week it was in the middle 80’s, Saturday and Sunday it’s been in the middle 50s…
But this is typical weather for fall in Michigan.
Goodbye, summer…
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My former boss used to say, “The weather is the weather. Not a lot you can do about it.”
I’m certainly glad for the cooler nights.
Only now I’m less likely to drive through a snowstorm to get to work.
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I was on the phone with my friend in Dallas, Texas, yesterday. and found out it was cooler there than Toronto, Ontario.
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