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The high was 92 here around 1 PM and then the sea breeze came in and now down to 87 even though it's mostly sunny.

dry ground and an offshore flow is great for days like this

Thanks Tony, this is truly epic BBQ weather!! Even some natural fireworks at night pre July 4th!!

wow my 102 guess for June 24 was correct.... I just saw your very excellent post, Don. I've always wondered if we could do temperature corrections like this. I'm guessing Central Park should have reached 90 yesterday too? It just hit 91 here Don, I'm guessing Central Park is a bit behind again today?

It just hit 91 here Don, I'm guessing Central Park is a bit behind again today?

You posted the records from all my favorite heatwaves Chris-- THANK YOU!!! The only ones you left out were July 1983, August 1983, September 1983 (three from that historic summer lol), July 1993, July 1999, July 2010 and July 2011. More recent but a fair comparison my friend. By the way no way no how Central Park did not hit 100 degrees for their earliest triple digit reading last week. Based on the fact that Central Park is usually hotter than LGA when on a NW wind (or should be), I'd estimate they should have been 102 on that day (the same as JFK) and should have also hit 102 on the day after (the same as JFK again). Something is really vexing me though. Our local TV mets are proclaiming the Central Park temperatures to be valid and even claiming verification based on them. WABC's prediction for 6/24/2025 was 98 degrees and when the Central Park high was 99 they proclaimed they were correct in that New York City would be close but not hit 100 degrees. Likewise when Central Park only hit 89 yesterday they said they were correct again (their prediction was 88 degrees) when they said New York City would be close but not hit 90. They treated LGA and JFK like outlier suburban stations (JFK is too far south that's why it's hotter, LGA is north of us and likely influenced by hotter inland air from the lower hudson valley is what they said.)

I was hoping the dry conditions would kill off the lanternflies =\ Usually the drier it is the less pests/bugs we have.

2010: The hottest June on Record! The Richmond International Airport reported the mean temperature for June was 81.1 °F which was a new 113 year record. This breaks the old record of 79.2 °F set in 1943 and was a +8.7 °F departure from average. June had 8 new daily temperature records and all were for heat. Both June 27th and 28th had a maximum temperature 102 °F. Richmond has never had back to back 102 °F days before in June. Only three June days have been hotter: (June 30, 1937 103 °F) (June 19, 1944 103 °F) (June 26, 1952 104 °F ) June 2010 also had 19 days of 90 °F or higher temperatures the record was 20 in 1943. June had only 0.82 inches rainfall making it the second driest in 113 years only 1980 was drier with only 0.38 inches and with the heat made severe drought conditions. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC)2010: Both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. recorded their hottest Junes, with the thermometer in Philadelphia averaging 5.9°F above normal for the month. Miami, Florida notched not just its hottest June, but its hottest month on record.(Ref. Weatherwise U.S. Weather Highlights of 2010 page 8 ) Summer 2010 was to summer what 1995-96 was to winter!!

the haze and breathing problems are also a product of car fuel exhaust (NO2 air pollution), which lowers life expectancy by 2 years or so and increases asthma rates and genetic mutations.

Didn't a city or town get completely burned down in that intense heat?

Yes MY ONLY 30 INCH SNOWSTORM EVER AND PROBABLY WON'T SEE ANOTHER ONE. I can't even think of another snowstorm that could possible dump 30 inches in a straight line from Allentown to Oceanside lol. The only thing that was remotely similar to that was February 1983 (both in very strong el ninos) that dumped 26 inches in Allentown and 22 inches at JFK. That 30 inches on 3 inches of liquid was juiced by CC extra moisture.

I really wish there was a way to adjust the numbers like they did for the January 2016 snowstorm. Remember when they did that? It was originally slightly behind January 2006 and then adjusted upward later. There is a scientific way of doing this using nearby stations.

It's hard to believe Central Park being 5 degrees cooler than me but here we are. I'll also note that even when we went completely overcast here for an hour I was still 3 degrees hotter than Central Park's highest temperature of the day!

That 99 last week was extremely significant. Central Park lost out on its earliest 100 ever recorded there.

So was that 99 last week. To go along with the 99 in July 2013 which also should have been 100+.