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And maybe next weekend too. Perfect.

48.7°

1.67" looks to be my total.

80s this weekend. Thank God.

Down to 55F here in E CT, and 1.09” of much needed rain!!

i had mine on a few hours ago problem with portable heaters they tend to dry your throat out.

Who in this thread is denying climate change? Your argument here makes little sense to me. Properly sited sensors have reliable, correct high temps, and that's why there's scientific standards for the ones that are used for NOAA/NWS data. Low temps, on the other hand, vary more wildly based on location and that can't be fixed through better siting. But it does make sense that sensors that have a long period of record in a single location that has seen the least amount of changes around it are going to provide the most reliable temperature record.

I haven't seen anyone in this thread denying global warming or claiming warming is UHI-driven.

NYC high of 70F was not quite a record low max (68F 1990, 2000). Today (21st) won't break the record low max either, since it was 59F in 2007 (tied with Aug 31, 1911 as lowest of all maxima in August). Record low minima for 21st to 23rd are 53 (1922), 52 (1895) and 51 (1923). Highs associated with them are in the low 70s F and not record low maxima. This indicates they were all intrusions of fall-like cooler air from the northwest and not like 21st-22nd 2007 held down by cloud and northeast winds. (max on 22nd 2007 was also a record low 65F).

1991 28th and 2002 33rd in my list; bearing in mind there really isn't much differential from about 20th to 40th, and the older years get a boost of 2 F compared to anything recent. Without that boost, about six fall out of the top 20 and all these 20-30 ranked years move up that many ranks at least. I am somewhat conflicted about applying any urban heat correction, the positive is that it allows a better assessment of climate change from other sources, the negative is that people alive in those earlier years experienced actual temperatures shown in my tables and people nowadays 2 F warmer than shown. In between, like around the 1930s, the differential was closer to 1 F. Perhaps the annual average is 2 F but seasonal differences are not all exactly the same, and I should retool the comparisons based on seasonal ranges. Summer is probably the season I would reduce the boost, and winter I might increase it, leaving it as is for spring and autumn. That would likely move 1876 down a few rungs, as well as 1906, 1908 and 1870. Oddly, while urban heat island increase is supposed to give a larger increase in overnight minima, the years making it into the top ten are known mainly for warm nights back in the early phase of NYC's urbanization. These years may have resembled 2025 more than the really hot summers of recent decades (a steady dull warmth).

Surprised not to see 2002 and 1991 mentioned somewhere in the top ones. WX/PT

It’s a 3-4 month battle of cool vs warm. Every day matters in here. No days off from the fight.

Floydbuster, long time no see.

What’s that moving east to west over the Bay ?

You’re so old and…always drunk.

NWS had it hitting Florida as a major hurricane and it missed.

11 pm update is it's only moving north

7 named

Dorian got up to 185 MPH, Trump made his cone through Florida and it went out to sea. LOL.

0.52" here. Not bad. A much-needed watering for the vegetable garden.

Don's top ten summers 2010 1966 1993 1995 1999 1980 1988 1949 2011 1994 Their ranks in my table __ 2 __ 3 __ 11 ___ 24 __ 21 __ 14 __ 22 __ 06 __ 36 __ 30 LB favorites 1944 and 1983 finished 8 and 12. I'm not sure whether Don considered summers before 1949 in his top ten listing, or where in time his list begins, would be interesting to find out where some of my top ten (1876, 1906, 1908) finished in his list. But in general I think cool starts to June are the main determining factor in placing a given summer lower on my list, that part of summer rarely produces much of the heat content that Don's method was measuring; also, if September heat was included, none of that would affect my rankings. Even without Sep 1-3, 1953 ranked 29th. The four worst modern summers were 2009, 2000, 1992 and 1996.

1.45” here in E.Hartford. Triple my monthly total just about.

Who cares how warm or cool it is on a rainy day? I remember now why I don’t check this place out in the summer.

And there it goes flash flood warning.. hrrrr was right … 3-4” in 90 minutes in that zone with plenty more to come