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83 yesterday. Almost all of the rain missed us to the south.

I'd imagine a ton of record high minima were broken last night.

The cities did not just appear when the climate change acceleration took place. They were there, with the same UHI contribution, over the last century. (UHI now) - ( UHI back then) = the d(UHI) factor. Doing that arithmetic results a positive number; in other words, a net gain from the UHI factor. The UHI contribution is responding to the atmosphere's ability to store more thermal energy than it had prior to the Industrial Revolution ... just like the ambient planet is. It just so happens to be that the environmental prompt of the urban setting is so conducive to heating, it responds faster than the open terrain of rural regions. But his ability to respond quicker is not an offset argument to CC - it's ironically more of a metaphoric thermometer that exposes more heat quotient available to the UHIs. Not sure what's motivating your question, but it's air apparent ( pun hopefully annoying ...) that people that attempt to ply the argument of exaggerated heat, have less learned and/or native understanding that the science is simply more right, whereas the less educated/intelligentsia are more wrong. Op Ed beyond this point: Which is why I blame the science community for a lot the sociological stigma to climate change was never presented the way it should have been - not the right way. In stead of breaking press to the media (for ex.) this should have been handled in the Pentagon as both a national and global security risk. Top down corruption may also have blocked this, granted, but just living through the last 40 years of zeitgeist, one does not get the feeling this approach was really taken. Instead, it was a PR failure to attack the custom of that cultural heritage - which was entirely built by the energy provided by fossil fuels...etc..etc. That undoubtedly felt like something else in world where media has degraded its credibility spanning that same time. This is like ... intuitively automatic at this point. "Media" has become a veritable ongoing movie, thematically a comedy over a backdrop of dystopian colors. And now with AI obfuscating truth and fiction, what trust that remains... Good luck with Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet failures and ocean catastrophic rises now. The biggest failure of the scientific ambit's PR tactic was not the the climate is changing. The problem isn't global warming. It's not. Yeah...the world has been warmer, and colder, over geologic history. The problem is lack of understanding that the human species, like every species on the planet, in inextricably dependent on the health and vitality of the whole system ecology of the planet. That's always been the failure. Humanity has created this industrial bubble, within which we are very successful at creating surpluses, and options in the ongoing survival motif. Over successive generations...this has become entitled. And part of sense of abstract entitlement is an utterly suspended disbelief that these advantages are immutable - thus ... "we'll be fine". We won't be. ...unless we win the technological race against our own demise... Made some tech will be invented that restores the system for us, bringing a vitality back... some sci fi-bilator This is an illusion in the bubble. We are still alive because of the immeasurable vastness of species interaction in the Gaia-life, the ecology of the whole planet. And that ecology is fragile. Life evolved within certain tolerance bandwidths, one of which is the exceptionally complex way in which temperature effects environments. When the temperature changes at a faster rate than the adaptation rate of the ecology's constituent codependencies, stressing has already begins. Failure is imminent. Diasporas trigger problem when species flee to new, unfamiliar realms to survive. Enter the Gaia bible ... culminating in extinctions. Remove enough keystone species from the entire ecological scaffolding of the world, and the world crumbles. The mass extinction events in Earth's history were linked to sudden disruptions in the environmental status quo.

Decent forecast. Most of the sub will be dodging shwrs/stms through the weekend. Enjoy your 4th festivities ev1

Or if you are a Mortal Kombat fan... TOASTY!

91 at 9am is rarified air.

Tried to weed. The ground is concrete. I guess that’s what .2” rain in 11 weeks gets you.

As of July 2nd per the DMI data, the mean Arctic temperature based on 80N+ has still not quite reached freezing although it was only barely below it yesterday. Going back to 1958, the latest day it first hit freezing before 2026 was way back on June 20th (2013)! Daily Mean Arctic temp. in degrees Kelvin: freezing is at 273.15 (July 2nd was 0.1C below freezing): 0260618 169 272.561676 20260619 170 272.634399 20260620 171 272.647522 20260621 172 272.469360 20260622 173 272.153870 20260623 174 271.679565 20260624 175 271.918213 20260625 176 272.421326 20260626 177 272.655334 20260627 178 272.803802 20260628 179 272.680786 20260629 180 272.732056 20260630 181 272.903717 20260701 182 272.963715 20260702 183 273.045624 https://download.dmi.dk/pub/plus80N_temperatureindex/meanT2026_running.txt

Looks like both PIT and AGC failed to get below 80°. The 12z sounding at PIT is slightly more capped than yesterday, therefore you may see a few sites make a run into the upper 90s if clouds or storms hold off.

Off to the races! .

July 3 1947: Tornadoes hit Marshall and Polk Counties. For Friday, July 3, 2026 1966 - The northeastern U.S. was in the midst of a sweltering heat wave. The temperature at Philadelphia reached 104 degrees. Afternoon highs of 102 degrees at Hartford CT, 105 degrees at Allentown PA, and 107 degrees at LaGuardia Airport in New York City established all-time records for those two locations. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Lightning struck and killed three men playing golf on a course near Kingsport TN. The three men had sought shelter from the rain under a tall tree on a small hill. Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain in New Jersey, with 5.2 inches reported at Trenton State College. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - Thunderstorms around Fort Worth, TX, produced wind gusts to 76 mph at Burleson, along with two inches of rain in thirty minutes. The record low of 46 degrees at Youngstown OH was their sixth in a row. (The National Weather Summary)(Storm Data) 1989 - Showers and thunderstorms produced locally heavy rain in the eastern U.S. Bowling Green, KY, was soaked with 4.99 inches of rain during the morning hours, and up to ten inches of rain deluged Oconee County SC. The temperature at Alamosa, CO, soared to a record warm reading of 91 degrees, following a record low of 35 degrees the previous day. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) Observances: 3 Fri National Stay Out of the Sun Day 3 Fri National Compliment Your Mirror Day 3 Fri St Thomas Day 3 Fri Air Conditioning Appreciation Day 3 Fri American Redneck Day 3 Fri Disobedience Day 3 Fri International Drop a Rock Day 3 Fri National Eat Your Beans Day 3 Fri National Fried Clam Day 3 Fri National Independent Beer Run Day 3 Fri StartTheConversation Day 3 Fri V.I. Emancipation Day 3 Fri International Plastic Bag Free Day 3 Fri National Chocolate Wafer Day

Tickling 90F already.

Literal once in a lifetime event. This thing will likely never come east again.

That’s so brutal in an urban setting. Man, if you don’t have A/C…

Mins. The mornings we dream of.

Already disgusting outside 92

87/75

0.06" of rain yesterday as a stm passed by during the evening. Out of the 3 days of warmer wx, yesterday was the warmest with temps in the upper 80's n dews around 70 in town. Point did ok with that cast, but bombed the other 2 days. Looks like 70's with rain chances today thru the weekend.

9AM Round up New Brnswck: 92 JFK: 92 EWR: 91 TEB: 89 LGA: 89 NYC: 88 TTN: 88

Per this, the lowest at NYC as of 8AM today was 84: https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html

They have 84 as the min.

89 here at 9am

i thought I saw KNYC tied the record high low at 84, but the hourly obs say 84.9. Did we tie or break it?

At C Park, the lowest so far today is 84. IF that were to hold up through 11:59PM, it would tie the all time highest low there on record!