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Records: Highs: EWR: 101 (2001) NYC: 99 (2001) LGA: 98 (2001) JFK: 99 (2001) Lows: EWR: 56 (1989) NYC: 54 (1903) LGA: 59 (1989) JFK: 58 (1989) Historical: 1874: Swarms of Rocky Mountain locust invaded Denver, Colorado. Millions were seen cruising through the air. The insects were picked up by a thunderstorm gust front and carried into the city. The grasshoppers ravaged crops in surrounding counties for the last month. 1878 - The temperature at Denver, CO, soars to an all-time record high of 105 degrees. (The Weather Channel) 1881 - A cloudburst and flash flood occurred at Central Springs, CO, and Idaho Springs, CO. (David Ludlum) 1882 - An August snowstorm was reported by a ship on Lake Michigan. A thick cloud reportedly burst on the decks covering them with snow and slush six inches deep. Snow showers were observed at shore points that day. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) 1924: Hancock, Minnesota: A lightning bolt during a dry thunderstorm kills 47 cattle at a local farm. The livestock had crowded together under the branches of a large spreading willow tree when the bolt struck the tree. Bodily contact seems to have provided the means of conveying the charge among the animals. (Ref. WxDoctor) 1928: A hurricane moved in from the Bahamas and made landfall near Stuart, FL. Damage was heaviest from south Brevard to St. Lucie Counties. Houses were unroofed and citrus trees and large oaks uprooted. Coastal highways were flooded and many bridges were undermined. Two people died. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1939: A tornado outbreak across central and southern Lower Michigan resulted in two deaths and about 100 injuries. A violent tornado moved across the southeast part of Kalamazoo, MI destroying dozens of homes and killing two people. More homes were destroyed and six people were injured in northern Kent County, northeast of Cedar Springs. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1967: Las Vegas, NV was hit by two storms which bore in from the south and covered a 50-square-mile area. Damage was estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Showboat Hotel on Boulder Highway was forced to close its casino, restaurant, and showroom when muddy floodwaters invaded through the kitchen doors, passed clearly through the large building and out the front doors. At Caesars Palace on the Strip, a casino boss said the water was deep enough in the front of the hotel to "swim in". Over 10 inches of rain fell during a two week period to cause the Great Fairbanks Flood in Alaska. $100 million dollars in damage resulted. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1969: Severe thunderstorms moved north central South Dakota to the southeast sections of the state. Golf ball size hail was reported just west of Mobridge while Wessington Springs had tennis ball sized hail. Two people were injured in Sioux Falls when strong thunderstorm winds blew in a plate glass window at a drug store. Near Mitchell a barn was devastated so badly by a tornado it appeared as if it had exploded. Portions of the building could not be found and the same tornado carried a steel granary a half mile. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1972: An unusual mid-summer tornado struck near the town of Byers, Texas, in Clay County. Damage was limited to barns and storage sheds on several farms east of Byers. The tornado exhibited an unusual movement, from southeast to northwest. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1980: Dangerous Hurricane Allen briefly weakened to a Category 4 storm as it skirted the Yucatan Peninsula. Already a Category 5 twice during its life cycle, Allen would briefly regain Category 5 intensity for a record third time on the 9th as it headed for the Texas coast. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1983 - The temperature at Big Horn Basin, WY, reached 115 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Thunderstorm rains in eastern Nebraska sent the Wahoo River and Ithica River above flood stage. Thunderstorm rains in western Iowa sent the Nishnabotna River over flood stage. Up to seven inches of rain deluged the Council Bluffs area Friday evening and Saturday morning. Thunderstorms produced 4.4 inches of rain in three hours Friday evening, along with golf ball size hail. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a slow moving cold front produced severe weather from central Kansas to southern Wisconsin late in the day. Thunderstorms in Iowa produced hail three inches in diameter at Vinton, and produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Donohue and near Mount Pleasant. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - A total of ninety-nine cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Alpena MI with a reading of 40 degrees. Mount Mitchell NC was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 35 degrees. Early evening thunderstorms around Las Vegas NV produced wind gusts to 116 mph. The high winds damaged or destroyed about eighty- two aircraft at Henderson Sky Harbor Airport and McCarran International Airport, causing fourteen million dollars damage. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

75 / DP: 74 some clouds. Hot/humid with storms South Florida pattern continues day 3 of the heatwave for many some scattered storms later now nearly as widespread as Friday. Overall theme continues to Tuesday which for some will make a 6 days heatwave before cold front come through later wed/thu. Period of drier / near normal between 8/14 - 8/17 before moderating back to / above normal and the next push for a heat 8/19 and beyond. 8/8 - 8/11 : Hot / Humid daily storm chances - heatwave 8/12 8/13 : front cooler 8/14 - 8/17 : near - below normal much drier 8/19 - beyond : overall warmer next chance at some heat (90+)

0.76” last evening 1.96” last 3 days

That was the 4th or 5th big storm that hit Union/ Sturbridge area this summer

July OHC of +2.96 set a new record high back to 1979 breaking old record of +2.56 (Oct 1997)!

Maybe today is the day

Pardon my ignorance: Is the magnitude of an El Nino determined by the absolute extent and temp or is it tied to the relative temp relative to the waters beyond the zone of warmth?

The same areas have been getting it all summer. That Glen Burnie area and up along the bay to the NE gets nailed every time there's a chance for storms. The other hot spot is Frederick. My area in central AA country has had mostly scraps. It's been a pretty green summer imby.

The lawn at Pit2 is a burned out disaster. Except for the patch of crabgrass that took root underneath where my boat was until Memorial Day. That is green and flourishing.

As @wxmeddler noted the other day, the real tragedy is KMTN rain gauge failing.

Late Tuesday looks like some action?

The White Marsh CoCoRaHs station has reported 7.87 inches of rain in the past 10 days. Eastern Baltimore County has been getting it pretty steady with this run of storms.

I realize that you are joking but, you could make it a moveable section for that purpose.

It's incredible how many idiots do that like they are hauling big load on a tractor trailer. Idiots.

Min 68.8° A very safe 0.00” here

Picked up 1.35" rainfall from yesterday's T-Storm. Total over the last 7 days 4.34". Since 6/1/26: 18.84" Since 7/1/26: 13.33"

Yeah. Was out on Pt Judith all week at my sister's beach house. Yesterday was the only day it got above 80. I set this station at my sisters a few years ago. Didn't there used to be a coop station or something out on PT Judith back in the day? Probably one of coolest non island spots in New England. Last above 80 reading was July 15th. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KRINARRA66

Um holy crap guys. Carrying my gauge in this morning I quickly realized that I way under estimated how much I got. After meticulously measuring it all out, the total came to 7.52”! I was truly in the heart of the most intense action and believe this to be the highest total in the state yesterday. I’ve not yet found anything on NWS, WU, or Cocorahs even approaching this amount. Please let me know if you find any totals this high. Wow, what a day!

You have to realize that this forum goes well beyond IMBY type posts. In order to understand the local IMBY weather patterns, you have to see the bigger picture. One of the key reasons our area wasn’t able to experience a repeat of 1995-1996 this past winter was the overpowering nature of the ridges and warmth to our West. So the cold and upper trough wasn’t strong enough to reproduce the historic outcome of 1995-1996. That warmth came east in March preventing the heavy March and April 1996 snows from repeating. Our weather patterns have greatly shifted warmer since the 2015-2016 super El Niño. So the areas where the strongest 500mb ridges have set up produced these +10 extremes which weren’t forecast ahead of time. There has never been an 11 year period since 1895 with 17 months this extreme. You can find a scattering of isolated cases back over time. Plus we are doing it with the warmest 30 year climate normals in record making it even more impressive.

70 degrees this morning, light rain showers. Picked .40” of rain overnight, will have to go out and check my manual rain gauge later on.

The actual tornado was in Brooklyn. But since the rotation remained so strong on radar into SW Nassau, the NWS maintained the tornado warmings out of an abundance of caution. I was glad there was no tornado when it got to Long Beach. But it was really cool to see the swirl in the clouds directly overhead when the weakened supercell moved over my area. September 1998 was the strongest tornado near the South Shore in my time living there. The Labor Day Derecho caused the sky to go dark between 2-3 in the afternoon. Then I had my only .75 hail and severe gusts from a single storm on the South Shore. The actual tornado was in Lynbrook and the damage path was clearly visible near the neighborhood close to Sunrise Highway.