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Nice big one, grade A firewood.

Yep and 2010 comes really close and rounds up to 100 since it's 99.5 I'm convinced JFK exceeded 100 in both 1966 and 2010 because they had 3 days of 100+ both times (three in a row in the first one and three days out of four in the second one.)

I will check out JFK. The thresholds differ from those at Central Park.

1953 and 1955 are absolutely wild because they each had two such periods. Don the second period in 1953 could be extended into early September when it peaked at 102.....

Exactly what I'm doing minus the swim, got my puppy laying next to me, nice night out.

1966 is the only one where the average was over 100. But it's not fair to have the whole period average over a certain number, basically if there are 5 days over 90 all 5 days qualify but if two out of those 5 days the average was 90 and the other three days it was 106, it would still not average over 100 over the 5 day period, despite those three days being absolutely epic heat. Yet if the 90 degree days were only 89 degrees they wouldn't be counted as part of the period and the average would shoot up despite technically being a cooler stretch.

Starting to see the signs summer is not endless.

Don, do 1966 and 2010 meet the criteria at JFK? Do any of those other years? I know JFK had 3 days out of 4 in 2010 at 100 or above and in 1966 they had three straight days of 100+?

The value is based on percentile ranking.

which one would stand out if 100 was the criteria, 1993? oh nevermind I thought one of the criteria was three straight days above that number if going by average high it's definitely 1966. you could argue that 2010 would also meet the criteria since 99.5 rounds up to 100

Then there would have only been one event that qualified as per Don's chart. 100 is too high for our area.

1977 and 1993 really stand out in this list

I think someone hits 105

why did they pick such a weird number-- 97? 100 should be the number.

Will we get an old fashioned heat wave with 90+ temps that lasts at least 5 days?

I believe JFK had a maximum-minimum thermometer, so the high should be accurate even if it occurred between hours.

I'll take it over the sauna that we currently have. 98/42 at 5 PM MT IMBY. 98/20 at Buckley AFB nearby...6% RH will dry you out in a hurry.

Despite the expected extreme heat, it is possible that New York City's Central Park will fall short of the criteria needed to qualify as an extreme heat event (Clarke et al., 2014 Methodology). To get there, there would need to be at least 3 97° highs, every high during the period would need to be 90° or above, and the average high during the period would need to be 97° or above. Below is a list of such events:

The always overheated GEMLAM has high heat for us Tuesday but the highest is actually in southern NJ. This is 2PM Tuesday:

This sounds so easy to do that it makes me think there's a reason they don't do it. Maybe they're counting on the canopy to hide the equipment from vandals. I don't know why they don't surround it with a barbed wire electrified fence.

Was that the winter where JFK got two 6 inch events within 10 days of each other? and NYC's largest event was 4 inches lol

Just cut back the canopy that towers around the station.

Perhaps that equipment should be moved downtown. Park temperatures are not what New York City residents typically experience.

The wind really picked up out there

On June 26, 1952 as I showed previously, JFK reached 99 on a SSW wind and when the wind switched to WSW it was at 99 for two more hours. It's possible 100 was reached in between hours on that day there but not recorded. I think it shows that JFK can reach 100 there in June even on an onshore wind in June.