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being wetter and onshore flow are directly connected right? so the more onshore flow you have the wetter it will be. I still maintain those micronets are overly cooked, there couldn't have been any 97.5 right near JFK or anywhere else in our area. I can accept 91-93 last Thursday but anything higher than that seems overly hot.

it's fun to pick a random august from the before times and see stretches of lows in the 50s

It’s been all about wind direction along with increasing rainfall and not traffic congestion. The strongest heat during the 2020s summers have been west of the sea breeze front in NJ. Too wet with plenty of onshore flow for the 2010 and 2011 record heat to be rivaled east of the Hudson. Notice how several spots in NJ nearly tied 2010 for 90° days as recently as 2022. One spot actually eclipsed the 2010 record for 90 days in 2022. Even Newark has had sea breeze influence compared to Highstown which set the their all-time 90° day record in 2022 ahead of 2010. https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/auto/?_wait=no&q=74&network=NJCLIMATE&station=NJ3951&season=all&dir=above&var=high&threshold=90&year=1893&_r=t&dpi=100&_fmt=png

I'd like it to only rain at night if possible lol My flowers are not in good shape sunshine during the day and rain at night!

Three months? That's crazy. We definitely need a drying out period right now, but we also don't want to go into another drought during the summer. How about a happy medium? Those of us with gardens care about getting enough rain.

Yeah we were like that yesterday. Had to go over the mountains here in Frederick to Middletown. The sight of the smoke in the valley was present: Mind you today we are in England with this spittle cloud cover and musty temps.

I thought 1998 had a lot of rain because it was a super el nino, 2002 was the really dry/hot year, check it out.

I think there was a big drought in 1998 that lasted July and August and doesn't seem to have spiked

No I turned on my space heater in my bedroom as late as last night and early this morning I also use it to dry out the air when it's rainy outside. air conditioning costs are much less than heating costs anyhow (I only use window units here).

also if you look at big heat summers like 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2010 and 2011 you'll notice it wasn't as high in those specific years, so it makes me think it's more connected to rainfall rather than heat.

thats crazy but I have a theory, did you see how low it was in 2004? this dip happened when our summers and years in general became rainier. It was higher when our summers and years were drier.

Especially the weekends.

I think that's a law of nature, if you have such extreme heat there has to be a cool down in between to give the heat time to reload. With higher humidity you don't need that because the elevated mins create more warmth.

All it does is is rain Lee it's it's crazy

.66 inch of rain here in latest event

We also had cool downs interspersed, not just lower minimums.

Got an additional .15" from a pop-up around midnight. That brings my total to .65".

That's an exaggeration. Maybe since mid-May, but March until up to mid-May (outside of the Nor'easter on 4/11-12) was one of the warmer times of the year so far. We had 80+ the last 3 days of March. That stuff does not happen in a cool pattern! If we've been in a cool pattern since the last week of March, then 2025 would be on track to being the coldest year in a very long time, since the winter (January and February) wasn't that warm to begin with.

Rainfall .64" here last 48 hours. On the upside my lawn has never looked better.

Your heat has been off since early April lol Unless you sleep in a tent outdoors and you're referring to an electric heater

Hey we lived here back then, we didn't have AQI > 150 like we have now almost every other day back then.

hopefully this heat is just the appetizer with the main show coming in July.

No look at air quality data was a lot worse back then