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Timing of the volcano has an impact as well. The effects of it usually have a lag, and Pinatubo happend in June 1991, so the summer of 1992 would have been one year after. Also, the effects may have lingered into the following the winter, with the major snowstorm in March 1993.

No, here on Long Island right now.

It reminded me of when I was in Barcelona, the same kind of heat. Or what we had in 2010 lol.

Are you in PA?

did you see the northern lights from Lynbrook?

I'm in Florida at the moment so not in the know but maybe they're short staffed?

Not very hot, but more like warm to very warm. Maybe 90 on Thursday the other days will be low to mid 80s.

The interesting thing is, I see clear blue skies to my north and east and west and a yellowish haze to my south.

If Dubai can air condition the sand on their beaches than we can artificially heat up our near coastal waters beginning in May. It would be a boon to the beach business.

artificially heating up the oceans beginning in May is necessary.

This is why I can't wait for SST to heat up to 70+

wow, thats crazy. Glad though for you. A girl i coached in softball, her and her husband had a tree split their shed completely in half

Today Normal's EWR: 77 / 59 ; NYC: 76 / 60. Lows EWR 50 / NYC 53 with highs in the 74 - 77 range today puts daily departures in the -3 to -6 range. Looks like 80s through Sunday then the Ridge in the west and EC on the fringes of the ridge trough setting up into the GL/MW. It would be brief day or so of any heat getting into the area during the 6/9 - 6/15 period only but does appear to be overall above normal.

to be fair, I think it's more likely to get such a departure from average in the summer if you have a renegade closed off low and onshore flow with rain. Average temperatures mute the extremes, so they don't really show us extreme highs or extreme lows. As an example July 1993 which had our most extensive and extreme heatwave of my adult lifetime (July 1977 had an even more extreme one but I was only 3 years old lol), had a day with a high of 66 and a low of 62 on the 2nd, because of a big rainstorm with onshore flow and high winds. A week later the historic heatwave started.

Up to 68 clear skies - some smoke moving through CPA

66 and mostly sunny. Wouldn't mind running off a few more copies of today .

Hold on a sec Chris. You know I'm 100% with you regarding climate change and how it has affected global weather patterns. But on the local scale it's not as clear cut as that. Specifically with regards to using old analogs do you remember when all the mild predictions came out for 2010-11 as late as the middle of December? Just because it was a strong la nina? And then when we had unrelenting cold and snow we started looking at old analogs from the 1910s to find strong la ninas that were as cold and snowy as 2010-11 was?

I found something really interesting about JFK's heat record. JFK has hit 100+ 19 times (between 100-104) including two streaks of 3 days of 100+ JFK has also hit 99 19 times lol..... so 38 times of 99+

I thought it was because volcanoes like Pinatubo have more of an influence over the summer than the winter? It had a big impact in summer 1992.

Yes, the early 2010s streak was extreme but shortlived. It was 2010-2013 while the era from the 1930s through the 1950s started in 1932 (and what a warm winter 1931-32 was!) and lasted until 1966. We had a big drought in the 60s that actually extended it through that decade too.

Unfortunately the storm peaked at the worst possible time during the day.

Hello summer thread. I finished May with 9.7" of rainfall, good for the 4th wettest month I've ever recorded. Also tied my record for most days in a month with measurable precip, at 21. Looks like MDT actually ended up two-tenths of a degree below average for May. Bradford hit 28 last night, only three off the national low of 25. Smoke should make for some pretty skies but shouldn't affect our surface air quality, as it looks to stay mostly aloft.

Today was the 21st day on record with a low temperature at or below 40F in the official Pittsburgh area threaded record. There have only been 15 colder June nights (about once a decade).

Ten day has a lowest high of 71. You know, for June, I'll take it. I just need the nights to be a bit warmer so the pools/lakes warm up but to not see 50s for daytime highs is nice.

Heh... despite my conservative tone this morning - which I still suspect is warranted - the NAM arrives with a 90 F at least implicated in the FOUS grid 54000492730 -2403 212012 71261912 I don't expect anyone to know what these numerics are supposed mean - mainly because I've written, with pain staking detail, what those definitions are at least 20 times ( ). Anyway, that profile for 18z on Wednesday would 89 to 91 over down town streets and parking lots...ranging to 82 or 84 where the hill people down play heat. sarcasm aside ...I'm not sure the NAM physics has smoke contamination built in ? maybe Brian or someone knows.