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It hit 121 F in Lytton, British Columbia on June 29th, 2021. Prior to the 2021 heat wave the previous high temperature in Canada was 112 F. It is interesting to note that the extreme heat and drought that day caused Lytton to burn to the ground...literally. A wildfire developed and consumed the entire town including the weather station before it could record the daily high on the following day.

I think there was one more of us up there who posted but I cant find it.

The family is down in Philly for the Phillies doubleheader today. The refreshing dew points are slowly moving in this direction.

Maybe it’ll give us a nice moisture laden storm to add to that beautiful tropical feel by the second half of the season. Headlines will read dews higher and stickier, the likes of which we’ve never seen before..Stay inside for the tropics of Belize are heading to a neighborhood near you!

shear could be better but this is a good wind sounding

Alligators falling from the sky in thunderstorms ... I wonder how that would look in a METAR? KCHS __ 29/27 3125G38 TRW+ Alligators all quads

Agree...

trough/cold front moving through thu evenig focuses storms, rain showers north. The next 5 - 6 days look very dry /warm-hot (outside the 4th) . Next rain chances 7/8.

Yeah outside of JFK/NYC which is the area he's referring to (i think) . 2010 - 2024(5) summer years have featured heat / strong heat as much as 48, 49, 53, 63, 66, 80,83,88, 91,93, 99 etc.

He’s out enjoying all of your water

reached a muggy high of 88 today

Definitely going to see some flooding if this doesn’t start moving soon.

Kinda fascinating. Only cell in SNE and it’s just sitting there. Maybe on a seabreeze boundary?

I don't know, I think 103 degrees is pretty high...

That’s cranky.

Other than he should be looking at the wave frequency along the interface latitudes of the HC's termination into the westerlies, and not above the polar jet at this time of year ... , sure

Ha I saw that, how unlucky

A random cell is just training over me right now. So much for mowing the yard today, wtf.

89F

For those who are smarter than I, does the setup of the PDO make a difference? What I mean by this is, the current event seems to be driven more by the western Pacific anomalies than the eastern Pacific... June 2025: June 2011: Does the fact that this -PDO is being driven largely by the strength of the warm anomalies make any difference compared to -PDOs like 2011 where it's the cold anomalies? Anyone know?

Generally warm weather will prevail through Saturday. New York City will see highs in the middle to perhaps upper 80s during this stretch. Parts of the region could experience some thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon or evening. After that, the next rainfall will likely occur during a frontal passage early next week. Excessive heat does not appear likely to return through at least the first week of July. There remains some potential for a shot of more significant heat during the July 6-8 period. The worst of the heat, should it develop, will likely occur away from the coastal plain. The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +1.0°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was 0.2°C for the week centered around June 18. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +0.47°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.03°C. Neutral ENSO conditions will likely continue through at least late summer. The SOI was +7.32 today. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +1.176 today.

85/71 is so much better for softball than 95/77 like last week

Tree ring studies suggest that the 1960s were rated as a 500 year drought. Something that hasn’t been able to repeat in this much warmer climate with increased moisture. So we have been spared peak highs in the 110° to 115° range which would occur here with the much warmer climate of today and 1960s drought and westerly flow. https://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/glodech/PDFs/Pederson_etal_NYCdrought_revised.pdf

The lack of rain is getting tiresome.

wouldn't be surprising if we had another -EPO dominant winter with intervals of blocking. still some -PNA, obviously. likely AN temps in the mean, but we'll probably have some colder intervals with blocking... overall, doesn't seem like too much of a deviation from last winter's vibe, which I would run back and see if the dice can roll a bit better