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Likely 1988. First 2 weeks of August were hot and super dewy - TD reached 77 at PWM. I think that's still their highest. GYX now has our town hitting 98 on Tuesday; can't recall ever seeing that hot a forecast here. Since moving to Maine in 1973, I've seen only one day hotter than 95 - August 2, 1975 when BGR hit 102 - and haven't had anything above 93 since moving from Fort Kent in 1985. Of course, both our Gardiner home and current place are in the trees and thus transpirationally cooled.

83 / 60 another gorgeous sunny day, especially for weekend.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa (78F) will also be a new monthly record high minimum if it holds.

The same people that are super pro environment also want to fill every last gap of real estate with housing haha. NYC's UHI has been very pronounced for at least 100 years though, NYC had 8 million people 100 years ago.

We DEW it well! https://x.com/bennollweather/status/1936408762463723940?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

I don't think the PDO is similar to last year. We still have a -PDO, but I think we're heading towards neutral PDO as we get towards the winter. Progress isn't linear. Just look at 2013, which drifted back a bit into the negative during the summer: 2013 -1.10 -1.42 -1.48 -0.72 -0.40 -1.19 -1.34 -1.56 -1.00 -1.65 2025 -1.28 -1.40 -1.12 -1.16 -1.71

March and April were very dry. May and June have been wet. March dropped 1.38" which was 39% of normal. April gave 1.66" which was 49% of normal. May gave 5.42 which was 151 % of normal. To date, June has dropped 5.34" which is 211% of normal thru. June 21. The Valley is very green compared to a year ago.

Thunderstorms stayed south of the airport. I don’t think we dropped below 81. Feels like New Orleans out here.

and yet in the "suburbs", they continue to fill in the spaces between the spaces...

Top 10 summer day incoming? Last night was near perfect weather at the Green River Festival.

My concern with this east coast heatwave is heat related fatalities... I could be reading this wrong and someone else can post more realistic perspective.

Meanwhile, a number of record high monthly minimum temperatures set in the Plains from stations with threaded records extending into the 1800s. No doubt a lot more out there. These are only the ones I checked. I didn't look at any shorter POR sites. This ridge definitely seems to be getting its act together. High temperatures reached at least as high as 108F (Saint Francis, KS) yesterday. Not quite up to 2012 levels out there, but certainly a little more than the "it's just summer" narrative would seem to imply.

They do it to keep geese away too. They did it to every field in our town. I hate it.

Time 2 torch

Going to need to see some huge changes in the subsurface to see a Modoki, but I'm not overly concerned with orientation when ENSO is this weak...just not that important.

Ironic that you mentioned Sandy, Walt, the last time I remember such extreme heat so early was in June 2012, and we experienced Sandy a few months later.

NWS point and click for 21136 has 89° for my afternoon high. It's not yet 10 am and I'm already at 81°.

There are probably more. Those are just the sites I checked. MSP was 82F overnight, but has since dropped lower due to thunderstorm activity.

Morning thoughts:

the parks department sucks, I read that they are replacing playground grass fields with astroturf, which causes more heat and more injuries.... cheap goons (they dont want to pay for upkeep, watering, mowing, etc).

Haha good luck with that. I requested a few street trees on the parks department website 4 years ago and I've gotten nothing. This is on a form specifically made to request street trees in specific locations, I wasn't writing an email to the parks department asking for a free tree or something.

Incidentally, there's a major push in NYC and other large urban cities like Chicago, to greenify the city. Because UHI has major health implications too. The pledge is to make the city at least 30% green by 2030 and remove a lot of the concrete pollution where people live. We're also seeing it with the push for rooftop gardens, urban farming, community gardens, etc. So maybe greening the city will help control UHI and its health implications on people (while also cleaning the air, as more greenery means less air pollution and lower asthma rates too.)

Yes no doubt there are major foliage issues now and I think that manifests itself most in wet patterns like we were in until recently. It's much less of an issue when we're in a dry pattern.

Central Park wasn't wildly different on average compared to the surrounding stations until about 25 years ago.

well, the park maybe (which is what thousands of people do), but not in the concrete jungle of course.