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The water in Wildwood NJ was quite nice last weekend. The surf was meh.

I've seen more people out and about today than I saw combined for Mon-Wed..

the really hot summers began with 1944, the 1944s and 1950s were a cut above everything that happened before and since. And a few of the 1960s, like 1966, has never been matched.

Down to 69

Too cold unless you're laying down asphalt or clear cutting forests.

If we had a drought and this was a month later, then maybe the 2010 and 2011 highs of 108° could have been challenged. Hard to say for sure. But it’s interesting that this strongest heatwave in over a decade followed the record westerly flow this past winter into spring. Even though we are seeing a quick return to easterly flow. Plus continuing the measurable rainfall on weekend pattern without it being a washout. I guess we are lucky that we haven’t experienced any severe droughts like we had from the 1960s to around 2001. Since droughts of that magnitude with the warmer background pattern would probably support 110°+ peak heat and our first consecutive 10 days reaching 100° and perhaps a 25 day official heatwave of reaching 90°. While this heatwave only produced some scattered outages, not sure how well our power grid would hold up with such extreme drought feedback driven heat.

Many models yesterday had a stripe of mid 80s for 2PM today in NYC and western LI because they showed temps never really dropping below the upper 70s. Needless to say they all busted pretty badly.

it's mostly minimum driven, the highs and lows have become compressed

August 26-28 had an extreme 3 day 100+ heatwave though

Same here. There was a nice little storm yesterday that missed me by a half mile. I could smell the rain and see the lightning, but all I got was a few raindrops. Definitely look forward to a widespread rainfall.

Even July 1936 which has the 106 record in Central Park finished below normal using today's fake averages. Our baseline is higher and we don't get those nice coolshots in between the heat episodes like we used to, or at least they are much more rare.

Grateful for the 1.08" of rain last night about 7:00. But the winds were bad and we got about 5 minutes of dime to nickel sized hail. What is amazing about the storm is that it came down from the north. We just don't get many storms that severe that make it over the mountains of South Carolina without breaking up. I guess it was a testament to how unstable the atmosphere was. There was large hail reported near the apple orchards in Henderson County. Has anyone heard if there was damage to the apple crop?

sat-mon looks like our next potential heat wave

Clearing later or mostly cloudy all day?

we all had midnight highs in the 80s so this little cool blip will only show up as one day in the records

We were there for the Fathers Day tournament. Called for rain all weekend but we got all the games in! Have a great time!

Yeah, low was 75, but been sitting at 82 now for a bit

all three summer months were below average and july had a low in the 50s

Yeah who's going to complain about temps in the '60s and '70s. Perfect.

5 degrees cooler here at time this versus yesterday. 87 here, 89 in DC., but a much lower 70 in NYC.

Many beach surf zone locations reporting temps of 70 F or higher. Seems about right for this time of year, as it is almost July. Next Wednesday looks like the next best day for more groomed waves and a period of off shore winds with as high tide during the mid afternoon hours. Went surfing last week, but it was not so great, winds shifted around and too many conflicting incoming swell directions, that may not be an issue next week.

post August 20th 100 degree heat is very rare which is why the super heatwave in August 1948 and August - September 1953 are so notable. As is the August 20, 1983 100 degrees at JFK and the 99 on September 11, 1983.

Storms already firing in Haywood and down into Jackson County. I know home has already seen two storms this morning.

Actually I wonder if Berkshire County could get some strong storms late Sat afternoon or early evening

Thanks Don, I got some clarity on this page (it coincides with the 2 straight 100+ days that happened at JFK during the same period. https://www.weather.gov/okx/100degreedays The only two periods of three consecutive 100+ days at NYC were in 1948 and 1993. Both times JFK had two consecutive 100+ days. NYC has had multiple separate heatwaves that peaked at 100+ on a few occasions. 1944 (two heatwaves in August), 1949 (once in July once in August), 1953 (July and August-September), 1954 (two heatwaves in July), 1955 (one in July and one in August), 1966 (a whopping three separate heatwaves that peaked at 100+, one in June and two in July). And that was the last previous time it happened, NYC has not had multiple heatwaves peak at 100+ since the 3 heatwaves that did it in 1966. More recently, JFK had two heatwaves peak at 100+ in 1983 (one in July and one in August and another one that peaked at 99 in September.) That was the only time they had that.