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We were still +PDO through the winter of 16-17. Just look at that big cold pool south of the Aleutians and warm crescent along the West Coast. Then in 17-18 you could see the beginning of a shift with lingering warm pool near the Baja and cold pool still north of Hawaii. Still plenty of warmth up in the Bering Sea. But this is when the first hint of warming began to the east of Japan. But not to the point of being overpowering yet.

Crazy how several days ago it looked like on and off rain for this weekend

I’m happy we had the wet May. Bank what we can before we inevitably start drying out during summer. That might be starting-models don’t have much here for the next 10 days.

Still sunny here. 78 already. TORCH! Drying out too which is nice...a week of no rain

You clearly keep making up arbitrary data. Let's dig into another station you mention above - West Chester PA. So why was West Chester also chilled by between 1.0 and 3.7 degrees each and every year for the 103 years between 1880 and 1982? Chilling the past remains the only clear man made climate changes to our data.

Of course it did

80° already and there's not much of anything for smoke. Today's going to torch.

Gorgeous out. However mosquitoes are brutal

Low of 63. MDT topped out at 89 yesterday. Seems the rain chances have dropped a good bit for tomorrow but increased for sunday.

The warmest temperature across the county yesterday was, of course, at the Brandywine Airport in West Chester at 86.0 degrees. Most spots saw temperatures between 81 and 84 yesterday. Today should be a degree or two warmer and will be the warmest day for a while. The pattern turns a bit unsettled later tomorrow and through the weekend. Not a washout at all but some showers are most likely on Saturday. Shower chances appear to increase again by next Tuesday. Our relatively wet pattern looks to continue with no foreseeable heat in our future. In fact most models show near normal to slightly below average temperatures through the 4th of July.

The warmest temperature across the county yesterday was, of course, at the Brandywine Airport in West Chester at 86.0 degrees. Most spots saw temperatures between 81 and 84 yesterday. Today should be a degree or two warmer and will be the warmest day for a while. The pattern turns a bit unsettled later tomorrow and through the weekend. Not a washout at all but some showers are most likely on Saturday. Shower chances appear to increase again by next Tuesday. Our relatively wet pattern looks to continue with no foreseeable heat in our future. In fact most models show near normal to slightly below average temperatures through the 4th of July.

Yeah from say Concord NH north it looks pretty rough for Saturday, basically a washout.

Records: Highs: EWR: 95 (2021) NYC: 99 (1925) LGA: 94 (2021) JFK: 90 (2010) Lows: EWR: 48 (1947) NYC: 47 (1945) LGA: 49 (1945) JFK: 50 (2023) Historical: Posted June 5, 2024 Records: Highs: EWR: 95 (2021) NYC: 99 (1925) LGA: 94 (2021) JFK: 90 (2010) Lows: EWR: 48 (1947) NYC: 47 (1945) LGA: 49 (1945) JFK: 50 (2023) Historical: 1805: A group of tornadoes tracked from southeast Missouri across the southern third of Illinois, and may also have moved into Indiana. These moved across the Mississippi River about 20 miles downstream from St. Louis, MO. Fish were reportedly "scattered all over the prairie" on the Illinois side of the river. Some pine tree tops, not native to that area of Illinois, were believed to have been blown in from at least 50 miles away. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1859 - Frost was reported from Iowa to New England. The temperature dipped to 25 degrees in New York State, and up to two inches of snow blanketed Ohio. The cold and snow damaged the wheat crop. (David Ludlum) 1908 - Helena MT was deluged with 3.67 inches of rain to establish their all-time 24 hour rainfall record. (4th-5th) (The Weather Channel) 1916 - A tornado struck the town of Warren AR killing 83 persons. There were 125 deaths that day in a tornado outbreak across Missouri and Arkansas. (David Ludlum) 1917 - Residents near Topeka KS reported disk-shaped hailstones six to ten inches in diameter, and two to three inches thick. The hailstorm was accompanied by a tornado. (The Weather Channel) 1925: Earliest 100° in Washington, DC. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1945: Unusually cold air moved in to parts of the upper Midwest. Chicago, IL dropped to 37° after setting a record low the previous morning with 35° while Rockford, IL dropped to 35° on both mornings. Both 35 degree readings established June record lows. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1987 - International Falls, MN, dipped to a record low reading of 34 degrees during the morning. Williston, ND, and Glasgow, MT, reported record warm afternoon highs of 94 degrees. Major flooding was reported along the Guadelupe River in South Texas, with the water level at Cuero reaching 18 feet above flood stage. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Twenty cities in the south central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville NC with a reading of 40 degrees. Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. The high of 108 degrees at Glasgow MT was a record for June. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southern Atlantic Coast during the day and into the night. Four tornadoes were reported, and there were 87 reports of large hail and damaging winds. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1995: The Hurricane name was not retired in 1995 thus a different Hurricane Allison is named as the 2001 Hurricane Allison below. Hurricane Allison became the earliest hurricane on record to cross the Florida coast at when it came ashore in Taylor County at Apalachee Bay with 75 mph winds. Hurricane Allison crossed the coast near Alligator Point in the Florida Big Bend area at 0900z on the 5th. At landfall, maximum sustained winds were 69 mph with a minimum central pressure of 990 millibars. Maximum rainfall amounts were between 4 and 6 inches. Storm surge heights were estimated at 6 to 8 feet from Dixie through Wakulla counties. Total storm damage in Florida was estimated at $860,000 dollars. The 1995 Atlantic Hurricane Season went down in the record books as one of the busiest hurricane seasons since 1871. There were a total of 19 named storms, 11 of which reached hurricanes. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1998: An F1 tornado touched down near the town of New Hope, MS creating a path one mile long and 50 yards wide. 13 houses had major damage and another 129 homes had minor damage. 22 mobile homes were either damaged or destroyed. Damages were estimated near $250,000 dollars. Another F1 tornado created a path two miles long and 50 yards wide 10 miles southeast of Hattiesburg, MS. 45 people were injured and two people were killed. The two fatalities were both in automobiles which ran into falling trees or the trees fell on them. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

Still around 77 degrees. After a very quick rise temps have stagnated. It's pretty cloudy right now so I'm sure that played a part.

77/66F, Misery underway.

NWS has 88 here for the high, perhaps first 90 if the seabreeze isn’t too strong early on. Beaches probably won’t make it much over 70.

Ended up not seeing an abrose jet event yesterday. Just a typical afternoon sea breeze. Looks similar today, maybe slightly stronger.

Hey everybody, we're going streaking!

It’s gross this am.

Clouds the caveat today.

74 / 64 partly cloudy. Warmest day since Aug 26th last year. Pending on clouds the warm areas in C/N/NE-NJ get first 90s of the year otherwise mid - upper 80s and a few 89's with dewpoints in the mid 60s. Warm Friday but clouds again limiting widespread 90s - enough sung gets some warmer spots to 90. Front is slow and hangs around nearby Fri night - Mon AM wit clouds popup storms and showers but the previously forecast frontal passage with widespread storms has been muted with less than 0.75 and only scattered sponts picking that up with storms. 6/ 9 - 6/14 overall warmer than normal with trough back to our west in the GL/MW and onshore component along the coast should keep the opportunity for storms and limit highs shy of 90. GFS lost its persistent long range tropical development. Beyond there mid month 6/16 week heights building east and the heat is moving north and east looking overall warm - hotter that week.

I only got to 66 overnight and my temp has skyrocketed to 77 degrees currently. Eeww come on man

That's been happening for a couple weeks now. Not sure if it's the result of DDOS attacks (these govt servers just get hammered all the time) or some broken/overloaded proxy servers that need replacing. I kind of suspect that the cybersecurity scanning tools (tenable, etc) that are employed constantly are almost acting like DOS attacks with the port scans and the proxy server can't handle all the incoming requests. The repeating pattern of a couple minutes of down time, and then fine for several hours suggests it.

I am expecting to see all white on today's Drought Monitoring Report.

It did not last through 2018. The +PDO was done in by the 2nd half of 2016 (July 2016 PDO +0.57, August 2016 PDO -0.63). It came to an end pretty much at the same time as super el nino. From about late 2016 until 2019, we were in a period of 0 PDO, before we went negative for good in early 2020.