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Well the ridge axis has been further west than recent years. Recent summers it has been east of New England with more onshore flow. So this is why places like JFK have seen more 100° days with the increased westerly flow.

They would still need approval to move it elsewhere in the Park.

Today and Wednesday (30th) are the only two days of the year where four years share the record high for NYC. Today (97) is 1892, 1931, 1949 and 1999. For Wednesday 30th (98) the four years sharing the record are 1917, 1933, 1940 and 1988. In between on 29th, 1949 (99F) has sole possession. There are eight days during the year where the record high is shared by three years. Two of these fall on Aug 18 and 19 during the next notable relatively cool spell for record highs (97 is tops for Aug 15 to 25, the two three-way ties are both 94). In between the two relatively cool intervals, July 31 to Aug 14 average record high is 99.8 F. Then again, from Aug 26 to Sep 3 the average returns to 100F, but most of those records are from two years, 1948 then 1953 (1929 had 99F on Sep 3).

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It's usually the same "have nots" year after year. Geographic influences are real, and a bitch.

Similar boat here and, frankly, maybe more of a micro because I’m right up against Gambrill State Park/Watershed. Grass is not just a tint of brown, but legitimately getting brown.

Oh man look at this from the 12z NAM for DSM this evening. Those CAPE numbers are ridiculous. 1450 Hail CAPE...WOOOOOOWWWWWW

None of the models had 100° today anyway. The heat was always expected to peak Tuesday into Wednesday. Smoke only becomes an issue for temperatures when it’s thick enough. Even then the effect would only be a degree or two unless we have June 2023 levels which was historic due to the magnitude and closeness of the wildfires in Canada. The current wildfires are further away in Canada so it hasn’t been as thick as 2023. But a few days ago the low level smoke was thick enough to drop the air quality.

I'm a little suspicious the GFS is over mixing ... It's got 2-m DPs under 60 F N of the Pike around 21z here shortly, where it is presently 67 to 71. It's an interesting test for tomorrow - it's possible that mixing DPs out may be goosing the kinetic temps

Stuck at 80 with all the debris clouds, even with the Heat Advisory in effect today. No way we're going to top 90 or even the upper 80s. NWS might as well just cancel the Heat Advisory today.

The clouds are way more of a problem than any smoke, it shot up to 95 here 30 minutes ago but it's been mostly cloudy since then and temperatures have dropped, even on a land breeze day, the clouds screwed us out of 100 today. Now I see why 100 degrees was much more common for the city and here between 1944-1966, it was much less cloudy and moist back then. I will say this is a busted forecast because NO ONE expected it to be cloudy today in the afternoon.

Kind of surprised at the 1630Z expansion of the moderate. Recent HRRR runs have trended toward less organized clusters as opposed to the high-end derecho on last night's 0Z.

it's baaaaaaaack

oh ok never mind

Bob Ross and his happy little clouds. (One either gets that or they don't)

That weather will include you two clowns too lol. Region wide. Isn’t this what you’ve been posting about for the last week? The start to August that looks great?

91/70 here

These always are wat overdone with convection involved .. robs moisture transport . They’ll be a narrow zone of a few inches but most likely NYC or NJ

Last winter the underestimation of the Southeast Ridge or Western Atlantic ridge occurred with the storm track. So the heaviest snows kept shifting north right up until storm time with a stronger ridge than forecast. But in previous winters it has been both storm track and the overall average 500 mb pattern that the models regularly underestimate.

I've seen the ICON do this at more times than I care to remember and it's seldom correct. The best way I can describe a cause - though it's purely speculation ... - is that it's really like that model confuses the Labrador current as an atmospheric phenomenon, such that when given any reason to turn the flow NE/E like most guidance are doing on Friday, it ends up with that plume of subsurface SSTs as an atmospheric tsunamis. Partially sarcasm there of course... it's more likely that it's got a bias in proficiency and speed to thermodynamically fix/couple the lower levels to the water

These smoke forecasts from the models vary quite a bit from run to run. So it’s much more of a trial and error process. Always have to check in the mornings to see how close to reality the HRRR and other models are doing.

we should bake, especially with the westerly sfc flow and should have ample sun

That humidity was just brutal yesterday. Looks like KABE got to a peak dew point of 77 which is fairly rare for this area. Good thing it wasn’t terribly hot or else it would have been completely miserable out there. Really looking forward to the arrival of the cold front on Thursday night…hopefully we get a good day or two of storms before that.

Oh please

it goes along with all the other forms of geoengineering like usage of toxic pesticides that is driving the mass extinction of vital pollinators. Not only that, other creatures have been geoengineering for billions of years-- blue green algae (photosynthetic bacteria) changed the composition of our atmosphere to make it hospitable for us to exist.