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95 here right now.

And Central Park got up to 88 today, which is a degree higher than it got yesterday. So much for today being the cooler day due to the backdoor front.

The backdoor cold front cooldown idea for today was a complete fail. Probably 98 or 99 for tomorrow, but yeah hitting 100 wouldn't be a surprise.

Well 12z GFS shows what I was talking about. A big soaking Saturday into Saturday night to help with the drought, but it gets it out of the way for Sunday and would be fine for Sunday afternoon cookouts. Hopefully it'll work out that way.

I'm probably gonna hit 94 or 95 today which is a few degrees hotter than yesterday. Gonna have to go pretty far east for that advertised cooldown today with the backdoor front.

We desperately need the rain but I'd hate to see most of the holiday weekend ruined. I'm hoping for 2 out of the 3 days being not too bad. It's possible that Saturday ends up being the very rainy day with improvement for Sunday and Monday. It would still be cloudy and cool but hopefully dry enough for cooking outside. I wouldn't mind a soaking on Saturday but not too bad for Sunday and Monday, which some model runs have been showing. But of course there's still the risk of 2 out the 3 days being rainy -- a long way to go to figure it out. Anyway this is rough having this type of heat right now with it being so dry. The vegetable garden needs a lot of water.

Had a high temp of 91 degrees. It will definitely be a 4 day heat wave here.

I'm thinking my location will hit 97 or 98 on Tuesday.

Yep, as expected very little rain. I got only .03" here.

I see many of the models are now giving us less than a tenth on an inch tonight. I will water the vegetable garden today.

Yeah the overnight batch really overperformed. I ended up with 0.45" for the event. Not bad. Glad the garden got a good watering.

Yeah I had a very brief heavy downpour that dropped .05". Taking a look at radar now before I go to bed, I see a decent batch of rain is approaching. So maybe we can get a quarter to third of an inch out of this event afterall.

Even though it's a Saturday I'll gladly take it since we need the rain.

Yeah I got only .06" from that round of light rain. Not enough to give the vegetable garden a decent watering. I see the models are showing another round of rain during the overnight hours, so hopefully we'll get more then.

Only 54 degrees here with the gusty winds. Nasty for early May. Looking forward to mid 70s tomorrow.