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Thunder and lightning here but no rain, actual storm just missed by just several blocks it seems. Dramatic cool down, it feels amazing out for the moment. Came home to indoor temp 95, highest I can remember. Basically beyond the capabilities of some window AC's. Not doing much. Actual high outside of 102, before the plummet to the 70s.
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This is what kills many potential record high minimum temps.
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Its 97 at 10pm so very possible. I believe the record is 86. Central Park record is 84, which is in play. There have been overnights even warmer than those in the past but the record doesnt hold because they are often followed by t storms at some point on the same day that drops temps into the 70s
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And now LGA "down" to 99 but dews are back in the 70s so highest heat indexes of the day are occurring now
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Yeah. Cant say its a fluke or outlier sensor either. As of 9am almost all the real time sensors in NYC are in the 90s, plenty mid 90s as well. Just a couple were still at 89.
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Its a brutal start esp urban areas. It feels how yday afternoon did already.
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54?? Where? Jersey or LI?
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90/75
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89/74. Temp has been slowly but steadily rising, especially after about 9:30 pm. Was as low as 84 shortly after sunset.
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Actually the Park was a decent representation of NYC today. Same 93 at LGA, and several degrees warmer than JFK, as you would expect with a south wind most of the day. That intense upper 90s heat was more in NJ and west of the Hudson in general. Or a good distance north of NYC in the Hudson Valley. Did achieve 100+ heat indexes though with mid 70s dew points.
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91 dew 75. Temps is hot but not extreme. Been steady at about 91 since just after 12pm. Humidity is what tough. Heat index staying in the low 100s. Sometimes days like this will have a late day high in the evening. South wind fizzles and a quick spike occurs.
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I partially blame local media outlets too. They can put more emphasis on other sites when nessasary. Or stop saying things like, NYC has not experienced 100+ since 2012. Central Park hasnt. There have been multiple offical 100 degree readings within NYC at LGA and even JFK. Plus plenty others where ever Con Ed puts a thermometer for what its worth. They probably just don't give it much thought, since many do not have decades of real life context about NYC climate records like people here. They work in NYC media because it was the best job offer.
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We've had a good amount of quite low humidity days too. There are other years where it doesnt rain alot but at least the days with dew points in the 40s, or 30s are done by now.
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Just based on feel, being out and about in Manhattan there was no was it was a run of the mil around 90 degree day. It had to be mid to upper 90s out. The Park was especially lagging yday considering we haven't had alot of heavy rain lately. It doesnt make sense that even the heliport downtown was running ahead of the Park and their sensor is sitting on a pier sticking out into the East River, just about to open into Upper NY Bay.
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Tiny sample size, but I wonder how the summers in those years turned out. I know '77 was the year with the brutal heatwave and legendary blackout.
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It does. Heavy downpours and constant thunder and lightning. Impressive for any time but especially for March.
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Yes we need this extended soaking rain to wash this salt away. These mist and drizzle days wasnt really doing it.
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You likely spent some time under that heavy band that largely sat over the same area. Roughly a line from Staten Island, to Newark to Teterboro to Tarrytown to Yorktown Heights etc. Then relatively "lighter" snow going SE from you closer to the Sound, and across to Northern Nassau. Then picks up again as you head more into LI and most of NYC to the west closer to those bands. It's a lot of the snow for all, but you may be seeing the difference between over 2 ft of snow vs totals in the teens to around 20."
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Blizzard of 96. I think 3 days. Only snow days of my life. That was a way more impactful storm though, and the transit system didn't hold up nearly as well as now. A lot of current policies stem from avoiding that happening again. Also I suspect the Central Park total for that storm was undercounted. Or they just avoiding some heavy banding. Because that didn't look or feel like 20" of snow. A lot of places must of been 30"
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I get wanting school closed, but people shouldn't be surprised it isn't, unless they are new here. NYC schools are very stingy with school closings. Once the actual storm is over and hours of plowing has occurred, it takes a near complete failure of the subway system to close schools. Or something like 2010 with stranded cars, plows, and buses all over the city. Also there is no extra time baked into the schedule, so it has to be made up somewhere else. Spring break, extra day in late June? If school is open but hardly anyone shows up it still counts as an instruction day. Id rather that than losing a holiday later on or delayed summer vacation. I don't think they like to do remote learning without preparing for it in the days prior, but this is coming off of mid winter recess plus the forecast of an actual blizzard developed fast.
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A snow hole at times as you get close to the Sound, and across it into Northern Nassau. 'Hole" is relative cause over a foot is still a lot of snow, but yeah historic level snow is just to the west, NW, and south. Getting a burst right now though with stronger winds, looks like it could drop a quick inch or so.
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Hard to measure snow. multiple measurement range from 11" - 18" Around 15" is best estimate. Snow band remains just to the west, and due south. Been in flurries for the last few hours here, but snow starting to pick up some now. That band seems to not want to move east of the Bx River Pkwy so far..
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yeah you definitely got into some heavier bands. I near Pelham Bay Park and it seem like it nearly stopped completely for a while. Its picking up now though, might be the heaviest snow I've seen so far.
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You're in the west or east side of the Bx?
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Near the Sound shore it seem to be some long periods of very light snow, lots of blowing snow though.
