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65 dew 60. Up 10 in an hr.

It was always going to be a late high temp, sometime after sunset. Temps here have taken off since 4pm, mid 50s to low 60s in 20 mins

Had some flashes of lightning late morning with a brief downpour.

Ok now it's mainly snow ❄ I got this Weatherflow Tempest PWS so now I can start putting it to the test.. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNYNEWYO1578 https://tempestwx.com/station/63889

36 and rain..perhaps a few wet snowflakes if you squint enough.

That's true..those fractions of an inch do get lost if you don't measure quickly. It was worse then when the zookeeper was doing the measurements. That's a benefit of using airports since its a 24/7 operation and even if they care less about meteorology, they have aviation reasons as motivation to keep track of snowfall etc. No one's going out to measure 0.2" in a park at 3am unless you're really passionate about the weather, or you had to be there anyway.

97-98 was the virtually snowless winter until the late March 5" surprise storm, depriving us of the least snowiest season on record. The 0.5" seemed right to me. I had no idea LGA recorded a couple inches. Under such marginal conditions maybe LGA got under a heavy snow band allowing some acclumation or bringing down enough cold for a brief change to snow at some point. The Park can be bad, but 0.5" was a good representation of that winter in the city. I remember seeing no snow acclumation until the late March storm..which melted in the March sun by sunset, and a hot end to March followed if I remember right. That was around the time I started to give up on the city/coast being a snowy place. I took it as the price paid to the snow gods for the epic 95-96 season. Then the 2000s came and everything flipped lol

Beautiful Dec day, Sunny, 50 calm wind

Moderate to occasionally heavy snow in lower Manhattan

I've always suspected that is a factor. If it was out in the open I'm sure someone would mess with it just because. You still can now, its just not very noticeable unless you are looking for it.

Mapped UHI shows Central Park ( or any large park) isn't a great representation of the day to day experience in NYC. Being in an open field instead of directly under a canopy of trees would help some at least. Manhattan in general looks the coolest on average, at least in the daytime. Particularly Midtown and Lower Manhattan, thanks to extensive shade from high rises. "Using satellite data from the US Geological Survey’s Landsat 8 satellite, the New York City Council’s Data Operations Unit put together a map of how temperature varies across the city..." https://council.nyc.gov/data/heat/ Matched up with parks highlighted. Largest NYC parks: Pelham Bay (1st), Greenbelt, SI (2nd), Van Cortlandt (3rd) are the coolest places, as expected.

Freeze warning this am..holding steady at 33. Coldest night so far

I saw somewhere it's considered a marine heat wave now off the northeast coast. They concluded this marine heat wave was a significant factor in the record rain and flooding in the Ida remnants event.

I thought it'd get a few degrees colder here. Wind seem calm..ideal for most places but I've heard it been said calm winds isn't always the best in the most urbanized areas for coldest temps since a breeze can act like a fan on the UHI. Sat am first shot at freezing?

41 after a low of 39. No frost. Tomatoes, peppers etc live on

37..tied coldest of the season so far. Frost advisory tomorrow am for Bronx, Manhattan, Hudson County, NJ, Southern Nassau

Wow maybe my first real hail storm within NYC I've seen. Not just occasional pellets but heavy hailstorm with some acclumation

Some very strong winds howling in lower Manhattan. Didn't expect winds that strong. Workout for the day walking against it. With it alot of temps in the upper 60s now

45 after a low of 40. Finally can see some significant foliage in the 5 boros, but still below 50% overall. Look like real explosion of color as close as north half of Yonkers or so.

Patchy frost at best type morning in or immediately near NYC. Saw frost on cars parked along Bronx Park E along/near NY Botanical Garden. A block away from the park, nothing. Drove through Pelham Bay Park and saw some patchy frost, then into dtwn New Rochelle where I saw none. If you're block is leafy enough it pushes you over the edge

May not end up a bust but I can understand why ppl would think that. After 10 am ish It was a dry day with some breaks of sun today. A lul is one thing. Its not a lul anymore when it's all day...and not even some light showers or drizzle during the day. Especially compared to the hype it might seem a dud, at least at up to this point. I personally have no problem with that either. I've seen enough flooding this yr.

breaks of sun in lower Manhattan

Temps on the rise once the hazy sunshine finally broke through. 77 dew 67

Yeah I always figured EWR and JFK radiate better at night. LGA isn't bordered by marshland or anything. It's highly urbanized and dense right up the the runways lol. Thousands of ppl live right across the street from LGA. It is on the East River but right across from Rikers and very industrial Hunts Point. A N to NW wind is coming off the south Bx and traffic clogged Bruckner, Major Deegan etc. LGA is a good representation of standing waiting for a bus on a city street or day to day life is like. Central Pk is what a picnic in a shady park is like, and JFK is what a day at the beach is like.

I can't see NWS doing anything besides the status quo. It would take some tragedy unfortunately, like a catastrophic heat wave that was underestimated due to a pigeon hole focus on Central Park readings. Better off trying to get media to incorporate other NYC stations more prominently in their forecasts etc.