Large junkyard fire in Hunts Point. South wind is sending smoke and hazy skies miles north at least to Westchester county line, esp on the Yonkers/Mt Vernon side. Teterboro is offically reporting Smoke and 76*
Smoke/Haze here, 75 with chemical smokey smell in the air
pretty impressive, torrential rainfall windy, with about 5 mins of very powerful wind gusts that took down some tree branches, a few of which may of been weakened already.
Cloudy 89, after a high of 93. 31st of the year. Basically following LGA, but a little less 95+ days. Looking back, mid July to early Aug was almost wall to wall 90s. 7/24, and 7/31 broke up what would of been a super heat wave.
That's Laura. Models have been switching back and forth between her and Marco/TD14.
Its be crazy if we got to see the Fujiwhara effect happen with these 2 storms.
Flash flood warning, some thunder but not a drop here. Im told its pouring a quarter mile south of me. Queens north of LIE, to Fordham Rd/Pelham Pkwy, Bx getting it good
Its all relative..lows 70s still felt cool to me esp with managable humidity. Thought id have an outside shot at getting below 70, but 72 was the low. Compared to typical lows of mid 70s to low 80s w/ high humidity this summer this is a very cool day. Next few nights look like small chances to get a touch below 70 within the core UHI, if not then who know how long it'll go.
Yeah the gague at the Battery showed a storm surge, you can see a small jump near low tide so it just ended up being like an extra near normal high tide
Sandy, Irene, Isaias, Fay
Irene goes ahead of Isaias for me because it brought significant flooding as well. both urban street flooding and river flooding. I've seen the Bronx river flood many times but Irene may have been the most I can remember seeing it outside its banks.
Plus Sandy had power outages from storm surge flooding key infrastructure too. That can decimate the whole system and with no quick fix. Fortunately we dont have that problem.
Also, thanks to that, Manhattan has avoided almost all power outages while every other boro has widespread power problems.
Con Ed says this is the 2nd biggest power outage in its history. Biggest being Sandy of course. Irene now moves down to 3rd.
When the winds died down more I explored further and its really a mess. I moved my car to the most tree free spot I could find just before the onset of strong winds, now half that block has damaged cars from trees. Glad I moved in time. Also ran into random pockets of no power scattered around.
wow I think its worse, and more sustained strong winds
Cant say I've ever experienced powerful winds with bright sunshine in the summer before. If it wasn't for the greenery it's look more like a powerful cold frontal passage in November
Pretty extensive power outages on the Con Ed map. Some traffic lights out around here. I'm told neighborhoods just to east closer to I-95 near co op city with widespread power outages.
Sun out like a light switch , clouds racing through