LibertyBell

The solution is to average out NYC, EWR, JFK, LGA and then you get the full of range of weather in New York City (which covers 5 boroughs). I believe LGA runs too hot now, look at how elevated their lows are compared to everyone else and it has the highest concentration of traffic now, which is much worse now than it was during the 30s-50s period when NYC was hotter (as was JFK.)

tomorrow is the first day of summer around 10:30 am? Just in time!

I also think there is a direct connection between seabreeze summers and winters in which the coast gets less snow, the processes are very similar.

were you living down here back then? I remember you said you lived on Long Island growing up I think.

so similar to 1993 but of a somewhat lower magnitude? That was one of those summers that was hotter the further west you went unlike 1993 which was hot throughout everywhere, my favorite summer before 2010. 1994 was more like 1988.

Yes, it did make landfall here, I wonder why no one ever talks about that, was it a minimal tropical storm when it was making landfall here?

1972 - Hurricane Agnes moved onshore near Cape San Blas FL with wind gusts to 80 mph, and exited Maine on the 26th. There were 117 deaths, mainly due to flooding from North Carolina to New York State, and total damage was estimated at more than three billion dollars. Up to 19 inches of rain deluged western Schuylkill County PA. The rains of Hurricane Agnes resulted in one of the greatest natural disasters in U.S. history. Agnes caused more damage than all other tropical cyclones in the previous six years combined (which included Celia and Camille). (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel) Didn't Agnes also make a landfall near JFK Tony? 1794: A violent tornado commenced west of the Hudson River in New York. The tornado traveled through Poughkeepsie then crossed the border into Connecticut where it went through the towns of New Milford, Waterbury, North Haven, and Branford. It then continued into Long Island Sound. The tornado did extensive damage, and the funnel was reported by one observer to look like the "aurora borealis." <<< this must have been an F3 at least 1835 - A tornado tore through the center of New Brunswick NJ killing five persons and scattering debris as far as Manhattan Island. The tornado provided the first opportunity for scientists to study firsthand the track of such a storm. (David Ludlum) <<< this sounds like an F3 too also wow, you don't see stuff like this in this region anymore. and this must have been the peak of the heat in 1994, July and August were not this hot for us (but very hot for Philly.) Not historical like 1993, but just a step below it. Highs: EWR: 103 (1994) NYC: 98 (1994) LGA: 97 (1994) JFK: 98 (1994)

people who love blue skies and sunshine. find an a/c to stand near

our modern farming practices are horrible, we need to completely defund the corn and soybean cartels and we need more super derechos to take them down. why is the Pac NW getting the drought and not us? They have an ocean to their west and the flow is west to east and we have an entire continent to our west, shouldn't they be getting the excessive rains and we getting the drought? 1995 was an extremely hot summer in the midwest. The 1990s really were like the 1930s-1950s era for big summer heat, we haven't seen that kind of consistent heat since (though we did see it briefly from 2010-2013.)

Maybe the excessive rainfall from CC has caused this foliage overgrowth..... looking at my front yard, I think this is the correct idea. NYC had much less rainfall and a much drier climate during the 1930s-1960s with less foliage in our parks, so it was much easier to get record heat back then.

westerly flow would mean 100+ right to JFK

Yep, hasn't rained at all since yesterday morning. The switch has flipped.

this really is more of a tropical rainforest type of climate, in that kind of climate, you do not get extremely high temperatures because most of the heat is absorbed by the excess moisture in the atmosphere (which creates those high rainfall events later on in the summer.) Maybe this predominant sea breeze is a function of climate change, as the planet seeks to balance out the differences between land and ocean?

we had it in the morning you're getting it now.

I agree, I guess I am asking that if the chances are higher than normal for both NYC and JFK to hit 100 degrees at least once in July, like they did during the 2010-2013 era.

any early call on July, Don? a continuation of the heat? do you think it will reach the magnitude of 2010-2013 or will it be somewhat less than that?

sounds like a wonderful place to see a rainbow from (we usually see rainbows here just before sunset.)

we had a 5 inch sleet storm here in the middle of March lol

When I looked up Central Park I was shocked to learn that the very first time they hit 100 was also the latest it's ever happened -- September 7th 1881 -- 101 degrees! The only other time they have ever hit 100+ in September was in 1953 at the end of the longest heatwave on record, 12 days -- 102 degrees and also the all time monthly record (it hit 100+ a record 4 times in 1953, evenly split between two 7+ day superheatwaves, later matched by the very dry summer of 1966.)

Now maybe, it just dropped into the upper 70s here

I hope they sited it properly lol, have you taken a trip there to see where they put it?

Yep February-April 2007 were really cold with the VD2007 storm, the St Paddys Day 2007 storm and the Tax Day Noreaster in April. The first three weeks of January 2007 (it hit 70) were warmer than the first three weeks of April 2007!

you forgot about Thursday when we were all in the 90s lol

we were in the mid 80s out here in the western part of the south shore.

a/c time!!