LibertyBell

that offshore storm is going to delay the frontal passage. Saturday morning should be okay.

wow that 1821 gale hit both Norfolk and Long Island (hence the name). I wonder where this made landfall on Long Island?

No rain Friday, it will be at least partly sunny on Friday

on April 7, 2010 it was 67 in Long Beach and 87 at JFK lol.

everyone will be building homes like they do in the southwest soon enough. 90 degrees doesn't feel hot and the homes cool down rapidly at night.

I blame these stupid brick oven houses. They build homes much better in other parts of the country where 90 degrees doesn't feel hot at all and homes cool rapidly at night. In the future I strongly believe we'll all be building houses like that.

1982 - A four day storm began over New England which produced up to 14 inches of rain in southern Connecticut breaching twenty-three dams and breaking two others. Damage was estimated at more than 276 million dollars. (David Ludlum) 1988 - A dozen cities in the eastern U.S. reported record low temp- eratures for the date, including Atlantic City NJ with a reading of 40 degrees. Fifteen cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Glasgow MT and Havre MT with readings of 102 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) wow a 4 day storm in June 1982-- a few months after the historic April 1982 cold blizzard !! By the way this wasn't just a 4 day storm for New England, it was also for NYC and Long Island! I wonder how much rain fell here.... 14 inches of rain in Southern CT sounds like a lot of rain here too!! And it was 40 degrees at ACY on this date in 1988.... that must be the latest it's ever been 40 degrees there? 2 years ago history repeated itself and we were in the 40s here too! JFK: 49 (2023)

1825 - A hurricane struck Long Island NY leveling trees and causing damage to ships. The early season hurricane, which originated around Cuba, caused major damage along the Atlantic coast from Charleston SC to New York City. Many were lost at sea. (David Ludlum) 1825: A severe storm of tropical origin swept up the Atlantic Coast during the first week of June 1825 with reports of significant damage from Florida to New York City. Shipping logs told of a disturbance at Santo Domingo on May 28th and Cuba on June 1st. Gales were reported at St. Augustine, Florida on the 2nd. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald reported "undiminished violence" from the gale force winds for 27 hours, ending on June 4th. The effect of the storm reached well inland. Washington had cold, heavy rain all day on the 4th with high winds laying the crops in the vicinity. The wind also tore up trees by the roots in front of the State House in Philadelphia. This storm impacted the New Jersey Coast and the Long Island area as well with high winds and a two-foot storm surge. A Columbian frigate was driven ashore as were many smaller boats. The largest loss of life occurred along the Long Island shore when a schooner capsized. The entire crew of seven was lost. wow, this was a hurricane that hit up here in the first week of June? what were the SSTs? a 2 foot storm surge sounds just below hurricane intensity though? Maybe a Cat 1-- any re-analysis done on this storm's track, point of landfall and intensity, Tony?

it can't be 100x optical because that would necessitate a large heavy lens. I have a few digital cameras with 50X optical zoom and they all weigh over a pound lol. It's likely 10x optical and 10x digital zoom (combo is 100x). My cameras with 50X optical zoom also have 2x digital zoom (total of 100X like yours but heavier because 50x optical zoom weighs a lot and requires the lens to extend outwards about 6 inches from the body of the camera.)

whats the optical zoom on that? 10X I think thats the max for a cell phone and it also has built in image stabilization?

Looks like everyone was where they were supposed to be today lol

true, and a high of 103 in August in 2001, something that has very rarely happened. Besides that day, I think there's been only one other time NYC has hit 100 in August in my life and that was in 1983.

also ground level ozone, too many cars....

Today everyone is in the 70s-- except for NJ lol

I'm willing to find a way to drain the gulf of mexico to get rid of that humid crap. That would put an end to damaging hurricanes down there and violent severe weather outbreaks too. the dry heat of a westerly wind is much better.

hell no the humidity is MUCH worse than the heat, let's get the wonderful dry heat of a westerly breeze

There's a couple of other ones like that-- look up 2004 and 2014. These are typically very rainy summers, that's the only way to keep the temperatures down here. 1992 had a strong Pinatubo influence. The summers surrounding it were historically hot (both 1991 and 1993). 1994 and 1995 were also very hot. After 1996 and 1997 we had hotter summers again in 1998 and especially 1999. It basically went something like this 1990- moderately hot 1991- historically hot 1992- Pinatubo cooled 1993- historically hot 1994- early historically hot 1995- historically hot 1996- cool but very humid 1997- cool 1998- moderately hot 1999- historically hot 2000- cool 2001- cool 2002- historically hot 2003- cool but very humid (and a big black out on the hottest day) 2004- cool 2005- hot but onshore flow meant no extremely hot days

Sort of like December 1966 but a bigger event? 1966-67 a GREAT winter and it went out very snowy and very cold in March too.

Was that similar to the thundersnow event in December 1996? What a book end winter that was between December 1996 and April 1997 lol.

True we had some subzero cold in the early and middle 80s: Christmas 1980, January 1982, December 1983, January 1985. The wheels really fell off the wagon in the late 80s and especially the early 90s. Hell even when it was very cold (December 1989) it didn't snow much.

1977-78 was another winter that was great for a lot of people.

97-98 would have been the worst if it wasn't for that unexpected first day of spring snowfall, although 01-02 was a warmer winter and had the shortest period between first freeze and last freeze I've ever experienced. I had roses blooming until just before New Years and crocuses coming out in the last week of February lol

We had our latest snowfall on record that year too, April 19, 1983 1.5" here.

I had my biggest snowstorm I've ever experienced here in January 2016 (my only 30"+ snowstorm) so I would take it too. Plus some additional bonus snowfalls in February and the latest below zero temperature I've ever experienced (on Valentines Day morning!)

I noticed those are the only ones that have the temperature jump.