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what I find ironic is that JFK's 99 was actually on the day prior to the hottest day in the other locations. LGA and EWR set the monthly records with their 104 and 105 and NYC was only one degree off with their 103.

Thanks Tony!! Wow, the skies are so deep blue, I could live with this weather forever. Screw summer, screw winter, just have this weather 24/7/365 lol

wow this has to be the greatest August heatwave that I lived through, do you have the same list for NYC and JFK too? I think they came close to 100 on more than one day too.

I wish we had this for the Perseid meteor shower next week (and no interference from the moon).

1944 had 3 100+ days at both NYC and EWR, 1948 had three in a row at both NYC and EWR and 2 in a row at JFK, I think that might have been our most extreme August heat, although 1953 definitely needs to be mentioned as having our longest heatwave on record.

Tony, how hot was the August 2001 heatwave at both EWR and NYC, did we come close to having three straight days of 100+? I know JFK never made it to 100 in 2001 but they hit 98 on one day and 99 the next day I think? I was looking for your 8-7-2001 historic records post but could not find it.

No those southerly winds are much worse, if we get a westerly wind we will get nice 100 degree dry heat, which is much better than 75 degree dew points

actually that's not true Chris, on August 7, 1918 Newark hit 105 and NYC hit 104 August 2001 gets honorable mention for hitting 103. We have a long way to go to match the kinds of heatwaves we had back then.

Meh Central to northern Queens heat is normal, it better make it to 100 all the way down here, otherwise it's not historic, it's just normal heat

my favorite kind of heat, I hope it's like August 1980 / August 1983 / August 2001

the tropics usually get busy for us after August 20th and more likely in September-- this is how I remember 1995 and 1999 The only hot summer I remember with a tropical event in August is 1991, which came at the tale end of a really hot summer

It would be nice to keep the super high dew points away permanently, I can't deal with 75+ dew points.

dry heat is easier to tolerate.... do you remember anything about the heat in August 2001, I remember it as only feeling hot for that one day.

if it hits 100 it won't be boring

we actually want 100 degrees with westerly flow, not a disgusting southerly wind with high humidity... onshore flow is far worse and on top of that low 90s is really boring, if it's going to be hot make it historic and fun, not low 90s mediocre heat. CC has made our extreme heat less extreme and more humid, so the climate models were wrong about that for years before they *corrected*.

Yes exactly and on top of that the air pollution is gone, that was the best outcome of the entire week.

Records:Highs:EWR: 101 (2001)NYC: 99 (2001)LGA: 98 (2001)JFK: 99 (2001) wow we came this close to hitting 100 on multiple days in August 2001

This is ideal weather. Sorry I have to disagree with you about the smoke, smoke is air pollution and shortens life expectancy, I would take this weather over smoke. I would even take heat over smoke, because you can use an air conditioner to stop the heat, there's nothing you can do to stop smoke unless you wear a mask. Which is what they have been recommending in the Midwest.

Yes lots of innovations in the near future, I find it frustrating that we took so many steps backwards during and after the 80s we have a lot of ground to make up

But our safety standards are much higher than what Chernobyl had.

If that's the case, China will be leading the world into the future, Don.

not doing a good job on stopping famines, preventing wars or any of its other stated missions though

Even though the left (I wouldn't say it's most of the left, maybe a very small portion?) doesn't like nuclear fission, I find it understandable-- those people are stuck in the past of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and maybe even Fukushima. Those concerns are reasonable even if they are wrong (just don't build a nuclear power plant near a fault line), I don't get the right's issue with renewables. Are they aware that Texas has the highest renewable capacity of any state in the country? It seems to me it's not the right that is opposed to renewables, it's the fossil fuel industry that feeds the right that is opposed to them.

We have some light showers now, will this help with the smoke? If anything the visibility has gotten even less!

Yes, it's ironic and in a sad way, people think they have free will (and we do to a certain extent), but everything we do is controlled by natural processes. War, mass migration, etc, are all the result of what we do to the planet and on the planet.