LibertyBell

we're going to have to be like Dubai soon enough and have air conditioned roads and beaches lol.

wow I see another hot spot in SE Queens in the Rockaways, this matches my experience in SW Nassau!! in Far Rockaway people experience temperatures elevated by 11.6 degrees according to what this map reads!! that area south of Central Park experiences temperatures elevated by 13.2 degrees!! In Central Park it's a measly 7.1 degrees lol

wow excellent map, it shows the hottest spots in the entire city, whats going on at that location below Central Park thats deep violet lol. Do they have a map like this for Nassau County too, Ralph?

Yes, this is exactly what those two events were! The February 1993 event occurred on a weekend, I think a Sunday if I remember correctly and the one that was not predicted at all, in February 1991, occurred on a Friday if I remember that right.

wow there's a flash flood emergency in the Poconos!!

Look what I just posted in my edit haha we had two events like that during the early 90s and one was a complete surprise (the first one)

the heaviest stuff is occurring right now lol

No I mean if we had precip coming down from the same direction (north) in the winter, even if it happened differently. I remember a couple of times we had surprise snowstorms in the winter when an arctic front came down from the north and stalled just south of us. February 1993 is one example, we got 4-7 inches of snow out of that (my favorite kind, all day snow that cleared right at sunset.) The other one was in February 1991 (if I remember this one correctly, my favorite snowstorm prior to January 1996), we had over 8 inches of snow during an arctic frontal passage that was never supposed to do anything except for a few rain showers changing to snow showers. The front stalled and a low formed just SE of the Hamptons and it snowed here for 36 straight hours (my longest snow event to this day-- thats why I loved this event so much and it was a complete surprise). It would have accumulated a lot more than 8 inches, but the snowfall during the day was while temperatures were 33-34, it really started accumulating at night and we were the bullseye. There was no snow west of Newark or east of the Hamptons. Boston and Philly got nothing.

the rain is now getting heavy LOL

this would be a nice surprise snowstorm in the winter lol

so some beach locations in Florida do hit 100 degrees on occasion!! 2009: Florida: Temperature records tumble with Vero Beach leading the record heat parade with a record high of 102°F and a heat index of 111°F. Elsewhere in the state, Tallahassee hits 103°F; Daytona and West Palm Beach, 96°F and Miami 98.°F.(Ref. WxDoctor)

I think makes it a wet weekend for everyone, look at how widespread the rain is.

what causes it to move from north to south though? our winds are not coming from the north....

yes on the positive side, barring any unforeseen rain (heh) next weekend should be in the low 80s with sunshine. Thursday will be the last hot day, major change coming by Friday. This is now normal for us, even if they are extreme, our heatwaves are rarely longer than 4-5 days anymore.

I hear thunder and the ground is wet here, so it's raining but the rain is very light.

Maybe it's time to move the weekends to the middle of the week?

Yes but wet ground can also suppress temperatures, we didn't see this kind of thing in 1999 or 2010.

Yes, do you see what I mean about our new wetter climate? This kind of shit did not happen in 1953 or 1966.

I like severe weather after heat wave season ends-- glad to see severe weather did not interfere with our nice dry heat in 2010 :-)

Thanks Ralph, I think you were the one who measured the actual snowfall in Central Park too!!

well, some have said that nuclear testing led to some of those extreme heatwaves in the 40s and 50s (1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955)..... there's no real proof of that though and if that's true, what led to the extreme heat in 1966? A drier climate is the likely cause for all of these.

That was the ideal time to live here.

Thanks, this was the hottest June day that I remember.

Thanks this is some way to begin their period of record (which began in late July.)

Newark wow, 5 days out of 6 of 100 or above and an all time September record of 105....... Sundog would not be pleased lol.