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https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2013/07/how-hot-is-hot-concentration-of-90-degree-days.html This uses a more nuanced methology-- it ranks summers by concentration of 90 degree days between first and last. Looking at records dating back to 1872, the most 90-degree days in a year has been 39 - and it happened twice - in 1991 and 1993. However, while 1991's occurred over a lengthy span of 23 weeks, 1993's were more concentrated, occurring over five fewer weeks. 1991's hot days, in other words, were more "diluted". While 1991 experienced 90-degree temperatures during 24% of its "window", 1993's corresponding figure was 31%. Yet, neither of these hot summers come close to 1999. Although that year had ten fewer 90-degree days, they were concentrated in a sixty-day window. That means that close to half of the days during its 90-degree window were in the 90s. And 1988 wasn't far behind, with 33 90-degree days over 77 days (43% concentration). Four other years with a considerable number of 90-degree days (24 or more) also had a higher concentration of 90-degree temperatures than either 1991 or 1993. So, you be the judge over which summer was hotter. Even if you go by average temperature (which I don't) 1999 still had the hottest month on record-- July 1999. Almost tied with July 1966 and July 2010 according to this. https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2012/07/revisiting-new-york-citys-hottest-summers-.html The summer of 1966, New York's second hottest on record, has the honor of having the hottest average monthly high temperature. Although July 1999 was the hottest month on record based on mean daily temperature (average of the day's high and low), the average high in July 1966 was hotter than July 1999 by 0.1 degree, 90.3° vs 90.2°. However, July 1999's average low was 3.5 degrees warmer (72.6° vs 69.1°) and that's what easily put it on top. July 2010 missed tying July 1999 as NYC's hottest month on record because of a 0.1 degree difference in average high temperature. However, 2010's consolation was that it become New York's hottest summer on record because June and August were hotter. The same page also mentions how dry 1999 was. Getting just one inch of rain over 2 months has to be some sort of record. Two of New York's five hottest summers were also extremely dry. 1966 had the the driest summer on record, with every month receiving less than two inches of rain (1.17" in June; 1.25" in July and 1.89" in August). The summer of 1999 was the fourth driest and featured the second driest June (0.59") and the driest July on record (0.44"). The combined rainfall of those two months was barely more than one inch (average rainfall in June and July is close to eight-and-a-half inches).

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No there is a big argument for not using average temperatures because that also factors in low temperatures. That's not how "hot" is defined. "HOT" is defined by the number of 90 degree days. The more 90 degree days a summer has, the more hot days a summer has....the data speaks for itself. 90 degrees is the threshold for "HOT" not low temps in the 70s or 80s or whatever. And last I checked Boston isn't in our region.

where's this coming from? That thing isn't even a tropical storm anymore

Yeah I mean it happened in NJ but nowhere east of there. Someone said this summer was hotter than 1999 and drier-- no way the whole area was over 100 in 1999 and much drier-- we had a major drought until Floyd hit. 1999 had the hottest month on record in July 1999 until July 2010 came along and 20 90 degree days in that month alone! This was a moderately hot and dry summer.

Damn almost made it through all of met summer without significant rainfall. Well at least we did it through all of astro summer. The weird thing is even with all this dryness and heat we still didn't hit 100 anywhere this summer except for EWR. I wonder why that is-- it's said that you need a dry summer to get to 100. You can even get there if the sea breeze comes in later in the day because the dry weather causes the temps to rise much faster in the morning-- I've seen it hit 100 here as early as 11 AM in such scenarios.

I loved how the sun came out in the middle of the day lol. Was that the "eye" of the storm haha?

What's causing all this early season cold weather Don and what are its implications on the winter?

That came really early in the morning. The sun was out during the late morning to mid day hours. When was the last time JFK had an inch or more of rainfall?

Extremely windy tonight!

It will be over $100 billion

Question is when will people learn the lessons these storms are trying to teach us?

It really is splitting hairs though. I find it ridiculous that 157 mph is considered minimum for Cat 5 when the information is output in 5 mph increments. 111 mph for Cat 3 is even worse. We should just use multiple of 10s for categories.

-BRIGHT- sunshine here now! Yay the baseball games WILL be played!

Looks like the sun is trying to break out yay! Don, when was JFK's last 1" rainfall?

and 100 heat index!

the classic pattern for a cold and snowy winter is average September- cold October- mild November- cold December and then cold through Marchand sometimes even April.

This is why artificial aerosol injections are seen as a way to stop climate change.

Do you realize all those winters were extremely boring outside of 1977-78 don't you?

What exactly is causing this rare consistent cold pattern this time of year? Some random typhoon recurvature?

And if you catch HR number 62 you could be a millionaire!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678524/ And here is a presentation for why processed red meat increases cancer risks by 30% or more (specifically colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer.)

You see this in spring too, snow at nearly 50 degrees surface temp

Yes that's entirely on them. And when these storms come and they need to evacuate-- they're on their own. If they stay behind they're responsible for whatever happens too.