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it's much cooler, like early fall, I have my space heater on today

I actually turned on my space heater today

It's very scary, like a line of fog that's quickly approaching.

It does sound Italian....

you guys share the same gods too (I mean the ancient cultures in each group of course lol), the Romans just changed the names lol

ugh the state Mesonet is too coarse, they have one station in Nassau County and it's in Wantagh and I might as well use FRG lol. I'm like 15 miles west of there.

It's also interesting talking about previous historic records (both hot and cold, both snowy and rainy) and instrument relocations, it gives a lot of context to what's going on.

woah you can probably even see a snow squall wall headed towards you, those can be truly epic, I've seen a few of them on I-80 in NJ and PA. And the associated traffic jams lol. The jams might be a good thing in snow squalls though, you really want to slow down in them.

That makes my skin crawl, even though I know we need them lol. Just not inside my house =\

Yep, this is the case in many other countries too and it's driving the pollinator mass extinction.

JFK ISP batting shut outs for 90 degree days in August. I've had 1 (last Thursday) How is ACY getting shut out of 90 degree days in August, that's very unusual! They might end the month with zero 90 degree days if Sunday doesn't pan out, has that ever happened before?

September is still summer and can be quite hot. Our seasons are more closely in line with astronomy than these bogus *Met seasons*

has the sun come out yet by you-- it's playing hide and seek today lol

Yea that would have been truly awful, even if it had weakened down to a Cat 2 or something and hit the outer banks, like that one storm did a few years ago after devastating the Bahamas as a Cat 5. That was progged to hit Florida at one point.

Congrats Ant, have you picked a name yet?

His new avatar seems to show the Mets are on fire lol

If we had this kind of thing in summers like 1993, 2010, etc, do you think they would have recorded even more 90/95/100 degree days?

You don't even need to get that far into the interior on many of these sea breeze days, I'm a few miles south of Sunrise Highway (but also a few miles north of the ocean), and it often doesn't get here until after 3-4 pm. I'm a little suspicious of 6-7 days of 100+ lol, the summer hasn't been hot enough to do that (1993 and 2010 were wall to wall heat.) Wait, are you sure EWR has had 7 days of 100+ Chris? I thought they only had 4. They're still behind 1949 and 1993 but now it's getting close.

There was a zero chance of that ever coming here, but I love seeing Cat 5's in the middle of the ocean not affecting anyone.

Unfortunately, I'm not in Queens, I'm in Nassau County so there's no way to do that here, do you know if they are planning on expanding the micronet to Nassau County? Lots of us exceeded JFK's 102 degrees in late June. I remember the sea breeze made it there and then got stuck there before backing off lol.

Don could you run the numbers for 1949 and 1944 at NYC too with this new weighting system you're using? They seem like they are very close (1949 is 9th and 1944 is 10th), if you used your new weighting system would 1944 leapfrog over 1949? August 1944 had so many heat records that still stand to this day. It would be interesting to see how summers rank in terms of record highs and let's bring September into the mix. For either NYC or JFK (or both) can summers be ranked in terms of most record daily high temperatures in JJAS?

You're probably right, I recorded 90 on Thursday and I'm 5 miles east of JFK, while the airport was stuck at 85 (not just that day but the entire week.)

so wild so many changes and yet there were no changes between 1948 and 1991 Chris, what made them make all these changes, they should have left it at the 1948 location, this makes the data not look so comparable.... and what was its original location, can that be plotted on a map? It lists its 1948 location as 0 of PO lol Is the present location near Rockaway Parkway, that runs right along the east side of the airport? I can definitely confirm that my readings were much more in line with JFK prior to 1995. Since then, I'm usually a few degrees hotter in the summer. 2010 was the one exception, it makes me wonder how many 90/95/100 days JFK would have recorded in 2010 at the old location lol? PS it's hotter even east of JFK on Long Island, as long as you get away from that Bay....

Records:Highs:EWR: 99 (1944)NYC: 95 (2015)LGA: 94 (1944)JFK: 94 (1978) 1944 endless summer continued.... PS Tony, I thought the NYC record high for today was 96 set in 1944-- or was that for yesterday?

I like Don's idea of using 1951-1980 climate norms, because it fits in with what a lot of us grew up with. PS it's ALL really interesting, not just temperature trends but dew point and precipitation trends too. I really hate high humidity, but it's still interesting to talk about. You can hate something and still find the discussion on it interesting.