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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.

I want cold weather restricted to winter, I remember shivering in a lot of cold Octobers back in the 80s and 90s. I guess we each like our own thing, but having warmer Falls really saves on heating costs.

True and I've experienced this myself, I hit 90 on Thursday while JFK was somehow stuck at 85 (this entire week). I was wondering how that could happen, I guess the sea breeze takes longer to reach here even though I'm 5 miles east of the airport?

Ant, are you going to have a party to celebrate the occasion?

17 90+ days in 2022, was that more than JFK had that year Chris??

looks like we are on our way to a cool AND dry month which is rare around here but especially so during the summer....

wow 15 is the same as the number of 90 degree days at JFK, why is the number of 90 degree days increasing more rapidly there when 1) it's further north and 2) it has a south facing coast just like we do down here?

ah I see where the variance comes in... Don I think you should also weigh number of 95 degree days, number of 100 degree days and length of maximum heatwave. 1995 only had the one 102 degree day while 1993 had an absolutely incredible 100-101-102 three day stretch in the middle of a 10 day super heatwave lol.

is the rise also slower for SNE (like places in CT near the shoreline) Chris? I was amazed that Bridgeport had a higher temperature than JFK the other day, I thought they were more vulnerable to the sea breeze there. When do you think 100 degree temperatures at JFK might start to happen more often, like they did in the 1940s and 1950s up to 1966 Chris?

wow I'm really surprised 1995 ranks above 1993, 1993 had the more extreme heatwave and set the 90 degree record at NYC

cicadas?

That sounds stunning and absolutely amazing, did you get to see a rainbow too? I had a similar situation on July 3rd and captured a stunning double rainbow with purple skies. That almost happened with this storm, but the sky was too dark and the beginnings of the rainbow looked pale and almost a light pink color against the purple skies.

wow JFK is very different from here, I finally hit 90 yesterday at 3 pm for the first time this week!

Thanks Don, I figured as much, 1948 was not very hot outside of that extreme heatwave near the end of August (I wonder why it happened, there must have been some very anomalous pattern in place. The only other time NYC had three 100+ days in a row was in 1993 and that was a hot summer from beginning to end, very different from 1948.) Don, when you have some time could you do a chart like this for NYC too? I think the top summers would be 2010, 1993, 1953, 1949 and 1983.