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but 37 at JFK? also what date was that and what was the high? do you have anything from there for May 14, 1996?

lol did you get a load of the 20th- 48 hi 46 lo .....must be a cold windy rainy day.....44 is the low the following night. Well at least next weekend is awesome, with highs in the upper 70s and sunny I'd assume.

any idea why this keeps happening in May? It seems like this has become way more common since about 2010

although I do agree about lack of intelligent life on this planet lol. To be honest some animals seem to be far more intelligent and empathetic than most humans. I found this endearing. It has taken animal behavioral scientists decades to realize animals have intelligence, feelings, sentience and empathy. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animal-odd-couples-meet-the-odd-couples/8025/ Charlie and Jack Jack, a 16-year-old goat, formed an touching relationship with Charlie, a blind 40-year-old horse. Jack essentially became Charlie’s eyes, and would lead him around the ranch property where they both lived. the full story about Jack and Charlie and what amazes me is that the horse was first blind in only one eye and the goat knew it and he would adjust his walk to walk on one side so he wouldnt block the horse's good eye later on when the horse became blind in both eyes he walked dead center to guide him straight to the food and after the horse passed away the goat would go there by himself and not eat just stand there contemplating about his old friend when the goat passed away he was buried right next to his best friend

No it did not. The original earth was way too toxic for life, it was vastly different than the planet we have today. It took 2 billion years for the first unicellular life to develop (the planet is 4.6 billion years old) and those were methanogens (cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae) and those were needed before anything else could evolve because they are the ones who set the changes into motion that we needed to get more complex life. We didn't even have multicellular life for billions of years after that, let alone intelligent life. https://lco.global/spacebook/astrobiology/when-did-life-develop-and-what-were-conditions-early-earth/#:~:text=Some scientists claim life developed,recycled into the Earth's crust. The first irrefutable examples of life on Earth arose around 2.7 billion years ago. Some scientists claim life developed as long ago as 3.5 billion years. This is difficult to study and even more difficult to prove or disprove because rocks on Earth are weathered and recycled into the Earth’s crust. Rocks from so long ago are very difficult to find and only a few have been discovered. The early Earth’s atmosphere had a very low concentration of oxygen compared to today. 2.4 billion years ago, the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere was less than one part per billion and the iron concentration in the ocean was much higher than today. Starting 3 billion years ago and lasting for at least a billion years, soluble iron (Fe2+) in the ocean collected any freely available oxygen, and formed ferric iron (Fe3+) which is a solid, also known as rust. Eventually most of the iron in the oceans was depleted and the oxygen level in the atmosphere and in the water began to slowly increase. After about a billion years, the oxygen level had reached a few percent of the total atmospheric pressure. Then about 500 million years ago, there was a relatively rapid increase in the atmospheric oxygen content. This began when an ancient relative of cyanobacteria evolved the ability to use sunlight and water for photosynthesis, creating oxygen as a by-product. Over the next few hundred million years, the oxygen content in the atmosphere rose to nearly its current value of 18%. Until this development, all life on Earth must have existed either under at least several centimeters of water or underground. The ozone layer, which blocks most of the damaging ultraviolet light from the Sun, did not exist, so any organism on the surface of the Earth would have been killed by the ultraviolet light. As the oxygen content of the atmosphere increased, the ozone layer formed and began to shield the surface of the Earth from the harmful ultraviolet light. This allowed life forms to evolve to survive on the surface of the oceans and on land, and also allowed organisms who metabolize oxygen (like us!) to develop.

I think Sandy caused $60 billion in damage.

I think you mean 1938 not 1983

wow can you recheck that please....I thought we got down into the 30s in May 1992, not sure of the day.....but I remember the low was 39 in NYC and 37 at JFK (and 36 here just east of JFK) It was cloudy as I recall it with temps in the 40s for most of the day and even snow flurries in Morristown. May 1996 we had a heavy frost here on Long Island on the 14th (Monday morning), and a low of 33-34. Had 1-3 inches of snow in the Poconos after severe wx and a frontal passage, some trees snapped and came down during the snow.

Lots of amazing stuff being done to eliminate the food deserts in NYC.

why does this kind of weather still even exist in May? I want global temps to warm by 10C so this is gone forever.

No I'm talking about greenery on top of buildings and the community gardens and urban farming are actually places in Queens and the Bronx where people are growing their own food to get away from the processed crap that passes for "food" these days. https://www.nybg.org/gardens/bronx-green-up/urban-farming-community-gardening/ Thanks to things like this, people never have to eat diabetes and obesity causing crap anymore.

with all the technology and chemicals we have how come we haven't discovered something that blocks the production of pollen? this much is a health hazard even if we could only block just 50% of it, that would be great

I wonder how cold tomorrow will be

Lake Mead wont be able to provide water after a few more years....it'll probably happen by 2030.

Thanks, when will we get to the point where cloud cover wont matter and warming will accelerate to the point that we'll have several 100 degree days each year? I heard that might happen by 2050 and we'll have an Atlanta type of climate by then. At some point carbon dioxide and methane forcing will break the cap that clouding provides and we'll enter new territory.

we're doing green in NYC too. Glad to see it, get rid of that concrete crap and replace it with community gardens for healthier food in the food deserts too. I heard we have 65 bee farms in Manhattan, bees are doing well here because of the lack of pesticides.

Chris, can you do one for monthly rainfall patterns? That would be interesting to see too. Also can you a break down, monthly avg maxes vs monthly avg mins? Thanks!

Don, interesting that the average of the 3 analogs that had a warm last week of May were warmer at NYC than they were at PHL. And the only one of the 4 that was cooler still hit 90 in May! How is it possible for a week that has a 90 degree temp in May to end up below normal? And do you think we might get our first 90 before May ends?

That is wild, maybe we need to use EWR or :LGA more now. LGA had nearly 50 90 degree days in 2010, I always use that as the benchmark for summer heat. Thanks so much for this list! Can you please add Allentown and Mount Pocono too? I want to make a comparison between my two locations. Wild that NYC is the only one that has gone down in 90 degree days, even JFK has stayed steady. Wild how NYC and LGA have gone in completely different directions. Wouldn't it be amazing if in the future JFK exceeds NYC's 90 degree days on average lol?

70s and sunny would be ideal, low humidity too

What I find so amazing is how many things needed to go just right to develop life on this planet. Having an oversized moon not the least of it.

For much of our planet's history it was uninhabitable. Not only that the atmospheric composition was entirely different.

Maybe thats why they are complaining lol

Not having a lot of rain and low humidity levels has been great in keeping my allergies down. Maybe we'll finally hit 100 here if it's dry enough. I miss those summers. This is the first spring I can remember in years when I didn't have to take any allergy medication. I think the last time this was the case was when my dad was alive, which would be 2014.

Wow this is interesting- Allentown has been averaging more 90 degree days than NYC/ Don both of those summers you mentioned were hot but not extreme, I don't believe either had any 100 degree days here and neither was among the top for number of 90 degree days? They were just consistently very warm to hot without being extreme. 1988 could have been but the extreme heat was to our west, and Long Island and the city didn't reach 100 like they did in years like 1977, 1980, 1983, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2010, 2011, for example.