LibertyBell

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.

I would say that ordinarily we would expect at least 15 90 degree days to have a monthly average of 80, I sure hope this isn't a case of warmer mins driving the avg temp rise instead of actual heat- as in, highs of 90 or higher.

Something that I use for more tangible shifts....how are we looking in terms of 90 degree highs per period? and has there also been an increase of 100 degree days or is the sample size too small to make a call on that?

Indeed and it's hard to believe it happened in May! I see it's hard to believe for you too since you wrote April above haha. So it's comparable to the extreme outbreak of April 1982? How low did it get in the May 1977 outbreak, was that around 34 too or did it get down to 32? I can count the number of times I remember it getting into the 30s in May here on one hand. One other prominent one I remember was in May 1992, do you remember that one, Chris? JFK got down to 37 and snow showers were reported in Morristown. That also resulted in a very cool and rainy summer likely because of the Pinatubo eruption. There were only 2 or 3 90 degree days that summer, tied for the record lowest, which I think was also tied in 1996 (which also had a cold outbreak in May with severe wx turning to 1-3 inches of snow and fallen trees in the Poconos on the 12th and a heavy frost on the 14th when had got back home to Long Island, with a low of 33.) That summer was entirely different though very humid and cloudy and high mins but very few 90 degree days. The summer of 1992 was sandwiched between two record setting hot summers though, 1991 and 1993, both of which tied the record for most 90 degree days in NYC at 39 (this was before the foliage growth lol). The record should've been broken in 2010...... And we had the extreme winter of 1993-94 with all the ice and snow events and record subzero cold, which was also connected to Pinatubo, but if that's the case how did we get a record hot summer in 1993?

Looks like 66 MPH Eatons Neck in Suffolk County was the top wind report, was there a rainfall and/or hail report issued too?

there were two big squalls with blinding rain and hail here in SW Nassau, one around 1 PM and the other right at sunset, my house was shaking, they must've been around 60 MPH, were winds that high recorded at JFK and how much rain/hail was recorded?

were you in the same MJO pattern last May when we had that big cool down and the snow showers?

I wonder how temps will be compared to the same time last year when we had that cold shot and some snow showers?

sounds like a lesser version of last May. I wonder if we'll see something again around the 8-9-10 like we had last year and back in 1977

But 1977 did have that historic cold shot and snowstorm, are you seeing a noreaster for May?

JFK 20? ABE 15?

thats awesome 61 mph, anything out of JFK? and rainfall amounts and /or hail? we had two heavy rain squalls with hail here

could you have driven towards it to see what it was? looks intriguing

had another heavy rain squall and hail right around sunset, so scored 2 for the day

think we can get to the 30s?

why wouldnt there be a secondary maximum over the coastal regions, which are flat? I thought it was puzzling the High Wind Warning was to our west.

why are they predicting stronger winds in NJ and PA? They have a High Wind Warning there, usually the coast has the strongest winds because it's flat land.

There was hail and very heavy rain here for a period, like 2 Sundays ago, and a weird pungent smell of rain I haven't smelt in awhile

wow I see 32 right near my Poconos home

how close will freezing temps and snow showers get to us tonight, Don? NE PA?

Most of that must be March, April has only been slightly warm.