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?