LibertyBell

Remember August 2011?? After it hit 103 and 102 on back to back days on July 22 and July 23 2011 at JFK, we had 10 inches of rain on August 14 2011; this was 2 weeks before Irene. A Saturday all day heavy rain!! The SST peaked in the low 80s because of all that heat, around 83 degrees.

Greening the city is a really good idea with multiple health benefits (not just cooler temperatures but reducing air pollution by serving as air filters too.)

yep and even Florida is hitting 100 more often now-- Tampa hit 100 for the first time ever and a record setting 113 heat index too.

well now that we know that Tampa can hit 100 degrees I guess we can too. I read they just had their highest ever heat index of 113 too.

Normally, you'd want some winds at night. The winds aid in evaporative cooling off your skin to make you feel cooler.

It got to 97 here on a southerly wind, my hottest of the month

The really interesting thing is they are always considerably hotter than the rest of us and even exceed Philadelphia in 90 and 100 degree highs. Sometimes JFK is tied with them in heat on a downsloping wind, but they're usually ahead of everyone else even then. 1993 was a case in point, 9 100+ degree days at EWR, 3 100+ degree days at NYC, and 2 100+ degree days at JFK and this was before the ASOS and/or siting issues. And I read that the siting isn't as much of an issue with Central Park, as is the switch to ASOS. Why did we switch to ASOS in the first place? I liked what we had before it was much more accurate (with temperatures and wind speeds and precipitation type.)

JFK still well behind its 10 set in 2010.

I mean the local furnaces made it that high, but I have a strong feeling that in summers past (like 1991, 1993, 1999, etc.) places like Corona Queens were regularly over 100 degrees. Places like that probably hit 100 degrees at least once every summer. The peak was 103-106 in June, but more like 97-101 in July. The lower sun angle might have more to do with it, as it hasn't been rained here much.

It had to be hotter than this in June, unless you mean just the barrier islands, I dont know the temperatures there but in Far Rockaway, Oceanside, Island Park, Freeport, etc, all these coastal towns were well over 100 degrees in June for 2 days.

thats amazing you hit 100 in Suffolk County yesterday (and 99 today although I thought today was hotter lol.)

Looks like EWR reached 101 again Don

Yep it actually ended up being my hottest day of the entire month at 97 (third hottest for the year). JFK hit 95, so that's 3 straight days of 95+ for them. Ditto for NYC.

no sea breeze at all today and no clouds either for that matter what happened to that front thats supposed to make it rain from 5-7 pm lol

But it's inland and much hotter than anyone in the city and here of course. a SSW wind is a humid flow but not that hot.

This is like a lower scale version of that extreme heatwave lol

Looks like the rain comes in around 5 PM with a 20 degree temperature drop at that time lol

wow huge change in 95+ days at both LGA and EWR and a significant change in 80+ lows at LGA!!!

Now up to 97 here, the third hottest temperature of the year (after the 100+ readings in June) and the hottest in July so far!!! Not only are there no clouds today there's no sea breeze either!!!

Yes, I saw the NWS put out a video about it. I wonder if there's a way to find out what the WBGT was in some of our bigger heatwaves (including this one and the one back in June). It also reminds me of the newer EF scale for tornadoes.

Does WBGT give a *this is what this temperature feels like to an average person* kind of reading? From what I saw, it was an index that goes up to 90? It's a little different.

Yes it factors in sun angle, wind speed and amount of cloudiness too. It can be directly measured with instruments.

I just looked through your graphs and it looks like 1949 was really hot too (mins even higher than 1983 and the maxes were right behind 1983), you shared the graph for 1983, what was going on in 1949 that made it so hot?

Yes this strong signal from so far away makes it more concerning.

Now I noticed a few more things-- 1949 (JFK's second year of history) was the only July that averaged 85+ degrees for the max until July 1983, talk about a predictor for summers to come!! It's still in the top 10 (9th place) and 1983 is still in 3rd place!! for *feels like* 1983 is in 4th place behind the three I had already mentioned and 1949 is just behind it in 7th place!! for mins 1949 is even hotter than 1983?? Neither of them are in the top 5 but both are in the top 10 of all Julys, number 9 and number 10 actually!!