LibertyBell

lol you should have seen the NOAA assistant director during his interview trying to make it seem the budget cuts won't have an effect

if it doesn't make it to 100 the pain isn't worth it.

they should just let wunderground run all their stuff

I hope she's in a/c It made it to 93 here but it's leveled off since.

92 here now too

it's already up to 92 here at noon

they'll come in before that, probably by 4 pm and end by 6 pm

and you'll add three more with the heatwave next week, Tuesday might be hotter than today (with no rain and maybe not even any clouds).

Yeah around 1 inch of rain per week (preferably at night) is probably ideal.

Looks like high temperatures will be at around 3 pm before a sharp drop off with the rain coming in by 4.

Check out July 5, 1999 when we had a temperature of 102 and a dew point of 45 here lol

Looks like rain will be moving in around 4 pm and last through about 6 pm, there will be a sharp 10 degree temperature drop between 3 and 4 when it comes in.

I just saw a live video of the Manhattan skyline, why does it look so POLLUTED and SMOGGY?? Is it because of trapped pollutants from car fuel exhaust?? Barely any visibility in the video I saw, meanwhile 25 miles to the east over here it's a very clear and deep blue sky with zero haze.

are there power outages or something? what causes the intrahour issues? I think they missed a 90 degree reading in there, we hit 90 here a few days ago at 4:04 pm and JFK didn't catch it.

94-98 is the range I would go with and that's pretty good (and close to our July max of 95 which we hit earlier in the month.)

The only thing that interrupted that heatwave was a 3.25 inch deluge on Day 3, I wonder what kind of storm that was? That was almost a 15 day heatwave if you count the 89 the day before it started.

wow it shows that even low to mid 90s can be deadly, the length of that heatwave might be what made it so deadly. It's not on the list of longest NYC heatwaves though. Why was that heatwave in 1972 more deadly than the two longer and more extreme heatwaves in 1999 though? 1999 was second only to 1953 in heatwave length and extremes.

Oh nice I am going with this classification too. Hot is like a SECS (4-8 inches of snow) Strong heat is like a MECS (8 to 15 inches of snow) Extreme heat is like a HECS (16 to 29 inches of snow) Inferno is like a BECS (30 inches of snow plus) I would adjust strong heat to 95-99 and extreme heat to 100-104 though

Yes, around here it's only been 5 days, we got about 30 minutes of a very heavy rain shower on the night of 7/20.... do you have the JFK total from that night Tony?

are we sure today's going to be all that hot? it's not even in the mid 80s here yet and the sky is a deep blue kind of clear sky, no haze like we usually see on very hot days and the temperatures are not rising quickly like they did in late June at this time.

Wild, the endless heat of 1936, 1999 and 2010 continued ..... 2010: The 105 °F recorded at the Richmond International Airport on the 24th and 25th also ties the highest maximum temperature ever recorded in July in Richmond. The high of 105 °F and low of 79 °F on these two dates yields a daily average temp of 92.0 °F which breaks the all-time daily mean temp of 91.5. Thus making these two dates the hottest days ever recorded in the past 113 years for Richmond. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) This highest temperature ever recorded for July of 105 °F has occurred on two other dates. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC)On the 25th, damaging straight line thunderstorm winds with widespread gusts 60-75 mph and isolated gusts to 90 mph across parts of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties in Virginia and Montgomery, northern Prince Georges, Ann Arundel and Charles counties in Maryland and in Washington, DC. The storm resulted in 3 deaths from wind and one from lightning, widespread damage from downed trees and power lines, and loss of power to more than 300,000 customers. Highs: EWR: 99 (2016) one of only 2 days in Jul with record highs not 100 or higher NYC: 97 (1999) LGA: 97 (1999) JFK: 93 (2010) New Brunswck: 98 (2010)

Yeah we really don't get the kind of droughts here that they get in California and other places out west. I don't think we can go more than 6-7 days without rain here in the summer anymore. We might get a lot of rain at once, which isn't good either.

We might need another volcanic eruption like Pinatubo in 1992 to get a cool summer like that again. If it wasn't for Pinatubo we would have had a 5 year hot summer streak from 1991-1995. I remember in 1990 and 1991 we were talking about how historically hot it was in NYC, 23 out of 24 months above normal and record world heat at that time (average global temperature over 57 degrees for both years.)

Having 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, one right after the other was pretty wild too-- the only interruption was 1992 and that was because of Pinatubo erupting.

Wasn't the summer of 1984 much cooler than the historic summer of 1983 (my first summer on Long Island, after we moved from Brooklyn in November of 1982, my two benchmark Long Island events were the February 1983 Blizzard and the historic Summer of 1983.)