LibertyBell

I love that, sounds like some of our best summers from the 50s that had two two 100+ degree heatwaves like 1953 and the famous one from 1966 that had three separate 100+ degree heatwaves. More recently, JFK had two 100+ degree heatwaves in 1983.

this is absolutely excellent, I remember when they hit 40C there, that was a landmark day.

if they change, it would be good if the rain held off until Monday.

it had its moments, it was really good with January 2016.

I'm going to be a little harsher. Why should Central Park be the official weather reporting site for New York City? It does not represent New York City climate in any way shape or form. The NWS needs to get off its high horse and realize no one cares what it was like in the 1800s (the only reason Central Park gets a level of importance from them it does not deserve is because it recorded weather from an earlier and more primitive era.) I say demote it to a lower level reporting station and don't report its data to the public at all. It no longer has any relevance to today's climate, let alone the city, in any way shape or form. And remove the KNYC designation from it so it does not get confused with New York City. It's not an airport and it doesn't need nor should it be allowed to have an airport code. I really wish some politician cared enough about the weather and climate to overrule the NWS and do all this, it's about time it happened.

at least we'll have that for Sunday

Likewise, I remember how cool 1986 was not just in July, but also in August, very clear haze free cool skies for my very first Perseid meteor shower (four straight nights in mid August) !!!!

All the great ones really stand out, Don !! Does this mean to have a historic summer you need a hot fourth of July weekend (or sometime during that week or shortly thereafter) ?? Look at all these wonderful summers in the above chart: 1949, 1966, 1999, 2002, 2010 !!

I remember a really big one in June in 1995 that might have been it. Happened at night and we had small hail and very heavy rain.

Damn I was gone that summer too. I stayed for all the really hot summers (1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002). I was also here for the rainy summers of 1992 and 1996=\ Not here in July and August in 1990, 1994, 1997, 1998.

I don't remember it because I was out of the country when it happened lol. I left on a flight the day after the peak of the heat in 1994, I remember it hit 98 and I was gone the next day, wondering if I was going to miss 100 degree heat. When I came back I found out it didn't hit 100 here while I was away lol. So 1994 didn't measure up to the greatness of 1993 (which gave me a sense of relief.)

Was that the same year we had a big hailstorm in July? in 1994 I went overseas near the end of June and didn't come back until August, but when I came back I remember reading newspaper reports about a big damaging hailstorm that hit the south shore of Nassau county and destroyed a bunch of cars outside a car dealership. At least I think that was the year. But the reports stated hailstones up to 5 inches in size, which I don't think is possible here. Still, I was sad that I missed it. Maybe it happened during this late June storm, although from what I read, I thought it was in July.

what is the cause of the connection though? what is it about the sun that would influence the atlantic ocean so much? and does it influence the pacific as much too?

looks like the kind of heat we just had comes back after July 8th, Tony??

I don't know what a *washout* means (and why do tv mets use this word so much?) but to me a few hours of rain and cloudy all day is a washout. Sunday is much better with no rain and some sunshine.

Same here, my walls were so hot I almost burned my hands touching them, I had to run the a/c all night to fully get all the heat out and turned it off when I woke up at 7 am this morning

Damn I don't remember it but it probably helps it was on the last day of the month. The SST must've been over 70 by then 1994 heat was the hottest June weather I've ever seen (until this year that is.)

This really is a nice day, I finally turned my a/c off this morning. That's how long it took to get all the heat out of my house.

lol well I guess we did have some things.... especially considering nukes had already been created.

If you want whats healthy and better for the planet (and for us) it's to have way fewer people on it. You want no part of densely packed urban centers either, especially not the kinds I saw in Asia. For mental and physical health it's good to be closer to nature to smell flowers and trees during the day and to actually see the stars at night, I see this myself when I go to the Poconos vs living near the city. And I get a full night of deep sleep 8 hours there which I never get here. Sleep's importance for all types of health is extremely understated. AND DID YOU KNOW LIGHT POLLUTION INCREASES THE RISKS OF CANCER 30-50% (per a Harvard study.) It's good that we're greening the city up with urban farms, but at some point if we don't control our population ourselves, nature will do it for us and in some very unpleasant ways. Can't beat the math.

exactly, the whole idea of cities came from greedy oligarchs, pen the *unwashed* into tiny cramped kennels like animals (who also should not be housed that way.) Humans should live as close to nature as possible.

Records: Highs: EWR: 101 (1966) NYC: 101 (1966) LGA: 97 (2003) JFK: 98 (1963) it's truly amazing how hot 1966 was, this was just the first of THREE TRIPLE DIGIT HEATWAVES !!!

fake 1 am highs with daylight time lmao you know when the *day* should begin? at sunrise....

our severe season is typically in August and beyond with warmer SST, June heatwaves typically end with backdoor fronts, we saw this in 1988 and 1994 too.

In a word YES, and no we don't want tightly packed cities or McMansions (whatever that is). Tightly packed cities are not healthy and you know what else isn't healthy? 8 billion people on the planet. So not tightly packed cities or endless suburbs, what we actually need (and what will happen) is a population crash. I've been in some tightly packed cities in Asia and trust me you want no part of THAT