LibertyBell

2002 wow and that was a really hot summer (hot and dry, which we need to get extremes like this.)

I think it has happened in August before, though I don't remember what year-- maybe 1993?

I'm confused I thought he loved cold weather lol. I like short heatwaves with breaks in between of weather like we have now.

it depends on how it's communicated. If a change in the weather exposes a weak immune system then it's possible. Generally speaking, viral infections are more contagious in cold and dry weather because virus particles stay in the air longer. Conversely bacterial infections are more common in the summer because bacteria love warm and humid weather.

unfortunately it also means less extremely hot days so our climate is becoming compressed to higher mins and less high temperatures of 95/100 or more. 1949 must have had lower low temperatures to balance out the 8 high temperatures of 100+ at EWR and 5 high temperatures of 99+ at NYC.

What I see on the hourlies is that the sun comes back out at 2 PM and thats when the temperature spike occurs. As a matter of fact they have me completely clear at 5 PM. Tomorrow looks like the really cool day and cloudy all day with a high of 72. It's 76 here now with a forecasted high of 81 here. Sunday looks to be partly sunny here now and no rain at all and a high of 86.

I think 1993 and 1999 were in drought patterns too weren't they Chris? We had much drier summers back then. July 1999 was one of the hottest months I have ever experienced. July 1993 right up there too.

it could have reached 99.5 at least in between hours.

Maybe this will cycle back to more 40s-60s type long heatwaves? If not that, maybe a 1993 or 1999 type heatwave (which is still relatively recent), 1999 had two very long super heatwaves and the one extreme heatwave in 1993 really stands out.

I think this week demonstrated that Long Island can be just as hot as New Jersey if the ridge is strong enough. This intense heat was like what we had in 2011. The heat we have had since then wasn't strong enough to overcome the ocean like this one was. 1988 the heat wasn't nearly as intense as what we had in 1993 or 1999 or 2010 or 2011 or what we just had now.

But less heat for us on the coast in 1988? 1999 was much hotter here

10 consecutive 100 degree days? do you think it's possible here?

those droughts are why the summers of 1953 and 1966 have never been matched for 100+ heat

the really hot summers began with 1944, the 1944s and 1950s were a cut above everything that happened before and since. And a few of the 1960s, like 1966, has never been matched.

it's mostly minimum driven, the highs and lows have become compressed

August 26-28 had an extreme 3 day 100+ heatwave though

post August 20th 100 degree heat is very rare which is why the super heatwave in August 1948 and August - September 1953 are so notable. As is the August 20, 1983 100 degrees at JFK and the 99 on September 11, 1983.

Thanks Don, I got some clarity on this page (it coincides with the 2 straight 100+ days that happened at JFK during the same period. https://www.weather.gov/okx/100degreedays The only two periods of three consecutive 100+ days at NYC were in 1948 and 1993. Both times JFK had two consecutive 100+ days. NYC has had multiple separate heatwaves that peaked at 100+ on a few occasions. 1944 (two heatwaves in August), 1949 (once in July once in August), 1953 (July and August-September), 1954 (two heatwaves in July), 1955 (one in July and one in August), 1966 (a whopping three separate heatwaves that peaked at 100+, one in June and two in July). And that was the last previous time it happened, NYC has not had multiple heatwaves peak at 100+ since the 3 heatwaves that did it in 1966. More recently, JFK had two heatwaves peak at 100+ in 1983 (one in July and one in August and another one that peaked at 99 in September.) That was the only time they had that.

we're so used to cloudy / rainy weekends, today feels like a Saturday

now 74 here, it's dropping slowly but the best thing is that wind is cooling down my house.

1955 and 1999 had drought busting tropical events ..... 1999 really stands out to me as the entire summer was scorching hot (the entire month of July) and droughty and then Floyd came calling in mid September and dropped over 10 inches of rain in NJ and eastern PA. The longevity of the 1999 and 1993 super heatwaves are the only ones that challenge 1953.

The intensity of this heat does remind me of 2011 (the only other summer with multiple 102+ days at JFK), except a month earlier than that extreme heatwave. Do you think if this had happened in late July it would have been even hotter and do you see a heavy rainfall month like what happened in 2011 after that extreme heatwave to repeat itself? If it's going to occur a month earlier, just like the big heat did, it would happen in July instead of in August.

wow you dropped way faster, it was still 81 when I woke up this morning, now down to 76 here. I'm keeping the a/c on until it drops into the 60s.

1948 had a wildly hot summer, if I remember correctly from what I read NYC had 3 100+ days (consecutively in July) and JFK had 2 100+ days (consecutively in August). JFK may have hit 100+ in July too, but their period of record only began at the end of July so they didn't record that earlier heatwave in which NYC hit 100+ 3 days in a row?

So 1983 was the only time that JFK had multiple 2 separate heatwaves that peaked at 100+ I think NYC had two such heatwaves in both 1948 and 1966. Also in 1953 which had 4 total 100+ days at NYC evenly split between two heatwaves.