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Chris, is this what happened in 1936 and 1995 too? So basically the maximum heat was off to our west, but both years, in July we had a short time when we were under the tongue of max heat and exceeded 100 degrees. This sounds like the summer equivalent of a strengthening low pressure getting too close to us and changing snow over to rain because of an onshore push- are they equivalent?

what about queens nassau border (southern part)

Don could this also happen because of a heat ridge being further to the north? The way I was picturing it, with a clockwise flow around high pressure, and hot high pressure displaced further north and closer to our latitude, we get more of a southerly component to our wind while areas north of us get the hotter more westerly wind. For us to get that kind of wind the heat ridge would need to be over North Carolina or Virginia in which case we'd be getting the westerly downsloping winds (look at the megaheatwaves in early July 1993, July 1999 and July 2010 and this is what happened.)

thats a good point, I was trying to picture what causes Boston to have a westerly wind while we have more of a southerly wind. I've been seeing this more and more in our recent summers and it seems to be geometrically more likely with a further north heat ridge. So with the heat ridge further north and closer to our latitude it gives us a southerly component to the wind while north of us gets the westerly wind.

thats a weirdly low temp but we stayed in the mid 80s today on the south shore after hitting 90 and 93 over the weekend.

whats causing the heat to go north of us? one would logically think that heat goes from south to north and therefore has to pass through us before it can get north of us?

Don how does Boston get so hot on an onshore wind, they were warmer than Newark?

It isn't as simple as that though, airline companies are now using carbon offsets and also developing fuels that release much less CO2. I look forward to the day when we will all be in electric or solar powered planes

2010 was our hottest summer on record, beating out 1966!

Indeed, it's been on since 2 PM Saturday lol. Hit 90 on Saturday and 93 today. I think all the densely packed buildings block the sea breeze from getting here until after 2:30 PM lol.

It was a lot hotter today than it was yesterday (by 3 degrees).

It was 93 here on the south shore of western Nassau at 1:40 PM. I think the dense buildings block the sea breeze here lol, it was the hottest day of the year so far.

We hit 93 here in SW Nassau....did JFK make it to 90? Our high was at 1:40 PM.....this was our hottest day of the year so far.

I remember August 2011 well, that rain would never stop falling! And then we had Irene on top of that! We came close to October 2005 rainfall totals that month!

I remember it was even in the early 90s in the first part of September! There are a couple of hot summers that don't get mentioned too often and aren't part of the 11 yr cycle that I was wondering if you could look into, Tony. 1980.....from June through September must've been one of our hottest on record with consistent 90s and I think hit 100 once? The other one is 1983, a record wet year but still extremely hot and humid with one 100 degree reading also, and had the record for most 90 degree days until the 1990s came along. JFK had records from 1983 that were only broken in 2010.

I think we should also measure temps under partial sunlight because thats what we actually experience when we're outside.

Thanks Chris! Didn't Islip get something like 13-14 inches of rain in one summer storm a few years ago? Is that the overall precip record from one storm for our local area? I can't remember any others in the double digits from NYC or the nearby airports.....

Thanks it would be interesting to see what the quickest is we've gotten 1" of rainfall. Interesting research!

wow were they that much cooler than JFK too?

Wow thanks, I didn't realize Newark had reached 100+ that June. From what I recall 1988 was more of an inland summer, right? Where coastal areas never got to triple digits but just inland did? For the entire summer I dont recall any of our NYC airports or the Park reaching 100. Also impressive is in that 1988 heat, Bismarck stayed in the 70s at night consecutive nights, that must be rare! Do you think today could top yesterday there? How do the temps always seem to exceed the forecasts? I thought it was "only" supposed to get to 101-103 there. Is it because of how dry the ground is?

I loved 2010, the heat came early and often

106 at Bismarck a week after they had snow? How many places in the CONUS have gone from snow to 100 in a week? I think Denver did that last September?

Wow, thats the same record maximum as Central Park, which was set in the peak of the dust bowl in 1936. Does that location have records that go that far back? I wonder how hot they were back then?

Probably especially in this era of deluges.....speaking of which we got barely any rain here today, more bark than bite (bark being thunder and lightning lol). The part that confuses me is that the radar looked really good for the south shore, so where did all the rain go?

I'm thinking once the solstice happens things will dry out nicely for the rest of June and most of July, with getting into a wetter pattern again in August with tropical activity. We just need a two week stretch of dry weather and I think we'll get that. Similar to 2011. Remember that was one of our wettest years but we still topped 100 in late July. (Happened in 1983 too.)