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and even this Wednesday-Friday period with sunshine will have interference from wildfire smoke. This is an annual thing now!

Thanks Chris, can you show 95 degree days at JFK, are those flatlining like 90 degree days are?

Don't the higher number of 85 degrees point to a more true tropical climate, there a lot of cities near the Equator that have this kind of climate, and also a lot of bugs-- ticks, spiders, mosquitoes, parasitic flies like the Tsetse Fly, leeches, etc. Are we going to start seeing exotic vermin on our shores and in our homes soon? These bugs do not like extreme heat, what they want is warm overnights, very humid, very wet and frequently cloudy weather. That's what a true tropical climate gives them.

In some way shape or form we're going to have to get rid of all this excess moisture from our atmosphere. It's the only way to counteract rising sea levels and save our coastlines too. Some of this thinking is sci fi but there's a lot we can do, including creating machines that will remove water vapor from the atmosphere and convert it to drinking water as well as transporting water to future space colonies on the Moon and Mars (that water will have to come from somewhere and taking it from Earth will benefit both us and them.) Removing excess water vapor from the atmosphere is more important than removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, water vapor is the much stronger greenhouse gas.

I think that was the year or it could have been 2010? I'm not sure.

2009 to 2018 was ideal for big snowstorms in the winter and extreme heat in the summer with TCs thrown in during the fall. The ideal weather patterns for us. We don't get any of those things anymore lol.

Have you noticed that the return period for 100 degree days has been getting longer at JFK too? Back in the 40s, 50s and 60s it used to happen every few years and now it's only once a decade or so. It's even getting longer at NYC, during the 40s and 50s, I think they got 100 degree days every other year, which is even more frequent than what I experienced in the 80s and 90s before the sensor issues cropped up. It's probably because our climate becoming more humid is making it more difficult to get higher temperatures in the summer (so a combo of a wetter atmosphere, a wetter ground and onshore flow.) The summers between 1944 and 1955 and then 1966 were chock full of records that haven't been matched since. 1944 had a record heatwave of 8 straight days of 8+ days in August and a separate 7 day heatwave in July. 1948 had 3 days of 100+ at JFK (later matched in 2010) 1949 had 5 days of 99+ at Central Park 1953 had that record 12 day heatwave at Central Park and another heatwave of 9 day length and 4 days of 100+ split between those two heatwaves (including the highest temperature ever recorded in September, 102). 1955 had a record 16 days of 95+ 1966 had 4 days of 100+ at Central Park, in both June and July. July 1966 had the highest temperature ever recorded at LGA (107) and JFK (104).

Yep the number 1 thing we need for extreme heat is low rainfall lol. 2011 kind of bucked the trend there so maybe if it dries out for 2 weeks we can reset the pattern? July 2011 had the most extreme heat (although it didn't last long) that I've ever seen here. My personal weather station hit 105.6 which is the highest I've ever seen here. That also came after a la nina.....

I guess you could call it a flash drought, I've noticed these are becoming more common. I liked that we finally got a month with zero rainfall lol.

That's a good way to put it Don. Warm to very warm vs hot, which has a specific definition that involves number of 90+ days.

just one of many reasons why excessive rainfall is horrible (higher number of mosquitoes too.) time to start spraying soon.

thats not a hot summer though, above average driven by higher minima is a warm to very warm summer but doesn't fit the specific definition of *hot* which is defined by number of 90, 95 and 100 degree days.

exactly why we need to get rid of all this useless excess water.

above average but not a hot summer by any measure.

2008: June 7 - 9 , New York, New York: New York City set record high temperatures for three days running: 96 °F, 96 °F, and 99 °F. Truly amazing and that wasn't even a hot summer in 2008.

it was a mini drought, not like what we saw in a real drought like 2002 when we had yellow/brown lawns.

Looks like the only day of rain with that next storm will be Saturday.

Too bad Long Island couldn't do it. Although those places did hit 100, it still can't hold a candle to the record extreme heat we had in such years as 1993, 1999, 2010, 2011, etc.

Looks like the sun will come out tomorrow around 4 PM, we won't have to wait for Wednesday to clear out. It will rain in the morning, dry out by noon and clear out by 3-4 pm.

today is at least a -10

They did say it would stay in the 60s. Naturally we're going to get lower temps in this kind of pattern. At least it's not cold enough for me to turn on my space heater lol.

Of course 2010 is at the top that's our hottest summer of record here. 1999 is number 2.

Our Septembers are now hotter than our Junes are.

it wasn't like this in a few years in the 90s we went straight from winter to summer, it was a common theme here, check out May 1991 That was one amazing summer from May through September

I do think there is something to this September being warmer than June idea, I wonder how many times that's happened in the past? So in 1983 September had 7 90 degree days including a 99 on 9/11, how many times has June had 7 90 degree days with a peak of 99 or higher?