LibertyBell

My favorite kinds of summers are one that are very hot and dry but end with a big bang (like a big severe weather outbreak or a big tropical system that comes up the coast.) There have been a few of those (1999, 2010, 2011, 2012). I would've loved 1944 had I been around to experience that summer.

omg I suffocate in high humidity....I think it's the mold spores that get to me. The only kind of heat I like is very dry heat because I dont get sick in it, plus the number of bugs seem to be a lot less? I guess they dont like it when the air isn't moist.

1944 really stands out in those early years....I wonder what happened that summer to make it so hot? and then we had a famous hurricane in September....

wait join which bunch? the 11,33 bunch?

I liked July 4, 2010....101 degrees at JFK but very low humidity three out of four degrees were 100+

I enjoy seeing records lol. There's no reason to be outside in that kind of weather though unless you're in a pool or in the ocean lol.

I dont know Chris.....if EWR or LGA hit 100 but no one else does, it's not really that impressive, because they hit 100 in more years than they dont. I'll be impressed when we get the kind of heat Seattle is about to get. But we dont see those kinds of all time heat records in our part of the country anymore.

The kind of summer I dream of, unfortunately we dont get these type of all time extreme temp records in our part of the country anymore. NYC's record is from 1936.

Don, with Seattle breaking its all time record by almost 10 degrees, I think we have to temper our hot summer hopes because the only two times it ever hit 100 there weren't so hot here (2006, 2009). If Seattle hits 110 I think it would be the greatest heat record the US has ever seen.

Seattle could hit 110 and Portland could hit 120! Thats crazy! as for NYC you need to subtract 10 degrees from those temps lol

the news this summer is going to be the extreme heat in the west. Whats about to happen in Seattle has NEVER happened in NYC....they could hit 110 degrees?! Could you ever imagine, Seattle being hotter than NYC, EWR or Philly has EVER been? Wow! I heard that people there are worried that it'll be so hot that birds will start falling out of the sky en masse. And only one third of the people there have A/C! Seattle has only hit 100 twice before (2006, 2009) and the highest ever was 103 in 2009. Neither summer was very hot here, but that's besides the point, beating their former all time record by nearly 10 degrees is going to be amazing! I heard even areas right at the ocean are going to hit 100!

wow the top 3 in that list eventually got very hot here too. 1955 and 1995 moreso than 2017 which was more humid than hot but still..... 2002 was very hot for us too.

Oh okay so it seems like the week before the 4th will be hotter than the week after? lol I know this is from 2020 but it looks like you're forecasting the same thing for this year?

I have the week after July 4th off, any idea if it gets hotter then or more warm and humid? The week I'm talking about is July 5th-12th.

I think you're missing one data point for JFK because the 101 at JFK for July 4th 2010 actually seems to be in 2011 lol.

the last time that JFK hit 100!

hence the damn bugs

lol July is our hottest month. I hope your house hits 110 in July

JFK was close to 95 in October just a few years ago with a heat index near 100

I had a mosquito come inside, no thanks for keeping the windows open.

Did I see that right that Seattle could hit 100 degrees on Saturday? When was the last time that happened- it must be really rare! I've also heard that boating is banned on Lake Tahoe because the levels of the lake are so low that trash is showing up that people have been thoughtlessly dumping into the lake over the last few decades! 800 pounds of trash taken out yesterday!

Thunder lightning and some rain here after 2-3 am.....

I like my heat with very low humidity too. Water vapor is nothing but an air pollutant.

Blame it on too much of the earth being covered by oceans. We need to start using that water.

I wouldn't mind if we started using the oceans for our water supply. 70% of the earth being covered by water is entirely too much. We'd have a much better climate if we could get it down to 50% or so.