LibertyBell

I hope you have an elevated viewing location (like a rooftop or something) because the sun will be really close to the horizon, maximum eclipse is 10 min after sunrise. Make sure you have eclipse glasses since it's an annular eclipse.

I was going to say this reminds me of Florida- lots of 90 degree days and very high humidity but doesn't get much higher than 95-96.

Once the ocean warms up dont the storms make it all the way across?

Ocean lagging behind despite how warm the spring has been. I'd expect the ocean to be closer to 70 right now but it's stuck in the low 60s brrrr.

thats why we need a westerly wind to hit 100 degrees.

and it's still only June and early June at that

Got to 68 this morning and I actually turned off my a/c and fan

that plus that sensor is right near the water lol south shore of nassau a couple of miles away from the ocean was warmer (like me)

Heat will probably rebuild after 6/21 Pattern changes are often rushed by the models.

are we talking about a more westerly push for the heat at the end of June or will that be an onshore push for us again?

what about JFK? they seem to be running cooler than the south shore stations of western Nassau county we hit 90 Saturday and 93 Sunday

it was 68 here this morning lol

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.