LibertyBell

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.)

I predict within a decade or so, portable carry on air conditioners will become common. We'll all be carrying our portable cooling units with us everywhere we go.

100 degrees now hopefully much more likely for coastal areas in July. I see this summer is being compared to the Dust Bowl era because of drought and extreme heat combo.

awesome, the Dust Bowl era is back

This is being compared to the Dust Bowl era with the drought in the Great Plains and the extreme heat. Thoughts?

Note the records are from 1988 that was also the last time Bismarck ND had consecutive days of 100+

Chris did you read about 10% of the Giant Sequoia on the planet being dead because of the big wild fire last summer? Also, the last time Bismarck had back to back days of 100+ was back in 1988.

The sea breeze issue at JFK is interesting, sometimes JFK attains the highest temps despite it, because temps rise so quickly in the morning that they reach 90 before noon. The same happens here, I think because all the tightly packed homes block the sea breeze lol

It's very easy to objectively analyze this. FOIA allows us to uncover who takes how much money from the fossil fuel cartels in political donations (aka bribes). Turns out that most of them are republicans, along with a few hybrids like Manchin who lives in coal country.

I'm telling you right now if the forecast is for 90 at Central Park it will never happen. The forecast has to be for 92 or higher there for it to actually hit 90. 90 at JFK is more likely, especially if the sea breeze holds off until after 1.

oh thats disappointing, so no 90 degrees through this entire stretch at JFK? This isnt really much of a heatwave then

bugs also disappear when it's very hot and dry.....I'd much rather have that

sounds like you're worried about being "canceled"

Conservatives stopped caring about science and the environment as soon as they started taking large bribes from corrupt corporations.