LibertyBell

wow everyone's headed east.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=cmceens&p=cloudcover_labeled&r=us_state_ny Try to get to under 40% cloud coverage.

If in NY your best bet is Lake Placid. I wouldn't depend on holes in the clouds for Syracuse or points west of there.

I think it's really important to analyze those years 1. 1966 had our hottest summer on record up to that point with a record number of 100 degree days too. 2. 1983 set the new record for highest number of 90 degree days to that point (at both NYC and JFK.) 3. 1993 which I'll also reference only had 1 90 degree day in that period (and it was in May) and tied the new record of most 90 degree days set in 1991 (which broke the record of 1983). 4. as 1983 as shown, late season heat can often substitute for early season heat-- check out the number of 90 degree days 1983 had in September!

1993 had only 1 and it was in May and it was a record summer for 90 degree days, this early season thing may not mean much.

if tomorrow is just like this then we're golden for the eclipse!

1993 had 1 90 degree day in May so it really doesn't take a big early season heatwave to have a record hot summer.

What did we have in 1980? I know that was a very hot summer, but I thought the heat began in late June.

I've always wanted to go back and experience that winter, that was the winter I thought about during the 80s snow drought. Also an amazing extended winter February and March were absolutely phenomenal. The winter that reminds me the most of that one is 1995-96

sounds pretty good-- less than 24 hours to totality!

they're really scalping people on hotel rates aren't they? =\

where's Long Lake in reference to Syracuse?

1966 broke records too, very dry and very hot! 1965 and into 1966 was our driest period in recorded history, which was broken by the winter of 1966-67.

Records: Highs: EWR: 92 (2010) NYC: 92 (2010) LGA: 91 (2010) Lows: EWR: 16 (1982) NYC: 21 (1982) LGA: 22 (1982) It's funny to see this, because I remember both extremes so well.

2010: The record heat that affected the region on April 6-7 included 93 degrees at the Washington-Dulles Airport on April 6, the earliest 90-degree reading on record. On April 7, Newark, New Jersey, shattered its daily record by seven degrees when the maximum temperature rose to 92 degrees. The Northeast ended up with its second warmest April in 116 years. I remember this day as if it was yesterday-- who knew the entire summer going into early fall was just as magical as this Very similar to 2002.

sounds like a Florida type summer again, lots of low 90s and very high humidity dew points consistently 70 and above. Can you see how this would be different from 1983 and 2010? What were the indices going into those two summers? The reason I am specifically listing those two summers is because they were also strong or very strong el ninos trending to la ninas. Maybe more like 1983 than 2010? Because this was a super el nino like 1982-83 was. 1983 was still very hot on the south shore of Long Island-- it was the hottest summer prior to 2010 at JFK. It was also our wettest and most humid year by a wide margin before the 2010s.

it's why we need climate modification in the worst way and I'm pretty confident it will happen at some point (probably by 2030).

I choose to focus on the positive, a nice dry stretch sets in after Friday

I think the way it happens is that the south wind gets delayed until after 3 or 4 pm. From what I've noticed, the temperatures rise here quickly (4 degrees per hour) until the sea breeze kicks in. As long as the sea breeze is delayed until after 3 pm it can get very hot here. 2010 was like this

2010 was amazing with a west to northwesterly flow for most of the summer. dry and hot, low humidity and no flooding rains.

Looks like we will start another nice dry stretch after Friday, with a sunny weekend and dry and sunny for the start of the following week too

I think it's absolutely criminal that these places get to experience 100 degrees while we have not hit 100 since 2013-- the real drought is the lack of 100 degrees in the city and on Long Island.

ah so it's not as simple as reading the temperature off a thermometer? I figured seismographs worked in the same way.

I heard it's 200 million years old, it's been around since the heyday of the dinosaurs, Don!

I guess we can put down a T for April then