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it's being reported near Babylon (south of Montauk Hwy) too!

Looks like that predicted methane release from Siberia may be right around the corner....

Yesterday was the way heat is supposed to be! lol NYC was 4 degrees cooler than JFK

Yesterday was the way heat is supposed to be! lol NYC was 4 degrees cooler than JFK

Chris, I thought we were supposed to cool down over the weekend and the heat was going to return next week?

isn't today the day that Newark hit 108 in 2011? I remember some said that even that was a lowball, it was more like 110.

I used to do that as a teenager. That was back in the early 90s lol.

they need to quit building airports near bodies of water (particularly with sea level rise)....any data on when JFK will be going underwater from sea level rise (unless they move its location like they are doing with some military bases)?

we're warmer than JFK to our west lol

You saw it from Manhattan? How high up was it?

isn't supposed to be closest to the earth on Thursday?

it's the side effects of it, like an overpopulation of nuisance insects and the lengthening allergy season.

Wait, that was a year before Hale-Bopp? I wonder why I dont remember it in NY, maybe it couldn't be seen from here?

I wonder if we'll get the much needed turnaround next summer? If any summer can do it, it'll be next year's.

bleh I thought JFK reached 90 here yesterday? We did (just barely) hit 90 here in SW Nassau. TV Met on ABC said "all NYC airports hit 90"

Yes, it seems like things changed after the 90s, before then NYC was fairly consistent with the rest of the area with its 90+ numbers.

2010 agrees well with my own observations that it was our hottest summer EVER :-) However I found both 2016 and 2005 to be lackluster because of lack of 100 degree temps on the coast. I have my own list for the hottest summers and these are them in chronological order: 1991 1993 1999 2010 2011 honorable mention goes to 1983 and 1995 and 2002. I find the number of 90 degree days and number of 100 degree days to be more important than avg temps when I gauge which summers are the "hottest." That 10 day streak of 90+ and 3 straight 100+ in July 1993 really stand out to me as the hottest weather I've ever experienced here. The streak of 3 days out of 4 at 100+ at JFK in 2010 comes close, but that was a drier (nicer) heat. Overall though 2010 > 1993 and they are both in my short list for hottest summers. If I had to go back in time I'd say 1966 belongs on this list too, possibly second only to 2010 for its streak of 100+ And 1953 because of that record streak of 90+ and 100+ in late August and September!

this weather is BORING, I'd much rather hit 100 here.

we have to get rid of that annoying ocean....we didn't even hit 90 here today.

But those water temps are only near the surface, I think some are under the mistaken impression that we can get Cat 4/5 hurricanes like areas further south can. The warm water extends to much deeper depths down there and upwelling here means those warm ocean temps dont last very long. As a matter of fact, a nice hot land breeze actually means more upwelling and cooler sea surface temps and a yucky humid breeze from the SE is what makes the sst warmer and yet the coast cooler. The strength of oncoming tropical cyclones around here has much more to do with the overall pattern and the speed of the oncoming storm rather than how warm or cool the sst are.

thats exactly what I'm saying- I heartv mets say ohh long island has the sea breeze and they get jealous as if it's 75 here or something. The "sea breeze" here isn't much better than it is in the Louisiana swamps and smells just as bad......

You think one of these years, NASA will explode a nuke on an otherwise mundane comet just to give us a show ;-)

aint that the truth. I'm waiting for another one of these "great" comets, I dont think we've had any in our lifetimes?

I dont have any honey bees but plenty of bumbles, they're always welcome in my yard, and I dont think they sting anyone who doesn't bother them. I do keep my distance from them though...... Once last year one somehow got into my bedroom and I grabbed a pair of gloves and gently put him/her back outside on a flower and s(he) went on their way as if nothing had happened.

JFK is great for radiational cooling, much more like the south shore of Nassau County. It also cools down faster in the fall during early season snowfall events ;-)