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  1. 11 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

    The timing was pure bad luck-if the river rose like that during the day most would be up and about and would have time to move to higher ground...

    Sadly the speed with which this happened and the timing created a perfect storm for losses. 

     

  2. 2 minutes ago, FPizz said:

    To me taking the average of both stations is probably the best option.  One gets a slight bump down, the other a slight bump up.  Newark though is nearly always the hottest whereas NYC a lot of times, even though overgrown, still finishes temp wise in the middle.  

     

    Funny thing is people as you said use it, but like no one on the forum lives there.  They really should use other stations.  Its been an issue with temps and snow measuring forever, but no one cares, so I don't either.  

    I think you'll find Central Park deviates more from the mean compared to Newark. 

    Yesterday I was 98 degrees and I am all single family homes with trees and grass. 

    LGA was also 98. Newark was 100. 

    Central Park though was only 93! Come on bro 

  3. 7 minutes ago, lee59 said:

    I would call the Newark area as urban with suburbia to the near west and rural to the far west.

    The station is at the airport though, not in the city of Newark. The city itself is north of the airport, which is not where the wind blows from during heatwaves to begin with.

    Directly west of the airport, it's all single family homes with grass and trees. I would have posted a screenshot but this stupid forum caps images at 12 kilobytes like it's 1995. 

    Meanwhile the Central Park station is inside the most urban environment in the entire country. 

     

  4. 7 minutes ago, FPizz said:

    5 and 17 for Newark are both garbage.  The average of them gets you to where the vast majority of the area are in. 

    Newark is suburbia and then rural to its west and southwest though. When the winds are westerly or southwesterly during heatwaves, they are blowing over a lot of greenery and open space. 

    The Central Park station is in a mini jungle, improperly sited compared to all the other official stations surrounded by concrete. 

    So the conditions between these two stations are actually the opposite.

    East Jersey naturally is the hottest area, probably due to some downsloping. Other personal stations in that area even in suburbia get basically as hot as Newark does, you can see them on the Ambient Weather website. 

     

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Dark Star said:

    In general, global warming does lend itself to providing more moisture, but certainly every event cannot be blamed on that.  Floods have been happening since the beginning of time.  A large portion of society have flocked to live in coastal areas.  Others inhabit areas below sea level.  And our population keeps encroaching on what used to be rural areas, so more and more people are affected by bad weather.  I can't believe anybody on this site believes in "Chemtrails"...

    People who believe in chemtrails on a weather board are like astronomers who believe in flat earth. 

    I guess they never bothered to learn what the "con" in contrails stands for lol

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  6. 46 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

    I agree. It is disappointing that the situation at Central Park has been neglected. The data no longer reliably reflects summer conditions in Manhattan. No matter how the data is examined, one sees an unmistakable impact during the summer or full foliage months.

    All they have to do is chop back enough to where the shadows don't fall on the station post leaf out. 

    The station right now has basically no clearance around it:

    Screenshot_20250702-094644.thumb.png.2fd566558421218a807d9bbe713addb1.png

    I have no hope that it will ever have 100 feet of clear land around it, but at least cut back enough to where the shadows aren't all over the station. 

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