MANDA

Sure looks that way.

Gotta love your optimism. We are just about at the earliest sunrise time and about 10 min to go for latest sunset so you can add that to your list of positive things. I'm not a fan of extreme heat and humidity but gotta enjoy Summer for what it has to offer. Don't rush your life away. Keep your expectations for Winter 26-27 low. Without a renegade "biggie" might be slim pickings this coming winter based on Nino climo. We'll see. Same thing for hurricane season. Looks about as hostile as it can be moving forward. Some of the longer range guidance from Canadian and EURO are BONE dry over the tropics right through August. It only takes one to make it memorable though.

Sampling of lowest mins across NJ this morning. Low of 43 here. So great to still be sleeping with the windows open. Back to a drier pattern again. Not much rain in sight next 7 to maybe 10 days. Thankfully no big heat either.

Out on a run and the moon is a rising. Chilly!

With 5-1/2 hours of serviceable daylight left in this 3 day weekend blue skies and sunshine have returned. Will fire up the grill later.

Steady light rain ongoing but looks to be last batch. Should see drying and some brightening by later this afternoon. Event total here as of 8am 1.90". Hoping to get something on the grill for dinner. Remember those who gave all this Memorial Day. My great Uncle, killed on Iwo Jima. I of course never met him. He enlisted at age 18, right out of high school and was deployed to Iwo Jima. My mother told the story of how she was visiting her grandparents in rural Teaneck, NJ. and she was sitting in the living room with her grandmother (my great uncles mother) when two marines knocked on the door with the news that he had been killed. My nephew, a marine now holds his medals and dog tags.

They are not likely to make it up. Lots of $ lost for those folks this weekend. One of the three big summer weekends was just flushed down the drain.

Have to believe the bicycle stuff is due at least in part to the tough economy right now. Gas costs eating into people's disposable income? I'm sure the weather does play at least some part though. Hope things pick up for you soon.

The only folks I feel sorry for this weekend are those that count on nice beach weather weekends to earn a living. It is a short season for them and this long holiday weekend was wasted. The rest of us will survive, it is an annoyance at worst.

Rain all but over out this way. Clouds will linger along with some mist and drizzle. Event total here as of 8am = 1.55". Temperatures have been in the mid to upper 40's for about 30 hours. Just now popped to 50 degrees. Spread fertilizer on Friday afternoon and nice slow rain was perfect to soak it in. Nice soaking sub forum wide.

Thanks for the stats! So a small one site sample shows: - 40 years since the last monthly record low. - 92 years since a monthly record low during meteorological winter. Since 1998 5 monthly record warm readings but none of those during meteorological summer all were during meteorological winter. Of course NYC temperatures during the summer are skewed low since equipment was moved from out in the open to the middle of a thicket. Hard to envision a monthly record low in NYC until the next climate shift to cooler occurs from whatever the cause of that may be. Volcanic? Next natural climate shift? Something more drastic?

@donsutherland1 or @bluewave Do either of you have any idea when the last time a monthly record low was tied or broken at any of our local climo sites?

Anyone have an idea of when the last time was around here that a monthly record low was tied or broken?

Steady light to sometimes moderate rain ongoing. Very chilly and damp with temperature currently at 54 degrees. Had an overnight low of 50. As of 8am had received .12". Ongoing rains will moisten the soil so that the upcoming weekend rains will be more able to soak in instead of just initially running off. Going to put some fertilizer down tomorrow. Been waiting for some decent rains to apply it. Totals as of 8am this morning. Some places did really well. Click to zoom.

Small clusters of storms developing over CPA

Watch posted sub forum wide.

Sampling of the highest readings across NJ today.

Warmest NJ highs from this afternoon.

Currently a 97 near TTN. Cooking over the interior of NJ today.

90-95 along the urban corridor over NJ seems very realistic.

Look on the bright side. We are only about 30 days away from the latest sunset and then we will SLOWLY start going the other way. The hole is almost dug and we will soon starting filling it in.

Some of the NJ hot spots are flirting with 90 degrees this afternoon. NJ April climate summary: https://www.njweather.org/content/thermal-whiplash-april-2026-recap-and-20252026-snow-season-overview

Worked out in the yard all morning from about 8:00 to 12:30. Started out pretty cool but once the sun hit where I was working it got warm. As somewhat gusty breeze still made it feel very pleasant. Soil is VERY DRY!

A paltry .07" here. Yet another event that looked decent 3-4 days out only to dwindle at go time. Top soils are barely ok but will dry out very quickly with any stretch of sunny, very wam to hot weather. Long term dryness persists. It has gotten better over the last 4-6 weeks but could easily go in the other direction fast if we don't get meaningful rain. Southeast really taking it on the chin. We'll see if that persistently dry area hangs on and/or expands over the next few months. It could make an upper ridge want to hold on as the Summer takes hold.

Certainly not worthy of any awards....that's for sure.