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87 here much clearer as smoke south

Records: Highs: EWR: 100 (2012) NYC: 100 (1953) LGA: 98 (2012) JFK: 97 (1969) Lows: EWR: 56 (1946) NYC: 57 (1892) LGA: 60 (1946) JFK: 61 (1989) Historical: 1902: Temperature range was 38° from 58° minimum to 97° maximum in Baltimore City, MD. 1934 - One of the worst heat waves in the history of the nation commenced. During the last two weeks of the month extreme heat claimed 679 lives in Michigan, including 300 in Detroit alone. (The Weather Channel) 1941 - A prolonged heat wave over Washington State finally came to an end. Lightning from untimely thunderstorms was responsible for 598 forest fires. (David Ludlum) 1942: A great flood developed over the Smethport area in Pennsylvania, resulting in an estimated 34.50 inches of rain in just one day, including 30.60 inches in only six hours, setting a world record. The official observing site, Smethport Highway Shed, reported only 13.08 inches for the entire month because the flood consumed the gauge after 6.68" of rain. The total results from the substitution of the officially estimated amount for the amount measured. 1943: Col. James Duckworth became the first person to fly an airplane into a hurricane. Duckworth took his AT-6 trainer right into the eye of a category 1 hurricane off the Texas coast. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1952 - Thunderstorms helped the temperatur at Key West, FL, to dip to 69 degrees, to equal their July record established on the first of July in 1923. (The Weather Channel) 1957 - On a warm and sunny day at Wilmington, DE, with a high of 86 degrees, a dust devil suddenly appeared. It tore most the roof off one house, and stripped shingles from a neighboring house. A TV aerial was toppled, and clothes were blown off clothes lines. (The Weather Channel) 1978: Severe thunderstorms ripped across southwest sections of South Dakota. One storm which dumped hail larger than golf balls and had winds which exceeded 80 mph was labeled as one of the most destructive to strike several western counties. Bennett County alone lost 20,000 acres and 600,000 bushels of unharvested winter wheat. The storms also did considerable property damage. Total price tag for the storms was near $28 million dollars. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1980: The maximum temperature ever recorded in Atlanta, GA was 105 °F on this date. The maximum temperature ever recorded in Macon, GA was 108 °F on this date. The high of 110 degrees at Newington, GA was just two degrees shy of the state record. (Extreme Weather pp. 22, 273, by Christopher C. Burt) 1981: Severe thunderstorm winds ripped a 10,000 square foot hole in a 90-foot high pavilion at Sea World in Orlando, FL. The storm panicked a crowd of 550 tourists. One death occurred due to injury and heart attack, and 15 people were injured. The canopy was made of fiberglass and Teflon, designed to withstand 120 mph winds. 1985: An F1 tornado touched down, 10 miles east of Raymond, SD destroying two cattle sheds and several buildings. Heavy rains, strong winds and hail up to 2.75 inches in diameter produced considerable damage to farm buildings between Raymond and Garden City. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches caused additional crop losses from erosion. A thunderstorm near Kennebec produced wind gusts to 80 mph and small hail was observed. Several car windows were broke from wind and small hail. A damage path from wind and hail continued to Clear Lake, to south of Gary and into Minnesota to the east of Canby. Winds gusted to 70 mph and hail ranged from one to almost two inches in diameter. Highway 77, south of Clear Lake was impassable due to hail on the ground. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1987 - Slow moving thunderstorms caused flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas resulting in tragic loss of life. A bus and van leaving a summer youth camp stalled near the rapidly rising river, just west of the town of Comfort, and a powerful surge of water swept away 43 persons, mostly teenagers. Ten drowned in the floodwaters. Most of the others were rescued from tree tops by helicopter. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - A dozen cities in the eastern U.S., and six others in California, reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown San Francisco, CA, with a high of 103 degrees, obliterated their previous record high of 82 degrees. Philadelphia, PA, reported a record five straight days of 100 degree heat, and Baltimore, MD, reported a record eight days of 100 degree weather for the year. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather along the Middle Atlantic Coast, and over southern New England. (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from South Dakota to Lousiana, with 126 reports of large hail and damaging winds during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced hail four inches in diameter in Frontier County, and at North Platte, causing millions of dollars damage to crops in Frontier County. Thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Peggs. Tahlequah OK was drenched with 5.25 inches of rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1993: All-time monthly record rainfall established already at Concordia, KS as rainfall records continued to fall across the Midwest during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993. Total rainfall so far was 13.26”; this broke the old record of 11.19”. On this date, two inches of rain fell in 12 minutes in parts of Montgomery County, Iowa. 12 inches fell in just three hours near Bamboo, WI. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1994: Atlanta, Georgia saw a record-tying, 14 straight days come to an end on this day. The entire month of July had 17.71 inches, the wettest month ever in the Georgia capital. 1995: A 15-year-old boy was injured by lightning while touching an outdoor light switch at a swim and tennis club just outside Charlottesville, VA . He had been playing tennis and was leaving the courts due to the storm when he was struck. (Ref. Lightning - Virginia Weather History) 1997: Tropical Storm Danny strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico off of the Louisiana Coast and moved slowly toward land. This marked only the third time in 126 years that four tropical storms had formed so early in the season (1886, 1959 were the other years). The storm would eventually stall over Mobile Bay, dumping incredible amounts of rain on the Alabama coast. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 2000: Intense storms produced a vivid lightning display in the early a.m. over Kansas City, KS/MO. 2,000+ cloud-to-ground bolts hit Johnson County between 2-3 a.m.; the number of intracloud bolts may have exceeded 20,000 in the same time span. (Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA) 2003: Denali National Park, Alaska: One inch of snow falls at Denali National Park Headquarters, the first occurrence of measurable snow ever recorded in July. (Ref. WxDoctor) 2005: Needles, CA reached a high temperature of 125°, recording their hottest temperature ever. Other daily records included: Palm Springs, CA: 121°, Borrego Springs, CA: 120°, Yuma, AZ: 117°, Las Vegas, NV: 116°, Phoenix, AZ: 116°, Kingman, AZ: 113°, Tucson, AZ: 111° and Winslow, AZ: 105°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

76 / 61 partyl cloudy with the worst of the smoke heading south. Mid 80s to 90 in the warmest locations. Saturday severe risk and rain / flood potential increasing. Clearing out for t=Sunday world cup game. Trough into the northeast 7/19 - 7/24 more rain/storm chances Tue-Wed keep heat south, enough sun / less rain could see temps spike wed-thu. Overall near / below normal the next week. 7/27 and beyond western heat coming east , see if the W. Atlantic ridge retro back west.

Today's Highs PHL: 95 ACY: 93 TTN: 91 New Brnswck: 90 BLM: 90 TEB: 90 EWR: 89 LGA: 88 JFK: 87 ISP: 86 NYC: 85

ROgue storm in NJ

More images coming through the satellite

89 / 70 grey sky smoke / clouds - clouds / smoke - just smoke / mostly clouds TBD once satellite is back.

GOES-19 Update #3 — Imaging expected to resume this afternoon NOAA reports that DCS and Search-and-Rescue services returned at 12:30 p.m. EDT on July 16. Engineers are now restoring the Advanced Baseline Imager, with GOES-East imaging expected to resume by 3:00 p.m. EDT today. Initial image navigation may be slightly degraded during the first hour. The remaining instruments will be restored in this order: ABI, GLM lightning mapper, SUVI, then the space-weather instruments. NOAA estimates that returning all GOES-19 instruments to normal operations will take approximately eight hours. This is the first official restoration timeline, but GOES-19 is not yet fully operational.

Seems to be the only image i can find

I still see it cached to Jul 15 but saw the message its resolved.

GOES-East Update: NOAA says the GOES-19 Safehold condition has been resolved, and engineers are now preparing to restart the onboard instruments. The spacecraft is no longer in Safehold, but GOES-East imagery is still unavailable while instrument checks, calibration, and validation are completed. NOAA has not yet provided an estimated time for full restoration, and there has been no announcement that GOES-16 will be activated as the backup. This is still a positive step and makes a return to service more likely.

Its like 1960s pre satellite imagery - there are a mix of clouds and smoke and the clouds seem to be thinning as its getting brighter with pokes of a smoky sin.

Despite the clouds / smoke still to 79 and a chance to extend the 90+ readings here.

Latest GOES-East update GOES-East, which is GOES-19, entered “Safehold” after a spacecraft anomaly. NOAA says the outage began at 4:23 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. All GOES-19 imagery and derived products are unavailable, including visible, infrared, water vapor and lightning data delivered to operational systems. What “Safehold” means Safehold is a protective spacecraft mode. The satellite automatically places itself in a stable, power-safe configuration when it detects a potentially serious problem. Normal observations and data transmission are usually suspended while engineers determine what triggered the event and carefully restore the spacecraft. NOAA’s latest official message says: Engineers confirmed GOES-19 is in Safehold. They are actively working to recover the satellite. The suspected source is the satellite or one of its instruments, rather than simply a website failure. The restoration time remains TBD, with no official recovery timeline yet. Is the satellite permanently damaged? There is no indication yet that GOES-19 is permanently lost. Safehold is designed specifically to protect a satellite during an anomaly. However, NOAA has not disclosed the underlying technical cause or provided an estimated return-to-service time. The most recent NOAA alert remains Update #1, issued July 15 at 6:16 p.m. EDT. No Update #2 or recovery announcement had been posted when I checked. What about the backup satellite? NOAA has GOES-16 in on-orbit storage as the designated backup for GOES-18 or GOES-19. It is positioned near 104.7°W, between the normal East and West locations. NOAA has not yet announced that GOES-16 is being activated or moved into the GOES-East position. Even when a backup is available, activating instruments, validating data and possibly repositioning the satellite can take time. There is also a separate NOAA STAR network-server problem disrupting some image production and website delivery. That issue may make NOAA web pages appear even more incomplete, but it is not the primary cause of the current GOES-East outage—the spacecraft itself is not transmitting data. Current status: GOES-19 remains in Safehold, all GOES-East products are unavailable, engineers are attempting recovery, and there is no estimated restoration time.

Records: Highs: EWR: 104 (1995) NYC: 102 (1995) LGA: 103 (1995) JFK: 99 (1983) Lows: EWR: 55 (1940) NYC: 57 (1930) LGA: 62 (1960) JFK: 59 (1999) Historical: 1643: (July 5th on old Julian calendar) 1643, Plymouth Colony: A violent windstorm hits the Plymouth Colony, the "sudden gust" fells trees and kills one Native American. May have been first documented American tornado or microburst. (Ref. WxDoctor) 1901: The city of Marquette, Michigan set their all-time record high temperature with 108-degree reading. 1916 - A dying South Atlantic Coast storm produced torrential rains in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Altapass, NC, was drenched with more than 22 inches of rain, a 24 hour rainfall record for the state. Flooding resulted in considerable damage, particularly to railroads. (David Ludlum) 1936: Perhaps the hottest night ever recorded in the US outside of the desert Southwest, occurred at Lincoln, Nebraska when the minimum temperature fell to only 91°F. The citizens of that city spent the night outdoors trying to sleep on the lawn of the state capitol. (Nebraska State Historical Society) (Extreme Weather p. 30, by Christopher C. Burt) 1936: All-time record highs were set at the following cities: Quincy, IL: 114°, Peoria, IL: 113°, Lincoln, IL: 113° and Rockford, IL: 112°. Champaign, IL hit 107°. This stood as their all-time record until 1954. 1940: A cool 51° minimum temperature equaled July's record low on July 2nd in 1965 in Richmond, VA. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) 1954 - The temperature at Balcony Falls, VA, soared to 110 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel) 1976: Thunderstorms caused 76 mph winds at DCA and the highest since 98 mph winds were recorded in Hurricane Hazel in October 15, 1954. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) 1980: Minneapolis, MN was plagued by severe thunderstorms that produced hail and tornadoes. Nearly 100,000 people were without power. Damage totaled over $43 million dollars. The city of Memphis, TN set their all-time record high temperature record with 108 °F and Albany, GA also set their all-time record high with 107 °F. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1981: Daytona Beach, FL set their all-time record high with 102 °F. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1983 - The Big Thompson Creek in Colorado flooded for the second time in seven years, claiming three lives, and filling the town of Estes Park with eight to ten feet of water. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Unseasonably cool weather spread into the south central and eastern U.S. Fifteen cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Houghton Lake, MI, with a reading of 37 degrees. The high temperature for the date of 58 degrees at Flint, MI, was their coolest of record for July. Thunderstorms spawned several tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana, injuring a cow near Donovan, IL. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Twenty-six cities east of the Mississippi River reported record high temperatures for the date. Charleston, WV, established an all-time record high with a reading of 103 degrees, and Chicago, IL, reported a record fifth day of 100 degree heat for the year. A severe thunderstorm moving across Omaha, NE, and the Council Bluffs area of west central Iowa spawned three tornadoes which injured 88 persons, and also produced high winds which injured 18 others. Winds at the Omaha Eppley Airport reached 92 mph. Damage from the storm was estimated at 43 million dollars. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) 1989 - Thunderstorms drenched Kansas City, MO, with 4.16 inches of rain, a record for the date. Two and a half inches of rain deluged the city between Noon and 1 PM. Afternoon thunderstorms in South Carolina deluged Williamstown with six inches of rain in ninety minutes, including four inches in little more than half an hour. (The National Weather Summary)(Storm Data) 1995: Upstate New York: A extremely severe derecho sweeps across upstate New York. Wind gusting to 106 mph devastates over one million acres (400,000 hectares) of trees, felling tens of millions. Five campers are killed by the falling timbers. (Ref. WxDoctor) 1995: Danbury, Connecticut: The highest temperature ever reported in Connecticut is 106 °F. (Ref. Lowest and Highest Temperatures for the 50 States) 1995: Dew points >80 degrees, with a date record high of 103 degrees gave Philadelphia, PA a heat index of 129 degrees. 40 people died from heat in SE PA; approx. 1 million PA chickens succumbed to the heat. Some highways (including I-83 in York County) closed due to heat buckling. (Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA) 2003: Phoenix, Arizona: A daily maximum temperature above 90°F is usually considered a hot day, but this date, the official minimum temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport never dipped below 96°F. It is the highest low temperature in Phoenix history. (Ref. WxDoctor) 2006: Kelly Ranch/Usta set South Dakota’s ties high temperature record for SD with 120 °F. Pierre and Rapid City, SD sets their new all-time daily maximum temperature records with 117 °F and 111 °F respectively. Chadron, NE also set their all-time record high with 112 °F. Alliance, NE reported their second hottest day on record with 107 °F. Denver, CO set daily record highs on this date and the 16th with 101 °F and 103 °F respectively. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

76 / 70 cloudy / smoky. Satellites visible imagery down across the board (stuck on Jul 15) so clearing of clouds and mix of smoke will be key in extending the heat 90+. Same for Friday - hottest spots extend this current heat while other just short and smoke may further limit. Saturday trough pushes front through which is slow to pass with ridge resisting and could mean some hevaier rains for some locations. It does looks like we clear out of the smoke and rain/storms for Sunday and Metlide World cup finale. Overall near normal to slightly below 7/20 - 7/24, beyond there pending on the W. Atlantic Ridge more southerly flow could push lows and bring overall near - above normal with next chance of western heat 7/27 and beyond. No Satellite feed for today (yet) - This is real-time and when it comes back should update to 7-16

Today's Highs:ACY: 100New Brnswck: 99EWR: 98JFK: 98LGA: 98PHL: 98BLM: 95TTN: 97TEB: 96NYC: 95ISP: 92

Today's Highs: ACY: 100 New Brnswck: 99 EWR: 98 JFK: 98 LGA: 98 PHL: 98 BLM: 98 TTN: 97 TEB: 96 NYC: 95 ISP: 92

99 here 98 New Brnswck 99 EWR

Storms aling and between i80

CLouds in NJ CNJ smoke coming south into far extrem Northern NEew Jersy

EWR to 97 at 1PM with some clouds now into the northen half section of NJ 95 here

Noon roast EWR: 95 JFK: 94 LGA: 94 TEB: 93 BLM: 93 NYC: 93 New Brnswck: 92 PHL: 92 ISP: 91 ACY: 91 TTN: 90

90 here 7 behind the hottest day Jul 1-4th so thinking we top out in the 97-99 range 100 south of the area.