Seasonal lag is a PITA. Can you imagine how much better off we’d be if Spring behaved more like Fall? Fall weather (in reverse) + the stronger sunshine would be a dramatic improvement over this confused tepid mess of a season.
Currently 40 degrees (and dropping) in the middle of the day, today’s max sun angle is over 60 degrees, elevation is close to sea level. Ridiculous.
Winds aren’t letting up anymore like they were earlier, it’s more constant, feeling a bit Sandy-ish, obviously not the height of Sandy which was on another level, but how it felt in the hours prior.
Leaf out slowed a bit but I see quite a few trees with small leaves and buds popping open on others and we’re still weeks ahead of schedule.
No freeze here since Mar 16, and even that wasn’t a real freeze, low was 32. Have to go all the way back to Mar 8 for anything sub freezing.
Staten Island & Central Jersey have the best spring climo in the area. Best area climate in general.
Temp here was still in the low/mid 50’s at about 3:30pm. Holding at 69 here now, hasn’t budged in about 15 minutes following a rapid rise.
Only 63 here today, didn’t clear out until almost 4:00, nice finish but absolute garbage for most of the day.
And it’s still 60 right now, where was this energy earlier??? And there’s 70’s just a couple of miles to my west/northwest, wtf.
71 now here, finally!
And it feels like it’s been quite a long time since we’ve had dry(-ish) heat, with humidity it’s like we always fall just shy of 100, though the heat index sometimes goes way beyond 100.