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Looking past the general public’s (and even the wx community’s) “shock” about a tornado warning/touchdown in NYC, you’ll see the city has had quite a few tornado touchdowns in recent years, probably more than most major cities outside of the Plains/Midwest. 08/08/07 - EF2 - Brooklyn 07/25/10 - EF1 - The Bronx 09/16/10 - EF0 - Brooklyn 09/16/10 - EF1 - Queens 08/28/11 - EF0 - Queens (Hurricane Irene) 09/08/12 - EF0 - Queens 09/08/12 - EF1 - Brooklyn 08/02/18 - EF? - Queens I’d add the 09/16/10 Macroburst as an honorable mention, that thing was basically a miles-wide borderline EF2/EF3 wedge tornado.

And Long Island gets all of the unpopped kernels in the bottom of the bag.

I can’t wait until it’s our turn for all-time record territory heat.

Just hit 79.5, an 80 in my book. 18 days this summer with dews at or above 75.

84/77 (HI 93) here. UV Index 10. Steambath. Haven’t noticed much of a difference in day length, aside from it not being as bright after 9PM as it was in late June.

Lol you might be the first one here to make the connection between my username and weather preferences.

Same, will be the highest of the year if it holds. I had a 77 degree morning low back in July, but it didn’t last all day.

Thank you for this, I was actually discussing this elsewhere the other day and someone (with a cold bias) tried to tell me that Central Park is more accurate because it’s in a shaded environment, and that airport observations are more questionable. Willful ignorance.

Dew point hit 78 yet again, for the 4th time this summer, can’t seem to go beyond that, I want an 80.

Just got smoked on I95 in the Bronx. I’ve never driven in rain that heavy, instant roadway flooding. Temp dropped from 90 to 76 quickly. Hot and bone dry in Queens now.

Mega heavy rain on the LIE from a tiny cell barely visible on radar.

The 2005 Hurricane Season....I experienced Hurricane Dennis (2005) in Florida, it wasn’t a direct hit where I was, it was slightly more intense than Irene (but shorter lived), but not as wild as Sandy. But I was a kid from NYC that had never experienced a Hurricane/TS before, so it was a little unsettling to see large objects being hurled around outside, signs falling, and palm trees being ripped to shreds. 2005 just had hurricane after hurricane, I was glued to the weather channel, I stayed up all day/night during Katrina’s landfall and the aftermath.

Never noticed this correlation. And apparently they’re fireflies in Manhattan, I’m from Queens and they’ve always been lightning bugs.

I haven’t been able to come anywhere near 2 inches in a rain event since the 2014 flood. Only 5 (lackluster) thunderstorms so far this year, 6 if you include thundersnow.

Does dew count as precipitation? I have a few dry days with 0.01” on the record from heavy dew, not sure whether to remove those totals or not.

Despite the cloud cover, my UV index peaked at 13 (very briefly), solar irradiance peaked at 1171wm^2, both the highest of the year.

I felt it, I thought I was off balance initially but I noticed clothes hangers swaying back and forth. Swaying not nearly as noticeable as the 2011 quake, that was enough to wake me up out of my sleep.

The sheer amount of green leaves left is astonishing. The landscape is still 50%+ green in many spots and we’re in the second half of November.

I super-hate early sunsets, we’re too far east in this time zone. It’d be nice if we could keep Eastern Daylight Time year round, but the U.S. government doesn’t allow year round DST, only opting out of DST. Making the switch to Atlantic Standard Time year round would solve that problem, multiple New England states have recently proposed switching.

It feels like I haven’t looked at a radar since Maria made landfall in PR. I couldn’t even remember where the RadarScope app was located on my phone’s home screen.

I’m legitimately cold. It’d be nice if the sun came out.

So weird seeing people riding jet skis in October.

The universe is certainly making up for that lackluster spring and summer. I’m not mad at all.

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Am I the only one that hit 90 yesterday before everything went downhill? I noticed some wunderground stations did as well, however it's still strange.