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Radar estimating 1-1.5” in places that got both cells.

Absolute drenching here with this last cell. No hail from what I can tell.

My mom visited me over the weekend and was wondering how the lawns up here are all so green but at her house in Long Beach all brown. The grass down there is practically charred. Too bad yet again they’re missing good rain.

Hail now too. I'd say maybe dime sized.

Torrential rain/thunder here. Looks like some training in the same areas that got blasted last week.

The Euro and most other models busted once again for how hot LI would get on the southerly flow today. 95 here. Not the 100 in NJ but plenty hot here.

Downslope FTW there, wonder from where, Blue Hill area?

For widespread 100 in NYC and east we really need a WNW downslope flow that can hold off the seabreeze. Our future is to be like Florida other than those rare days.

Yesterday was 96 here, today is 93 but it’s atrocious. Long Beach is 87 but I’m sure is the same.

Farmingdale and JFK 96 today. Scorcher right to the beaches. The lack of humidity made it tolerable. Tomorrow probably shaves off 3-4 degrees there but humidity will make it feel much worse.

It’s hot but this is nothing like what Austin’s like this time of year (I lived there 2015 and 2016). You deal with it by being indoors all day and going out long after the sun goes down at 9-10pm. And it was only occasionally 100+ when I lived there-hottest I remember it getting was 107. The insane amount of rain they had in May 2015 probably cooled that summer down. This summer’s way worse in TX where it’s now something like 20-25 days in a row over 100 with no end in sight for almost the whole state. I remember Austin as much for the severe weather/rain in 2015 as the heat which is saying something. The heat finally breaks there in late Oct.

97-99 in the Five Towns/Valley Stream/Rosedale.

Wow, Long Beach up to 95. SW Nassau can be the area hot spot when winds stay offshore or there’s a very weak seabreeze. 92 here.

Sea breeze is starting up but so far it’s pinned to just the barrier islands. Radar shows it moving north but barely any momentum yet. Should easily make it to 95 for those not on the barrier islands.

It’s essentially meaningless today and if anything just makes it worse. Long Beach is still around 90 and S Nassau and even into Suffolk are still well into the 90s. I can kinda tell from here that it’s almost IMBY because there are more cumulus building behind the seabreeze front and almost clear north of it. Shows up pretty well on radar too.

Up to 93. Agreed, the humidity isn’t so horrendous so it feels better than yesterday and Wed.

91 here.

Seabreeze being held off today. 90s right down to Long Beach so far. 89 here, was briefly at 90. Maybe all the rain we had yesterday will keep us a bit cooler than places that had none.

The last couple of summers have been exceptions and you have oddballs like 2011, but it’s frequent that this summer drought happens on the south shore. Without some kind of synoptic storm, it just doesn’t rain there this time of the year other than what can survive coming east from the city. I remember numerous summers growing up and watching MCS type structures collapse as soon as they reach JFK. Yesterday was a frontal boundary plus the sea breeze front but rain barely made it south of the LIE until well east in Suffolk where it collapsed anyway.

JFK and LGA both 91 at 10pm.

Rain is desperately needed there. Lawns down in Long Beach look practically charred. Hopefully we can have a more widespread convective day soon where storms can fire there. Up here it’s a total steam bath once again, like the Amazon.

Once the forcing from the sea breeze front goes away so do the storms. Unfortunately it’s why the south shore/east end often get so dry this time of the year.

Yep, my street which is on a hill was a flowing River for a few minutes in that last cell. Radar estimates 1.8-2” in my immediate area.

Steam is rising off my deck in the sun which is back out like nothing happened lol.

And just like that, sun is back out and we’re back in the steam bath. Crazy last 90 minutes.