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.
There must be some decent sized hail in that core near the LIE about to cross into Melville. Enough to cause some damage. Same here though-heavy rain with a few 20 mph or so gusts.
It’s brutal outside today but I wonder if the PWS dew points can be biased too high. The airport dew points are in the upper 60s not the low to mid 70s the PWS seems to have. The seabreeze will definitely kick up the humidity though so we might cut 3-5 degrees off the temp but add 3-5 degrees to the dewpoint in places more than a few miles from the beaches.