Newark has been close to 100 numerous times this year. In my area it just has not been a very hot summer.
Currently:
Central Park 88
White Plains 85
Trenton 90
Newark 97
Morristown 91
Long Island is way overdue for a land falling hurricane. Although we have been affected by numerous tropical systems, including the devastating Sandy, there has not been a direct hit since Gloria in 1985.
Still Tropical storm warnings up along the Carolina coast, I just don't see why. The radar shows nothing more than scattered showers and I can't find any wind reports of near Tropical storm force. Am I missing something.
Just checked coastal locations and buoys offshore and the highest I found was 23 knots. Has anyone found any buoy locations with 40mph sustained winds?
I don't think Newark temperatures are wrong. I think they just represent the densely populated NYC and immediate surrounding areas like Newark that are full of concrete and chemical plants and tons of traffic etc. Central Park is also not wrong, it represents temperatures in parks even if there in NYC. I think we can add Newark and Central Park and divide by 2. That may represent most of the area.
It just depends how you look at it. You could have the highest temperature of all time but if first was reached 6 different years, you would then be the 7th highest year even though you would have the second highest actual temperature.
Temperatures at LaGuardia, kennedy, Islip, Bridgeport, Caldwell, Central Park all pretty much normal so far this month. They are either less than a degree above or below normal. The only outlier is Newark which is 2 degrees above normal.
I think what happens is before the frontal passage the wind is more off the water, the front moves thru, the wind switches to more northerly and you get the warm flow off the land.