August 2024

[SACRUS]

 

Much needed break from the rain

 

[winterwarlock]

will sunday be a beach day or is it going to be one of those days where they say mostly sunny but it ends up mostly cloudy

[Rtd208]

Picked up 0.30" of rain for the day yesterday

8 day rainfall total of 5.56"

[winterwarlock]

3.00 from the 5 days of Debbie and her minions....5.11 for the month of August

 

lawns here are weedy and moderately green in general but the treated lawns are still suffering a bit from the June/July still with alot of brown batches caused by disease and heat stress

[SnoSki14]

Dews are still a bit high but things are gradually getting more comfortable 

[SACRUS]

 

[Stormlover74]

7 of the first 9 days saw at least .10" of rain and now there's not a drop of rain forecast for the next 7 days

[SACRUS]

59 minutes ago, winterwarlock said:

will sunday be a beach day or is it going to be one of those days where they say mostly sunny but it ends up mostly cloudy

today, monday and Thu looks like the sunniest, clearest days.  But still looks partly cloudy tomorrow.  May get those 12pm high clouds that clear by 3/4

[FPizz]

22 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

7 of the first 9 days saw at least .10" of rain and now there's not a drop of rain forecast for the next 7 days

Perfect

[Stormlover74]

13 minutes ago, FPizz said:

Perfect

And in a week we'll be saying how dry it's gotten

[Allsnow]

We done 

 

 

[forkyfork]

extremely boring outside 

[winterwarlock]

24 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

We done 

 

 

we can easily get into the 90s late August and early September...maybe not with the humidity but recent years have had alot of these hot days

[psv88]

Dew point still 72 here, no dry air yet 

[nycwinter]

summer ends with a whimper..

[MANDA]

Picked up just .40" yesterday.  Total for August to date is 6.35".  Pleasant stretch of weather ahead !

[SACRUS]

 

84 / 60  sunny now with some high clouds building in shortly 

 

Great drying out weather.

 

 

[uofmiami]

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

Dew point still 72 here, no dry air yet 

58 DP in Muttontown, dry air is slowly moving E.

[SnoSki14]

Dews around 65 so still a muggy feel though huge difference from upper 70s tropical air.

Tomorrow should be a delight with much lower dews. 

[Shades]

2 hours ago, winterwarlock said:

we can easily get into the 90s late August and early September...maybe not with the humidity but recent years have had alot of these hot days

We also don't need temperatures in the 90s to achieve dews in the 70s. It can be in the 80s or 70s with just the same under tropical/WAR influence, which can run us into October. Subjectively, I like the variability with patterns vs. being locked in for weeks of dry/seasonable or hot/humid. Otherwise, there tends to be depreciation with many weather enthusiasts involving the same 'ol, whatever that may be - this ain't L.A. Averages are the measures of extremes, and there's value in that at our lat/lon. 

[weathermedic]

87/65 here

[jm1220]

1 hour ago, uofmiami said:

58 DP in Muttontown, dry air is slowly moving E.

Much drier now-feels great outside. Bye bye gunk.

[WestBabylonWeather]

What a day out there. Perfection. Can’t wait to grill later 

 

[SACRUS]

 

89 /  61 here, 

[Rjay]

88/57

[psv88]

86/65. Nice boat day 

[steve392]

Mushrooms, mushrooms everywhere around me.  All this rain has the fungi growing like crazy lol

[psv88]

Dews back in the upper 60s across LI now 

[SACRUS]

 

Highs:

 

 

EWR: 89
BLM: 89
ACY: 88
PHL: 88
ISP:  88
JFK: * 87
TEB: 87
New Brnswck: 87
LGA: 87
TTN: 85
NYC: 85

 

Not able to see intra hour highs at ISP and JFK (yet)

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR:  102 (1949)
NYC: 98 (1949)
LGA: 99 (1949)
JFK: 94 (1949)


Lows:

EWR: 57 (1962)
NYC: 55 (1879)
LGA: 57 (1962)
JFK: 54 (1964)

Historical:

 

1856 - The Isle Derniere (Last Island) disaster occurred off the coast of Louisiana. A storm tide drowned 140 vacationers as a five foot wave swept over Low Island during a hurricane. (The Weather Channel)

1882 - Sandusky OH noted a four minute snow squall during the morning, frost was reported in the suburbs of Chicago, and a killing frost was reported at Cresco IA. (The Weather Channel)

1884 - An earthquake, centered near New York City and registering a magnitude 5.5, hit the region a little after 2 PM. The tremor made houses shake, chimneys fall, and residents wonder what the heck was going on, according to a New York Times article two days later.

1898 - The temperature at Pendleton OR climbed all the way to 119 degrees at set a state record. (The Weather Channel)

1924 - Colorado's deadliest tornado killed a woman and nine children in one house along its twenty-mile path east southeast of Thurman. Mennonite men had left the farm to provide possible aid, as the 200-yard wide storm was first seen while far away.(The Weather Channel)

1936 - The temperature soared to 114 degrees at Plain Dealing, LA, and reached 120 degrees at Ozark AR, to establish record highs for those two states. (The Weather Channel)

1980 - Hurricane Allen came ashore above Brownsville, TX, dropping fifteen inches of rain near San Antonio, and up to 20 inches in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Tidal flooding occurred along the South Texas coast. Hurricane Allen packed winds to 150 mph, and also spawned twenty-nine tornadoes. Total damage from the storm was estimated at 750 million dollars. (David Ludlum)

1987 - Unseasonably hot weather continued in the southeastern U.S. Ten cities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina reported record high temperatures for the date. Macon GA hit 101 degrees. A tropical depression deluged southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana with torrential rains. (The National Weather Summary)

1988 - Citizens of Bluefield, WV, where the Chamber of Commerce provides free lemonade on days when the temperature warms into the 90s, were able to celebrate their record high of 90 degrees. Eight other cities also reported record high temperatures for the date,including Bismarck ND with a reading of 102 degrees.(The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Thirty-eight cities in the south central and southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville NC with a reading of 48 degrees, and Victoria TX with a low of 63 degrees. Oklahoma City OK reported a record cool afternoon high of 71 degrees, and the daily high of 64 degrees at Raleigh NC established a record for August. In Arizona, a record sixty-four day streak of 100 degree days at Phoenix came to an end.(The National Weather Summary)