July 2025 Discussion-OBS - seasonable summer variability

[FPizz]

1 hour ago, winterwarlock said:

Im skeptical about those storms even as they are right on our doorstep

Only .05" here

[Snowlover11]

Figures NJ, and now CT storms are blowing up.

[lee59]

Storms actually seem to be getting stronger as they cross Brooklyn and Queens

[lee59]

Looks like some decent rains heading for Long Island.

[SnowGoose69]

43kt gust at JFK

[qg_omega]

38 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Nothing

Blew Up over me lol, .60 already

[winterwx21]

43 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

I know. These gusts are making me nervous 

Yeah I can't blame you for that after what we went through last week. Thankfully they weren't severe. I did see some nice cloud to cloud lightning. As far as the rainfall, I got 0.08" from that little band of light to moderate rain. 

[doncat]

97° high... 0.10" with a bit of thunder, temp down to 76° currently, light rain about to end.

[steve392]

Had some incredible lightning strikes moments ago. 

 

Now have a downpour that I hear on our roof over the ac blowing. 

[steve392]

Green skies too. 

[BobbyHolikWillFindYou]

17 minutes ago, steve392 said:

Green skies too. 

Burnt amber here in Passaic.

[steve392]

Decent downpour but not enough to help grasses and gardens. 

[ag3]

High of 98.6 here today.

.37” of rain with this nice little storm.

[lee59]

I thought some decent rains for my area but once again it does not look like it. 

[FPizz]

6 minutes ago, Santa Claus said:

nice sunsets

Sky was an orange/yellow color

[Dan76]

58 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

43kt gust at JFK

54 kts https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=sdhn4

[cannoliman42]

Not sure what's going on in the Bronx/lower Westchester but absolutely crazy lightning show happening to my north/northeast (I'm in Astoria).

[Rmine1]

Sprinkles. Waste of time 

[psv88]

Crazy lightning show to my north

[jm1220]

I guess about 0.6” total. This last batch largely lurched to my N over the sound. 

[Intensewind002]

Picked up a whopping 0.11" here, so much for the flood watch

[SACRUS]

 

Highs:
 

EWR: 100
LGA: 98
PHL: 96
TEB: 96 * non intra hours measure
BLM: 96  * non intra hours measure
ACY: 95
New Brnswck: 95
TTN: 93
JFK: 93
NYC: 93
ISP: 92

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

1 hour ago, Intensewind002 said:

Picked up a whopping 0.11" here, so much for the flood watch

About the same here. Didn’t even make it through the trees. Grass is browning. The south shore summer flash drought is a real thing. People who do not live here just do not get it. It’s a micro climate seasonal desert. 

[bluewave]

13 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

No I mean sky conditions, it's been mostly sunny here the last two days (even now.)

I don't even see any clouds in the sky.

Near 90 was the forecast for today, but no one had mid and upper 90s like we're seeing right now. It's the hottest day since late June.

Not a drop of rain yet-- didn't get anything yesterday either.

 

Most of the models had mid to upper 90s. Plus you can’t use convective outlooks as an IMBY forecast. It’s a general forecast for the outlook region. Some areas got very little rain and others had flooding. 

[the_other_guy]

7 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

About the same here. Didn’t even make it through the trees. Grass is browning. The south shore summer flash drought is a real thing. People who do not live here just do not get it. It’s a micro climate seasonal desert. 

Enjoy it. Like living in a rain forest in the trees/hills of westchester

[steve392]

73 out, had fog driving in but sun was quickly burning it off.  Already disgusting out.

[Brian5671]

Looks like good chances of rain today and tomorrow

[jm1220]

7 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

About the same here. Didn’t even make it through the trees. Grass is browning. The south shore summer flash drought is a real thing. People who do not live here just do not get it. It’s a micro climate seasonal desert. 

Thankfully the Rockaways to Long Beach did get maybe a half inch from the storms that grazed the barrier islands, but seen it happen many times. Can be boring as hell for months behind the seabreeze in the marine layer. 

[SACRUS]

 

77 / 73 partly cloudy with brightening skies.   Hot / humid  90s - mid/upper 90s in the clearer hot areas.  Scattered/storms and rain later this evening.   Warm/humid Thu - Fri - clouds and more widespread showers as the front is slow to progress - enough sun could get some to 90 but very isolated.   The weekend looks 80% dry/sunny warm/humid mainly 80s, some to 90 in the hot spots. Overall warm p hot and humid pattern turning hotter by mid month.  Storms/showers look persistently to form and keep it overall wettra.

 

7/9 : Hot / humid - storms
7/10 - 7/11 : Widespread storms, rain, clouds 
7/12 - 7/14:  Warm - humid - storms chances limited 90s - mainly 80s
7/15 : Overall hotter - humid and wetter

 

[SACRUS]

 

 

Records:

Highs: 

EWR: 104 (1993)
NYC: 106 (1936)
LGA: 98 (1993)
JFK: 101 (1993)
New Brnswck: 105 (1936)

Lows: 

EWR: 56 (1963)
NYC: 54 (1963)
NYC: 57 (1963)
JFK: 55 (1963)
New Brnswck: 46 (1923)

Historical:

1860 - A hot blast of air in the middle of a sweltering summer pushed the mercury up to 115 degrees at Fort Scott and Lawrence, KS. (David Ludlum)

1876: The minimum temperature of 80° or above on the 9th and 10th were the warmest two consecutive nights ever in Washington, DC.(Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA)

1882 - Ice formed on the streets of Cheyenne, WY, during a rare summer freeze. (David Ludlum)

1936 - The temperature hit an all-time record high of 106 degrees at the Central Park Observatory in New York City, a record which lasted until LaGuardia Airport hit 107 degrees on July 3rd in 1966. (The Weather Channel)

1938: A deadly, estimated F4 tornado moved east-southeast across the eastern edge of Andover, SD to north of Bristol, SD. 17 buildings were destroyed at Andover, and at least one home was completely swept away. An elderly person was killed at the western edge of Andover and a couple died in a home at the southern edge of town. About two hours later, another estimated F4 tornado moved east-northeast from two miles northeast of White, South Dakota in Brookings County to Hendricks, MN. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1968 - Columbus, MS received 15.68 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a record for the state. (The Weather Channel)

 

1979: Hurricane Bob was born in the Gulf of Mexico, becoming the first Atlantic Hurricane to be given a male name.

1982: Wind shear caused the crash of Pam Am flight 759 after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana. 145 people on the plane and 8 people on the ground were killed. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1987 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather in Michigan. A tornado near Munising, MI, destroyed part of a commercial dog kennel, and one of the missing dogs was later found unharmed in a tree top half a mile away. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Twenty-three cities in the eastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Alpena, MI, and Buffalo, NY, suffered through their sixth straight day of record heat. The percentage of total area in the country in the grips of severe to extreme drought reached 43 percent, the fourth highest total of record. The record of 61 percent occurred during the summer of 1934. (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Morning thunderstorms produced very heavy rain in southern Lower Michigan and northern Indiana. Up to 5.6 inches of rain was reported in Berrien County, MI. Sioux Falls SD reported a record high of 108 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1992: Severe thunderstorms produced a swath of very large and damaging hail and damaging winds. Golf ball-size hail and 60 mph winds were reported on the west side of Decatur, IL with numerous roofs and automobiles damaged by the hail. Hail grew to nearly the size of baseballs by the time the storms reached the Charleston/Mattoon areas. Total damage from the storms was estimated around $5 million dollars.  (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1993: One of the strongest and most long-lived wind events of recorded history in the Midwest pounded portions of Nebraska and Iowa. The wind event, called a Derecho, actually started near Goodland, KS and raced across southern Nebraska and into Iowa traveling at 60 mph. In the Omaha metro area, tree and property damage was heavy as 70 to 100 mph winds caused $7 million dollars in damage. Also in Nebraska, power line damage alone totaled $30 million dollars and total property damage was estimated near $100 million dollars. This wind storm even spawned a tornado in the city of Lincoln, NE causing damage to the north end of town. As the derecho moved into southwest Iowa, 13 high-tension power line poles were downed on the east side of Council Bluffs. Winds continued in the 85 mph range as far as east as Fremont County, Iowa before finally subsiding in the central part of the Hawkeye State. 11 inches of rain fell overnight in Scranton, IA. Much of the downtown of Davenport, IA was under water as the Great Flood of 1993 raged on.

1993" record daily high temperatures were set at: Newark, NJ: 104°, NYC-Kennedy Airport, NY: 101°, Greensboro, NC: 101°, Atlantic City, NY: 100°, Wallops Island, VA: 100°, Dulles Airport, VA: 99°, NYC-LaGuardia, NY: 98°, Concord, NH: 95° and Islip, NY: 93°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2003: A new July maximum temperature record was set as Anchorage, AK hit 84°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)