June 2026

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 97 (2017)
NYC: 93 (2017)
LGA: 96 (2017)
JFK: 92 (2017)


Lows:

EWR: 47 (1951)
NYC: 48 (1979)
LGA: 49 (1979)
JFK: 49 (1980)

 

Historical:

 

1881 - Severe thunderstorms spawned more than half a dozen tornadoes in the Lower Missouri Valley. Five of the tornadoes touched down near Saint Joseph MO. In south central Kansas a tornado nearly wiped out the town of Floral. Hail and high winds struck Iowa and southern Minnesota. In Minnesota, Blue Earth City reported five inches of rain in one hour. (David Ludlum)

1885: A tornado in Iowa blew part of a train off the tracks, injuring three passengers. Three coaches and a baggage car were lifted into the air and onto a field. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1899: New Richmond, Wisconsin: A killer tornado rampages through New Richmond, Wisconsin, 114 people die, many attending an outdoor circus.

1915: An estimated F4 tornado moved northeast from northwest of Waterville, Iowa crossing the Mississippi River two miles south of Ferryville, Wisconsin. A man and his daughter were killed in one of three homes that were obliterated southwest of "Heytman," a small railroad station on the Mississippi River. 60 buildings and eight homes were destroyed in Wisconsin. This tornado caused approximately $200,000 in damage. In addition to this tornado, another estimated F4 tornado moved northeast across Fayette and Clayton Counties in northeast Iowa. One farm was devastated, the house and barn leveled. Heavy machinery was thrown 300 yards. Clothing was carried two miles.

1918: Victorville, CA recorded their highest temperature for June at 114°. This was also their second highest temperature ever (116° - 7/10/2002). This was followed be their warmest night on record with a low of 88°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1947 - A heavy wet snow blanketed much of southern and central Wyoming, and gave many places their heaviest and latest snow of record. Totals included 18.4 inches at Lander, 8.7 inches at Cheyenne, and 4.5 inches at Casper. (11th-12th) (The Weather Channel)

1948: The Columbia River Basin flood peaked on this date in the Northwest. The flood produced the highest water level in the basin since the flood there in 1894. The damage estimate for the 1948 flood was $101 million, and 75 lives were lost. 


1956: The upper Midwest was in the midst of a six-day stretch of 90 degree plus temperatures. The high of 97° at Chicago, IL and 95° at Rockford, IL set daily high temperature records. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1959: A heavy thunderstorm was accompanied by a small tornado at Celeron near Jamestown, NY and gave a two inch rainfall in 75 minutes in Colden, NY. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1968: Tropical Storm Abby moved northeast and crossed central Florida, briefly reaching hurricane status in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical storm then moved along the coast of Florida and into Georgia, then made a loop as a tropical depression through the Carolinas, moving south to the North Carolina/South Carolina coast. Locations that received record daily rainfalls included: Philadelphia, PA: 3.05 inches, Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC : 2.23 inches, Dulles Airport at Sterling, VA: 1.88 inches, Wilmington, DE: 1.75 inches, Newark, NJ: 1.74 inches and Williamsport, PA: 1.30 inches. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1969 - Record late season snows covered parts of Montana. Five inches was reported at Great Falls and east of Broadus. Billings, MT, tied their June record with lows of 32 degrees on the 12th and the 13th. (The Weather Channel)

1978: Lightning killed a 14 year old boy running home to avoid the rain at Lauderhill, FL. The lightning struck a pine tree near the boy and severely burned his legs and knocked his shoes off. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)


1983 - The state of Utah was beseiged by floods and mudslides. Streets in downtown Salt Lake City were sandbagged and turned into rivers of relief. The town of Thistle was completely inundated as a mudslide made a natural dam. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced softball size hail around Fremont and Ames, and 3.5 inches of rain in less than one hour. Four and a half inches in less than an hour caused flooding around Ithica, NE. A tornado destroyed a mobile home near Broken Bow, NE, injuring both occupants. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Fifteen cities in the southeastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Asheville with a reading of 40 degrees. Drought conditions continued to intensify across the eastern half of the nation. Rainfall at Nashville, TN, was running 12.5 inches below normal. (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from Tennessee Valley to the Central Appalachians in the afternoon and evening, and produced severe weather in Oklahoma and Texas during the evening and night. Thunderstorms spawned ten tornadoes, and there were 164 reports of large hail and damaging winds. Thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 100 mph at Amarillo, TX, and wind gusts to 110 mph at Denton TX. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Tucumcari NM. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

 

1994: Dickinson County was hard hit when 60 to 80 mph winds struck throwing a sail boat into a tree along the Spirit Lake shoreline. Reports from around Emmet, Dickinson and Clay Counties indicated rainfall amounts from 2 to as much as 6 inches within a two hour period. Flash flooding was also reported in Lyon County where an incredible three inches of rain fell in a 30 minute period in the town of George. A tornado formed in Plymouth County and moved through the town of Le Mars, causing about $3 million dollars in damage. Approximately 120 buildings were damaged with 2 x 6 boards driven through neighboring houses. The tornado picked up a dog house with the dog still inside. The dog house was deposited a few blocks away, upside down, with the dog still inside. The dog was not injured. Hail destroyed 70,000 acres of cropland across South Dakota.
In Hand County, South Dakota, a thunderstorm caused an estimated $3 million dollars in crop damage. Hail, the largest being baseball size, was reported in drifts of three to four feet high. About 70 thousand acres of cropland and pastures were completely destroyed. Pheasants and ducks were killed by the hail and many cattle injured. Many windows were broken in homes, holes were punched in mobile homes, damaged occurred to contents of homes from hail which entered through windows, and many vehicles were extensively damaged. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2002: (Kearney, Nebraska area): Hailstorm caused $2 million in agricultural losses. More than 22,000 acres of corn, soybeans and alfalfa were severely damaged or destroyed. (Ref. Hail Events by Michael Mogil)
A supercell thunderstorm dumped copious amount of large hail across Buffalo and Kearney Counties in Nebraska. Hail up to 5 inches in diameter fell, injuring 15 people, and doing $100 million in damages. In excess of 6,000 structures sustained damage. In some cases, hailstones penetrated shingles, sheeting, and interior ceiling drywall. One person reported an 8 inch diameter hole in their roof. Another person reported hailstones landing on the living room couch after falling through the roof.(Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2005 - A tornado in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged 22 homes and produced $3.6 million in damage (Associated Press).

[psv88]

Big poker game here tonight. Usually do it outdoors. I’m thinking I should be fine since rain will be scattered. Thoughts?

[Santa Claus]

8 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Big poker game here tonight. Usually do it outdoors. I’m thinking I should be fine since rain will be scattered. Thoughts?

can i come

[psv88]

15 minutes ago, Santa Claus said:

can i come

Sorry. No parking for reindeer. 

[Poker2015]

24 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Big poker game here tonight. Usually do it outdoors. I’m thinking I should be fine since rain will be scattered. Thoughts?

I heard poker...

[SACRUS]

Already to 87 here 

[steve392]

The cell that popped up over me ladt night dropped a nice 1/4" of rain.  All the plants look alive today.  Nice cool breeze. 

[Picard]

4 hours ago, MANDA said:

Missed out on any decent rainfall last night.  Just .07".

Additional rain chances over the next few days.  Will be localized and some locations will do better than others but some heavy downpours possible in spots for sure.

Another steamy day today.

I had exactly 0.5" in the plastic gauge on my back deck post.  It put on a helluva show that I didn't expect. You'll catch the next one and then I'll miss out.

It doesn't show on the map, but I think parts of far NW Sussex County had well in excess of a inch since they got hit with the earlier part of the round too.  

Edit: 1.27" at Sandyston Mesonet (Rutgers)

[Poker2015]

Not a drop of rain last night, just some lightning.

[weathermedic]

91/74 HI-100

[weathermedic]

1pm NWS Obs:

JFK-91

EWR-92

LAG-N/A

CP-87 

Dews a couple of degrees lower (right around 70) with the westerly wind component

[FPizz]

45 minutes ago, Poker2015 said:

Not a drop of rain last night, just some lightning.

So annoying that it missed.  My mom over in piscataway, due east of here, got a decent storm and lost power for a few minutes.  Line reformed right after our town.

[Poker2015]

25 minutes ago, FPizz said:

So annoying that it missed.  My mom over in piscataway, due east of here, got a decent storm and lost power for a few minutes.  Line reformed right after our town.

The usual. Just north of us got the severe storm too.

[LoboLeader1]

92 here currently. 

Dew Point

70 F

Humidity

54 %

[NEG NAO]

40 % Chance of Severe Watch Being Issued

SWO from KWNS

[mgerb]

48 minutes ago, FPizz said:

So annoying that it missed.  My mom over in piscataway, due east of here, got a decent storm and lost power for a few minutes.  Line reformed right after our town.

Yup. Lucked out with that one. Looked like the line was mostly collapsing (with occasional localized pulses), but strengthened just to my west and dropped an unexpected 0.44". Luck of the draw. 

[hudsonvalley21]

3 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

40 % Chance of Severe Watch Being Issued

SWO from KWNS

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md1106.html

[TheClimateChanger]

7 hours ago, bluewave said:

Multiple record highs on Thursday with a drought upgrade across the area.

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK, NY
236 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2026

...RECORD DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT NEWARK NJ...

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 97 DEGREES THURSDAY, JUNE 11 AT NEWARK
LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 96
DEGREES, LAST SET IN 2000. RECORDS FOR THE NEWARK NJ AREA GO BACK TO
1931.

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK, NY
234 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2026

...RECORD DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT LAGUARDIA NY...

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 96 DEGREES THURSDAY, JUNE 11 AT LAGUARDIA
AIRPORT. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 96 DEGREES, SET IN 1984. RECORDS
FOR THE LAGUARDIA NY AREA GO BACK TO 1939.

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK, NY
231 AM EDT FRI JUN 12 2026

...RECORD DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT KENNEDY NY...

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 95 DEGREES THURSDAY, JUNE 11 AT JOHN F.
KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 93
DEGREES, SET IN 1984. RECORDS FOR THE KENNEDY NY AREA GO BACK TO 1948.

 

In New Jersey, severe drought expanded across much of the northern portion of the state and into New York and eastern Pennsylvania. Abnormally dry conditions expanded across southeastern New York, while moderate drought expanded in southern Connecticut and western Massachusetts. Severe drought also expanded across eastern Massachusetts, eastern Rhode Island, and portions of eastern Maryland. Extreme drought was introduced in southern New Jersey and expanded into Delaware and eastern Maryland. A combination of short- and long-term drought is affecting agriculture as well as groundwater and surface water resources throughout the region.

Incredible @bluewave! Was it supposed to be this hot? Just an incredible start to summer for the summer lovers. This shows the projected ranks for average high temperatures for the first half of June [using observed values for 1-11 and forecast highs 12-15]. Top 5 heat all over, record heat at Newark, NJ and Concord, NH. It has certainly been a very solid start to the summer season.

 

[TheClimateChanger]

Just now, TheClimateChanger said:

Incredible @bluewave! Was it supposed to be this hot? Just an incredible start to summer for the summer lovers. This shows the projected ranks for average high temperatures for the first half of June [using observed values for 1-11 and forecast highs 12-15]. Top 5 heat all over, record heat at Newark, NJ and Concord, NH. It has certainly been a very solid start to the summer season.

 

Looking at Newark and using the expanded records [back to 1843], we see the current record is 86.5F from 2008 & 1984 [excepting the 3 higher years - all of which are based on only a single date's worth of data]. This brings the EWR average up to 86.6F by Monday - incredibly impressive.

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Trim the vegetation around the KNYC sensors or move it to another location. It gets worse and worse each year the accuracy of Central Park highest during the warm season.

[NEG NAO]

Severe Watch Issued For Metro

WWUS from KWNS

WOUS from KWNS

[NEG NAO]

this is going to be another "pop up" storm day radars showing activity east of Allentown and other areas widespread through the region