July 2026

[oceanctyguy]

4 minutes ago, guinness77 said:

How long has that damn cell been sitting there in South Jersey?? Yikes 

Literally hours but most of it is offshore at this point. 

[Stormlover74]

Aqi 224 now

[jm1220]

5 minutes ago, oceanctyguy said:

Literally hours but most of it is offshore at this point. 

Radar estimating over 5” down around Manahawkin. 

[donsutherland1]

Four photos of the smoke today:

[jm1220]

Just now, Stormlover74 said:

Aqi 224 now

Really hoping this crap clears up tomorrow AM. Would be good to have one nice day before more crud on Saturday. 

[EWR757]

8 minutes ago, oceanctyguy said:

Literally hours but most of it is offshore at this point. 

The top of the TS at it's peak was around 60,000 ft earlier this evening.   Impressive, to say the least.  

The vertical extent of the smoke wasn't as thick today was it was yesterday.   Today the top was around 8,000 ft even though the surface visibility was less.  Yesterday the smoke was thicker aloft and the sun wasn't even visible.  

[Nibor]

Hoboken ~7:30-8:00
 

[JonClaw]

Nearing 300 AQI in some spots in the city. Con Ed cut voltage to my building. Hopefully not related.

[MANDA]

5 minutes ago, JonClaw said:

Nearing 300 AQI in some spots in the city. Con Ed cut voltage to my building. Hopefully not related.

Do I remember correctly they were over 500 in 2023????  I honestly forget but it was bad back then.  Couldn’t stay outside for any more than a few minutes.

[Stormlover74]

3 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Do I remember correctly they were over 500 in 2023????  I honestly forget but it was bad back then.  Couldn’t stay outside for any more than a few minutes.

Chicago was over 600 earlier.

[FPizz]

5 hours ago, MJO812 said:

My AQi is 153 right now

Found my screenshots from 2023, was over 400 then

[FPizz]

4 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Do I remember correctly they were over 500 in 2023????  I honestly forget but it was bad back then.  Couldn’t stay outside for any more than a few minutes.

Found this one i grabbed.  Pics were way worse too, but still bad today

[winterwx21]

9 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Do I remember correctly they were over 500 in 2023????  I honestly forget but it was bad back then.  Couldn’t stay outside for any more than a few minutes.

Yeah it got up close to 500 in 2023 which obviously is hazardous. So while this is bad, it doesn't compare to 2023. I was outside doing work in the garden earlier and it didn't bother me. I have bad allergies to things like tree pollen in the spring, but luckily this smoke doesn't seem to bother my eyes. 

[MJO812]

18 minutes ago, FPizz said:

Found my screenshots from 2023, was over 400 then

I just found this one

[Snowlover11]

Really smokey crossing the TZ Bridge. Cleared up a bit driving south into Yonkers. Once passed Yonkers it’s smokey again.

[Picard]

The reported AQI in Duluth, MN right now is 1129!  
I've seen a few others today just over 1000 in the upper mid west.  We don't really track AQI regularly, but that is nuts.
That cell down around LBI was nuts.  

I didn't smell the smoke as much sitting outside tonight, as I did earlier.

[winterwx21]

3 hours ago, Santa Claus said:

just amazing that no matter the weather at least half of the local pickleball courts have people on them.  the air is cancer what are you people doing

You would hope that people with underlying health conditions like asthma or COPD would know to not exercise outside in these conditions. I assume it's mainly healthy people outside on the courts in these conditions. As many doctors have pointed out, conditions like today are manageable for most healthy people. They were able to play a baseball game in Philly this evening. People with underlying conditions can suffer an acute serious problem in conditions like today, but for people that are healthy it would take prolonged exposure (like weeks or months) to cause serious problems. Just a day or two in a reasonable AQI (like 150 to 200 like we had most of today) isn't going to cause a problem beyond minor issues like eye burning or nose irritation. 

[rclab]

18 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I just found this one

I was disappointed that Wills pet didn’t make a cameo appearance in my photo. As always …..

 

[cleetussnow]

55 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I just found this one

i was just going to repost that. Classic

[Santa Claus]

1 hour ago, winterwx21 said:

You would hope that people with underlying health conditions like asthma or COPD would know to not exercise outside in these conditions. I assume it's mainly healthy people outside on the courts in these conditions. As many doctors have pointed out, conditions like today are manageable for most healthy people. They were able to play a baseball game in Philly this evening. People with underlying conditions can suffer an acute serious problem in conditions like today, but for people that are healthy it would take prolonged exposure (like weeks or months) to cause serious problems. Just a day or two in a reasonable AQI (like 150 to 200 like we had most of today) isn't going to cause a problem beyond minor issues like eye burning or nose irritation. 

we got the marlboro man posting here

[MANDA]

Dense smoke advisory for the Great Lakes.  Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.  

[donsutherland1]

Smoky sunrise.

[MJO812]

Air quality is still high at 177 but bearable compared to yesterday

[jm1220]

35 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Air quality is still high at 177 but bearable compared to yesterday

We should hopefully be clearing out today. 

[SACRUS]

76 / 61 partyl cloudy with the worst of the smoke heading south.  Mid 80s to 90 in the warmest locations.  Saturday severe risk and rain / flood potential increasing.  Clearing out for t=Sunday world cup game.  Trough into the northeast 7/19 - 7/24 more rain/storm chances Tue-Wed keep heat south, enough sun / less rain could see temps spike wed-thu.  Overall near / below normal the next week.  7/27 and beyond western heat coming east , see if the W. Atlantic ridge retro back west.

 

[SACRUS]

 

Records:

Highs:

 

EWR: 100 (2012)
NYC: 100 (1953)
LGA: 98 (2012)
JFK: 97 (1969)



Lows:

EWR: 56 (1946)
NYC: 57 (1892)
LGA: 60 (1946)
JFK: 61 (1989)



Historical:
 

 

1902: Temperature range was 38° from 58° minimum to 97° maximum in Baltimore City, MD.

1934 - One of the worst heat waves in the history of the nation commenced. During the last two weeks of the month extreme heat claimed 679 lives in Michigan, including 300 in Detroit alone. (The Weather Channel)

1941 - A prolonged heat wave over Washington State finally came to an end. Lightning from untimely thunderstorms was responsible for 598 forest fires. (David Ludlum)

1942: A great flood developed over the Smethport area in Pennsylvania, resulting in an estimated 34.50 inches of rain in just one day, including 30.60 inches in only six hours, setting a world record. The official observing site, Smethport Highway Shed, reported only 13.08 inches for the entire month because the flood consumed the gauge after 6.68" of rain. The total results from the substitution of the officially estimated amount for the amount measured.

1943: Col. James Duckworth became the first person to fly an airplane into a hurricane. Duckworth took his AT-6 trainer right into the eye of a category 1 hurricane off the Texas coast.  (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1952 - Thunderstorms helped the temperatur at Key West, FL, to dip to 69 degrees, to equal their July record established on the first of July in 1923. (The Weather Channel)

1957 - On a warm and sunny day at Wilmington, DE, with a high of 86 degrees, a dust devil suddenly appeared. It tore most the roof off one house, and stripped shingles from a neighboring house. A TV aerial was toppled, and clothes were blown off clothes lines. (The Weather Channel)

1978: Severe thunderstorms ripped across southwest sections of South Dakota. One storm which dumped hail larger than golf balls and had winds which exceeded 80 mph was labeled as one of the most destructive to strike several western counties. Bennett County alone lost 20,000 acres and 600,000 bushels of unharvested winter wheat. The storms also did considerable property damage. Total price tag for the storms was near $28 million dollars. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1980: The maximum temperature ever recorded in Atlanta, GA was 105 °F on this date. The maximum temperature ever recorded in Macon, GA was 108 °F on this date. The high of 110 degrees at Newington, GA was just two degrees shy of the state record. (Extreme Weather pp. 22, 273, by Christopher C. Burt)

1981: Severe thunderstorm winds ripped a 10,000 square foot hole in a 90-foot high pavilion at Sea World in Orlando, FL. The storm panicked a crowd of 550 tourists. One death occurred due to injury and heart attack, and 15 people were injured. The canopy was made of fiberglass and Teflon, designed to withstand 120 mph winds.

 

1985: An F1 tornado touched down, 10 miles east of Raymond, SD destroying two cattle sheds and several buildings. Heavy rains, strong winds and hail up to 2.75 inches in diameter produced considerable damage to farm buildings between Raymond and Garden City. Rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches caused additional crop losses from erosion. A thunderstorm near Kennebec produced wind gusts to 80 mph and small hail was observed. Several car windows were broke from wind and small hail. A damage path from wind and hail continued to Clear Lake, to south of Gary and into Minnesota to the east of Canby. Winds gusted to 70 mph and hail ranged from one to almost two inches in diameter. Highway 77, south of Clear Lake was impassable due to hail on the ground. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1987 - Slow moving thunderstorms caused flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas resulting in tragic loss of life. A bus and van leaving a summer youth camp stalled near the rapidly rising river, just west of the town of Comfort, and a powerful surge of water swept away 43 persons, mostly teenagers. Ten drowned in the floodwaters. Most of the others were rescued from tree tops by helicopter. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - A dozen cities in the eastern U.S., and six others in California, reported record high temperatures for the date. Downtown San Francisco, CA, with a high of 103 degrees, obliterated their previous record high of 82 degrees. Philadelphia, PA, reported a record five straight days of 100 degree heat, and Baltimore, MD, reported a record eight days of 100 degree weather for the year. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe weather along the Middle Atlantic Coast, and over southern New England. (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from South Dakota to Lousiana, with 126 reports of large hail and damaging winds during the day and night. Thunderstorms in Nebraska produced hail four inches in diameter in Frontier County, and at North Platte, causing millions of dollars damage to crops in Frontier County. Thunderstorms in Oklahoma produced wind gusts to 90 mph at Peggs. Tahlequah OK was drenched with 5.25 inches of rain. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

1993: All-time monthly record rainfall established already at Concordia, KS as rainfall records continued to fall across the Midwest during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993. Total rainfall so far was 13.26”; this broke the old record of 11.19”. On this date, two inches of rain fell in 12 minutes in parts of Montgomery County, Iowa. 12 inches fell in just three hours near Bamboo, WI.  (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1994: Atlanta, Georgia saw a record-tying, 14 straight days come to an end on this day. The entire month of July had 17.71 inches, the wettest month ever in the Georgia capital.


1995: A 15-year-old boy was injured by lightning while touching an outdoor light switch at a swim and tennis club just outside Charlottesville, VA . He had been playing tennis and was leaving the courts due to the storm when he was struck.  (Ref. Lightning - Virginia Weather History)

1997: Tropical Storm Danny strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico off of the Louisiana Coast and moved slowly toward land. This marked only the third time in 126 years that four tropical storms had formed so early in the season (1886, 1959 were the other years). The storm would eventually stall over Mobile Bay, dumping incredible amounts of rain on the Alabama coast.  (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

2000: Intense storms produced a vivid lightning display in the early a.m. over Kansas City, KS/MO. 2,000+ cloud-to-ground bolts hit Johnson County between 2-3 a.m.; the number of intracloud bolts may have exceeded 20,000 in the same time span. (Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA)

2003: Denali National Park, Alaska: One inch of snow falls at Denali National Park Headquarters, the first occurrence of measurable snow ever recorded in July. (Ref. WxDoctor)

2005: Needles, CA reached a high temperature of 125°, recording their hottest temperature ever. Other daily records included: Palm Springs, CA: 121°, Borrego Springs, CA: 120°, Yuma, AZ: 117°, Las Vegas, NV: 116°, Phoenix, AZ: 116°, Kingman, AZ: 113°, Tucson, AZ: 111° and Winslow, AZ: 105°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

[SACRUS]

[WestBabylonWeather]

Really a bummer. Ducks game is gonna be cancelled. Bought a bunch of tickets. Fireworks were supposed to be after. 

[bluewave]

NYC needs to pick up 2.77” by the end of July to have their first average to above precipitation month since May 2025.

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=NYC&product=CLM&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off

Monthly Total Precipitation for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

2026	2.70	2.60	3.60	2.48	3.05	3.39	1.83	M	M	M	M	M	19.65
2025	0.61	2.60	5.52	3.25	6.58	2.46	4.03	2.21	2.76	4.08	2.09	3.38	39.57
2024	5.28	2.05	9.06	3.47	4.11	1.71	4.20	7.02	1.58	0.01	3.35	4.53	46.37

[TWCCraig]

Still a little bit of low level smoke, but skies are much clearer overall. It's great seeing the sun again!

HRRR brings some smoke back in later tonight with the sea breeze. Looks pretty clear by Sunday