August 2026

[psv88]

Of course storms die overhead and blow up to my east.  Crazy light show 

[Prue11]

Loudest and most thunder and lightning I’ve heard in a while 

[Prue11]

Just now, psv88 said:

Of course storms die overhead and blow up to my east.  Crazy light show 

Pretty wild here in miller place 

[Stormlover74]

 

 

[qg_omega]

One of the more impressive lightning events

[psv88]

8 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

One of the more impressive lightning events

Lots of CTC across the sky. 

[Cfa]

This is easily top 2 most prolific lightning producing storms I’ve seen in my decade living in LI, possibly number 1. Frequent CTG’s in all directions and surround sound thunder. This was so random.

[SACRUS]

Today's Highs:
EWR: 95
New Brnswck: 94
BLM: 94
TEB: 94
PHL: 94
LGA: 94
ACY: 93
TTN: 93
NYC: 91
ISP: 91
JFK: 90

[winterwx21]

2 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Crazy here. Wow

How about you? @winterwx21

Wow, INSANE storm. The sound of hail pounding against the house was something else. Some of the hail was dime sized. I ran outside to get some to put in the freezer. We got 1 inch of rain in a very short period of time. A bunch of very close lightning strikes. 60 to 70 mph wind gusts which I'm sure caused quite a bit of damage. When I was outside I could hear lots of sirens all around. 

We had a couple power hits here but both times the power came back on very quickly. Thankful to have power. My internet was out for awhile which is why it took me this long to respond to you. Even now it's very slow. I'm glad to hear that you have power. That was one heck of a storm. 

[jm1220]

About 0.4". 

[Stormlover74]

4 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

Wow, INSANE storm. The sound of hail pounding against the house was something else. Some of the hail was dime sized. I ran outside to get some to put in the freezer. We got 1 inch of rain in a very short period of time. A bunch of very close lightning strikes. 60 to 70 mph wind gusts which I'm sure caused quite a bit of damage. When I was outside I could hear lots of sirens all around. 

We had a couple power hits here but both times the power came back on very quickly. Thankful to have power. My internet was out for awhile which is why it took me this long to respond to you. Even now it's very slow. I'm glad to hear that you have power. That was one heck of a storm. 

Yeah managed to keep power this time but alot of trees and power lines down.  It's crazy how it blew up right over us and became the main line

[FPizz]

@winterwarlock not too bad by us?  Im away, but see my station only got .06" with a max wind of 33.  Blossomed after our county?  I was driving down to obx

[gravitylover]

Good storm. Lotsa boomers, good light show, a quick inch of rain without much wind. The dog shook herself to sleep under the bed

[doncat]

Kinda skipped around my West shore station with 0.18". More intense mid island with 0.50" rain and booming thunder. High of 95° today.

[Stormlover74]

13 minutes ago, FPizz said:

@winterwarlock not too bad by us?  Im away, but see my station only got .06" with a max wind of 33.  Blossomed after our county?  I was driving down to obx

I think the initial line collapsed and reformed to your east 

[steve392]

One if the crazier storms of recent memory.  Flooding and trees diwn across several of our rail lines. One train struck tree on pascack Valley line and enormous one came down in millburn. 

 

Had wonderful clouds coming across shark inlet earlier. 

 

[Intensewind002]

1 hour ago, Cfa said:

This is easily top 2 most prolific lightning producing storms I’ve seen in my decade living in LI, possibly number 1. Frequent CTG’s in all directions and surround sound thunder. This was so random.

Frequent nearby CTGs with no rain falling made for a wild scene here earlier, I don't think I've ever seen that before, I picked up about 0.14" overall with winds gusting in the 35-40 mph range at peak I'd guess

[winterwx21]

1 hour ago, Stormlover74 said:

Yeah managed to keep power this time but alot of trees and power lines down.  It's crazy how it blew up right over us and became the main line

Yeah I was outside running, and had just enough time to complete the run. It got bad out there about 5 minutes after I got back to the house. When I went out to run I figured we'd get hit closer to 6pm, but as you said a new line formed almost on top of us while the line that was going to hit us later fell apart. Man the summer storms in our area are becoming more and more intense. 

[steve392]

Got exactly 1" of rain out of today's storm. 

[STORMANLI]

0.04" from seabreeze front around 2pm and 0.19"  with thunderstorms  715pm~9pm.  Marginal wind gusts.

[jm1220]

LI severe storms come from the north in almost all cases, the other ones being stray storms on the seabreeze boundary that can sometimes blow up around Mineola/Westbury. Every now and again severe can reach western Nassau if conditions are right but for Suffolk it’s game over. Long Beach/Rockaway has been hit a couple times recently by bowing out storms coming east from NJ but they die once they reach Jones Beach. 

[Rock888]

11 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

LI severe storms come from the north in almost all cases, the other ones being stray storms on the seabreeze boundary that can sometimes blow up around Mineola/Westbury. Every now and again severe can reach western Nassau if conditions are right but for Suffolk it’s game over. Long Beach/Rockaway has been hit a couple times recently by bowing out storms coming east from NJ but they die once they reach Jones Beach. 

A notable exception was the Labor Day (09/07/98) squall line. That thing was a beast all the way from NJ through eastern Suffolk.  

[Snowlover11]

Wild afternoon in Nanuet.

 

Started off as a little blip on the radar and quickly got organized and went straight nuclear. Had two major gust of wind, right at the beginning of the storm and then during a secondary blow up of storms. Had marble/dime sized hail. It was intense for a few minutes. Some of the craziest Lightning I can remember. Been living up here 4 years and that’s the first time losing powet I can remember. Luckily it was only out for an hour and change.

[bluewave]

15 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Was there an actual tornado though? The F2 on Labor Day 1998 was a real tornado that caused real tornado damage.

The actual tornado was in Brooklyn. But since the rotation remained so strong on radar into SW Nassau, the NWS maintained the tornado warmings out of an abundance of caution.

I was glad there was no tornado when it got to Long Beach. But it was really cool to see the swirl in the clouds directly overhead when the weakened supercell moved over my area.

September 1998 was the strongest tornado near the South Shore in my time living there. The Labor Day Derecho caused the sky to go dark between 2-3 in the afternoon. Then I had my only .75 hail and severe gusts from a single storm on the South Shore.

The actual tornado was in Lynbrook and the damage path was clearly visible near the neighborhood close to Sunrise Highway. 

 

[MANDA]

Picked up 1.35" rainfall from yesterday's T-Storm.  

Total over the last 7 days 4.34".  

Since 6/1/26: 18.84"

Since 7/1/26: 13.33"

[SACRUS]

75 / DP: 74 some clouds.  Hot/humid with storms South Florida pattern continues  day 3 of the heatwave for many some scattered storms later now nearly as widespread as Friday.  Overall theme continues to Tuesday which for some will make a 6 days heatwave before cold front come through later wed/thu.  Period of drier / near normal between 8/14 - 8/17 before moderating back to / above normal and the next push for a heat 8/19 and beyond.

 

8/8 - 8/11 : Hot / Humid daily storm chances - heatwave
8/12 8/13 :  front cooler 
8/14 - 8/17 : near - below normal much drier
8/19 - beyond : overall warmer next chance at some heat (90+)

 

[SACRUS]

Records:

Highs:

EWR: 101 (2001)
NYC: 99 (2001)
LGA: 98 (2001)
JFK: 99 (2001)


Lows:

EWR: 56 (1989)
NYC: 54 (1903)
LGA: 59 (1989)
JFK: 58 (1989)

 

Historical:

 

1874: Swarms of Rocky Mountain locust invaded Denver, Colorado. Millions were seen cruising through the air. The insects were picked up by a thunderstorm gust front and carried into the city. The grasshoppers ravaged crops in surrounding counties for the last month.

1878 - The temperature at Denver, CO, soars to an all-time record high of 105 degrees. (The Weather Channel)

1881 - A cloudburst and flash flood occurred at Central Springs, CO, and Idaho Springs, CO. (David Ludlum)

1882 - An August snowstorm was reported by a ship on Lake Michigan. A thick cloud reportedly burst on the decks covering them with snow and slush six inches deep. Snow showers were observed at shore points that day. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1924: Hancock, Minnesota: A lightning bolt during a dry thunderstorm kills 47 cattle at a local farm. The livestock had crowded together under the branches of a large spreading willow tree when the bolt struck the tree. Bodily contact seems to have provided the means of conveying the charge among the animals. (Ref. WxDoctor)

1928: A hurricane moved in from the Bahamas and made landfall near Stuart, FL. Damage was heaviest from south Brevard to St. Lucie Counties. Houses were unroofed and citrus trees and large oaks uprooted. Coastal highways were flooded and many bridges were undermined. Two people died. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1939: A tornado outbreak across central and southern Lower Michigan resulted in two deaths and about 100 injuries. A violent tornado moved across the southeast part of Kalamazoo, MI destroying dozens of homes and killing two people. More homes were destroyed and six people were injured in northern Kent County, northeast of Cedar Springs. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1967: Las Vegas, NV was hit by two storms which bore in from the south and covered a 50-square-mile area. Damage was estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Showboat Hotel on Boulder Highway was forced to close its casino, restaurant, and showroom when muddy floodwaters invaded through the kitchen doors, passed clearly through the large building and out the front doors. At Caesars Palace on the Strip, a casino boss said the water was deep enough in the front of the hotel to "swim in". Over 10 inches of rain fell during a two week period to cause the Great Fairbanks Flood in Alaska. $100 million dollars in damage resulted. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History)

1969: Severe thunderstorms moved north central South Dakota to the southeast sections of the state. Golf ball size hail was reported just west of Mobridge while Wessington Springs had tennis ball sized hail. Two people were injured in Sioux Falls when strong thunderstorm winds blew in a plate glass window at a drug store. Near Mitchell a barn was devastated so badly by a tornado it appeared as if it had exploded. Portions of the building could not be found and the same tornado carried a steel granary a half mile. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1972: An unusual mid-summer tornado struck near the town of Byers, Texas, in Clay County. Damage was limited to barns and storage sheds on several farms east of Byers. The tornado exhibited an unusual movement, from southeast to northwest. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)

1980: Dangerous Hurricane Allen briefly weakened to a Category 4 storm as it skirted the Yucatan Peninsula. Already a Category 5 twice during its life cycle, Allen would briefly regain Category 5 intensity for a record third time on the 9th as it headed for the Texas coast. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History)
 

1983 - The temperature at Big Horn Basin, WY, reached 115 degrees to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel)

1987 - Thunderstorm rains in eastern Nebraska sent the Wahoo River and Ithica River above flood stage. Thunderstorm rains in western Iowa sent the Nishnabotna River over flood stage. Up to seven inches of rain deluged the Council Bluffs area Friday evening and Saturday morning. Thunderstorms produced 4.4 inches of rain in three hours Friday evening, along with golf ball size hail. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a slow moving cold front produced severe weather from central Kansas to southern Wisconsin late in the day. Thunderstorms in Iowa produced hail three inches in diameter at Vinton, and produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Donohue and near Mount Pleasant. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1989 - A total of ninety-nine cities in the central and eastern U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Alpena MI with a reading of 40 degrees. Mount Mitchell NC was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of 35 degrees. Early evening thunderstorms around Las Vegas NV produced wind gusts to 116 mph. The high winds damaged or destroyed about eighty- two aircraft at Henderson Sky Harbor Airport and McCarran International Airport, causing fourteen million dollars damage. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)

[SACRUS]

Dep through the first week 8/7

PHL: +4.1 (3.01)
EWR: +2.2  (4.01)
JFK: +1.9 (3.68)
ISP: +1.9 (2.55)
LGA: +1.7  (2.75)
NYC: +1.3 (3.14)

[Brian5671]

Wild storm here with constant CTG lightning last night-moved in really fast