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High of 90 here. 6th 90 degree day. Spent the morn, early afternoon at rockaway, missed any storms. same thing in the bx except for a brief shower so far.  Water temps at the Rockaways feel great, felt near typical peak warmth today. The forecast scared ppl off which made it even better without the crowds.

Lot of sun from the start, 84 dew 77 heat index 94.

79, dew 75 here.

JFK is 76 dew 76

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

It’s a good thing the low cloud deck marine layer in LB held off until after the 4th. It also looks like the dredging and beach extension created a very long sandbar. 

http://www.lbsurf.org/surf-camera-report/

Was there and can confirm that, I was wayy  out in mid calf deep water. Later in the day not as dramatic, had to head back closer to shore, didnt want to get stuck out there.  I never knew long beach for that so didnt know what to make of it.

9 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Read that them having 5 straight days of 85+ would be like NYC having 5 straight days of 101+

They reached 90, that's incredible for them.

The record of consecutive 80+ was 4 I believe. 

Breaking an all time record by 5 is very impressive. Major heat (relative to normal) has been a common theme there.

Imagine a high of 111 in the Park.

92 at home with a high of 93. 

At Long Beach now, where its feels less hot but more humid. Low 80s or so. Water temps warmed to cold but tolerable range. Big improvement from a couple weeks ago.

20 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

lol JFK may reach 100 before Central Park does.

No one cares about Central Park anymore anyway, it doesn't reflect NYC weather in any way.  I dont know why the media ever uses them anymore, they should just use LGA which is far more reflective of urban NYC.

I wish the NWS would send a bulletin to the media to tell them to stop using Central Park numbers.  All we get now is Lee Goldberg telling us that the wind and temp reports from Central Park are not representative of the area- but he keeps on quoting them and the highs and lows there.

Either that or move the Central Park equipment out into the Sheep Meadow (or set up duplicate equipment there and just use their numbers and only keep the original equipment for historical purposes) or some other open area lol.  No one really cares about weather continuity from the 1800s anymore anyway, we all know the climate was far different back then.

 

 

If it's any consolation most people get their weather from weather apps on their phone. Most apps just point to the closest official obs station, not holding central park in any special regard. For a large portion of NYC you'll get LGA readings and statistics.

Muggy morning..79 dew 70

Did Hudson valley bike ride, went though a couple t storms somewhere on the backroads of Dutchess county. Pouring rain and hail pelting you in the open with lightning all around you. Quite an experience. Took everything to not get blown off

Maybe not..rain with some blinding lightening, thunder, car alarms going off all over.

High was 94, now cloudy and 90 with lot of thunder. Looks like the heart of that storm is aimed more toward Harlem and south..

13 minutes ago, bluewave said:

These 75 degree dewpoint days usually deliver convection around the area. First cell firing near Valley Stream.

 

 

LI super humid still. Over here, LGA dew is down to 59 though.  Unoffical readings around lows 60s in general

25 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Same here. Scorcher today. Plants wilting 

Yeah I noticed that too.  Doesnt help there is zero shade here from mid morn to about sunset.

Dew point is dropping steadily though cutting back on that heat index.

89/69,  HI 94 here

LGA is 90. 4th straight day 90+

 Park is 89

Really feeling like summer now..Hazy sunshine 82/71

LGA is 92. Establishing a heat wave there. That's my closest official station so I'm claiming heat wave here

90 here. Makes an unofficial heat wave 91, 92, 90..

12 minutes ago, bluewave said:

The air mass originated over the Sahara desert. But it was locally enhanced by a downslope flow.

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikarantane/status/1144192987003523072

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikarantane/status/1144592574449115137

 

Ive heard the Saharan air riding the trade winds is also a factor in the record heat in Miami.

16 minutes ago, bluewave said:

The most impressive part of this late June heatwave was to our south. Miami tied their June highest temperature of 98 degrees. 

Time Series Summary for MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AP, FL - Month of Jun
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

Rank	Year	Highest Max Temperature	Missing Count
1	2019	98	4
-	2009	98	0
-	1985	98	0
-	1944	98	0

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnMoralesNBC6/status/1144016117746327554?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1144016117746327554&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fweather%2F2019%2F06%2F26%2Ftemperature-records-are-melting-away-miami%2F

Unprecedented. That's how I can best describe the #heatwave in #Miami. Four records in 4 days (asterisks). Ten heat records this month. And setting the new record for highest number of days of 95°+ in the first half of a calendar year (8). The old record was 6. #climate

 

I was reading about this. Impressive. Doesnt stray from 88-92 much down there all summer. Of course with stifling humidity.

CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES   REMARKS
Central Park   FAIR      87  54  32 VRB5      30.14R
Bronx Lehman C   N/A     90  55  31 NW8         N/A
LaGuardia Arpt FAIR      87  56  34 NW13      30.09S
Queens College   N/A     88  55  33 NW10        N/A
Kennedy Intl   FAIR      90  61  37 W10       30.10F HX  90
Breezy Point   NOT AVBL
Brooklyn Coll    N/A     90  52  27 W12         N/A
Staten Island    N/A     90  54  29 NW9         N/A
Newark/Liberty FAIR      90  54  29 W10G20    30.10S
Teterboro      FAIR      89  56  32 W9G17     30.10R

LGA and Central Park both drop a degree to 87.

However LGA has a high of 90 already in between observations. The Park 89.

JFK got there 90 too. Wall St heliport 91. Most of NYS Mesonet sites at the CUNY schools are 90. I keep rising at 92. As of now, every corner of the city has touched 90 at some point, except that spot deep in the middle of central park.

13 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Excellent account.

 

BTW we hit 90 here, I dont know why JFK lagged behind.  There was a NW wind and temps definitely hit 90 on the south shore.

Looking at obs, JFK winds went SW around noon and S by mid afternoon.

LGA got to 90.

1 hour ago, Stormlover74 said:

Maybe tomorrow or Friday but certainly no guarantee

Todays warmth and sunshine may set the stage for one of the next 2 days. Gotta dry out that area some to have a shot, absent of more intense mid 90s type of day.  That or get to 90 before the mid/late afternoon shade sets in there.

57 minutes ago, Gravity Wave said:

86 at the Park, maybe NYC's first 90 of the year on the way? 

Pretty unlikely. The Park actually dropped a degree since then to 85, while everywhere else continued to climb. The Park fell to the same temp as JFK despite the SW wind there.

LGA 88

Newark 89

JFK 85.

Temp by me just hit 90.

Partly sunny with a little shower that popped up over me. 82 dew 73

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

Heavy thunderstorms moving through. Wet pattern continues with NYC only able to go 3 days without rain.

 

Quite the soaking this morn, lot of thunder and lightning too. Got drenched walking this am.