LibertyBell

did you go a degree higher the next day? I did and reached 100

We did hit 100 here on Sunday and the HI was 118, hottest day in quite a few years!

frustrated we got stuck at 99 today, but tomorrow should be a little hotter with a west wind all day

did you reach 100? tomorrow should be 2-3 degrees hotter

I bet we reach 100 tomorrow! Was 99 on the south shore today and we'll get a nice downslope wind tomorrow

99 here on the south shore too! Going for 100 today and think we'll make it with a downslope wind! BTW MJX hit 100 yesterday I think we should start measuring total heat using the heat index, since our humidity has been on the rise, total heat content needs to factor that in. A "hot" day should be a day with a HI of 90, an extremely hot day a day with a HI of 110. Tony is there any way to find out how many days we've had with a HI that high so far?

I think we should start measuring total heat using the heat index, since our humidity has been on the rise, total heat content needs to factor that in. A "hot" day should be a day with a HI of 90, an extremely hot day a day with a HI of 110.

the south shore will hit triple digits today- we came very close yesterday

I think we can hit 100 today, no sea breeze until very late and a nice downslope wind all day

Don both JFK and LGA hit 99! I recorded 99 here on the south shore of Nassau County also. Maybe they can both hit 100 today? I'm ignoring Central Park, they are lagging far behind all the airports

they seem to have gotten worse over the years. I loved growing cucumbers and squash in the past, and (maybe it's our changing weather) it was a lot easier in the 90s than it is today

plus Agent Orange over there in DC got $1 million from Dow and he had an insecticide approved that kills bees. Another pollinator that'll bite the dust- they're bending over backwards for Dow, they also unbanned a Dow pesticide that causes brain damage in children, which they're currently being sued over.

Right and I find that our big heat summers typically see the big heat start around or just after July 4th! It's all a bit delayed this summer.

Glad we hit 90, 89 degree days are really annoying, if it's going to be hot it might as well hit 90

current society would disintegrate without its technology, it's so dependent on it! at least if the power outage had happened at night we would finally be able to see stars (the real ones!) lessen that light pollution! I think the 1977 black out gave people the wrong idea that less light means more crime.... there wasn't a significant increase in crime during the August 2004 major black out nor was there such last night either.... not to mention that light pollution causes health problems including a higher risk of cancer (breast and prostate) because of melatonin repression.

what kind of "pests" are they trying to kill? If we kill off the pollinators, the pest that will eventually go extinct is humanity ;-) and the rest of the planet will celebrate our demise!

My 3.8 year old self had faint memories of it being really dark and being really scared lol. I have brighter memories of what the Yankees did then and the following year and the winter that followed that summer......

Do you buy this idea of the most extreme heat coming after the tropical rains? Typically, after we get a heavy rain, we have a tough time getting that hot. Also, I hear analogs like 1993 being thrown around, that was an amazingly prolonged summer- do you think we could have something of that magnitude? The flooding rains in the Mississippi Valley also happened that year.

73,000 customers without power so that would be close to 300K people!

I even saw fireflies the other night when it was raining hard- I've never seen that before!

We also had a big black out in August, I think it was 2003?

or 1993, 1999 or 2010 Don may have to revise his prediction of no 100 degrees until August ;-)

With our warming climate just hope you dont see the super nests that have become commonplace in Alabama- those super nests are the size of SUVs and can hold up to 15,000 wasps!

1993 was amazing, we had 39 days of 90+ (tied 1991) and three straight days of 100 and above! The records for that summer were easily broken in 2010 though (despite what the Central Park badly sited equipment might say.) btw there was a half Manhattanhenge yesterday!

and yet Bill Corbell of News 12 keeps yapping about how the north shore areas are the only ones that have a chance of reaching 90..... do these guys not understand local climatology and what a NW/WNW wind does? It's like the people who say "more snow N and W" all the time!