LibertyBell

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!

still no idea why the instruments were relocated.....

The most memorable event that year was the Feb 1983 blizzard (2 feet of snow here) although we did have our latest snow event in April, around 2" on the 20th! That made it back to back Aprils with measurable snows, as we had the April blizzard the year prior.

Central Park temps are about as much a joke as a sighting of big foot. JFK hit 90!

Remember I queried about 1993 earlier this Spring as a case where there was extreme rainfall in the Mississippi Valley and extreme heat in the east. Looks like that kind of sustained extreme heat may come to fruition? That was the last time that Central Park experienced three days in a row of 100+ and Newark had five days in a row of 100+!

the GFS has a warmth bias it's not UHI- UHI affects overnight lows much more than it does high temps. Notice how Central Park's lows are usually 2-3 degrees warmer than JFK's, yet JFK often ends up being warmer for day time highs when there is no sea breeze.

Yep this happens a lot, our severe weather max seems to occur in the fall.

But wasn't 1980 one of our hottest summers?

Yes this should be the new way we measure heat- not number of 90 degree days. The higher dew points are far more reflective of our new climate than high temperatures would be.