uncle W

70 degree minimums in NYC are on the rise...the 1960's averaged 24 such days while the 2010's averaged 47...a wopping 10 more than the second placed 1980's...2020.had 58 making the long term average a little higher... year total min 70+ consecutive 70+ 1930..........26............8 1931..........34............7 1932..........25............6 1933..........33............6 1934..........26............4 1935..........29..........11 1936..........20............4 1937..........28............6 1938..........34..........12 1939..........44..........13.......29.9.........7.7 1940..........24............8 1941..........27............6 1942..........20............4 1943..........30............4 1944..........41..........14 1945..........29............4 1946..........11............3 1947..........30............5 1948..........29............6 1949..........43..........10......32.4........6.4 1950..........13............5 1951..........23............7 1952..........38..........12 1953..........34..........10 1954..........18............5 1955..........45..........13 1956..........20............5 1957..........31............5 1958..........26............4 1959..........46..........10......29.4.......7.3 1960..........20............5 1961..........42............9 1962............8............2 1963..........14............5 1964..........19............4 1965..........17............4 1966..........40..........11 1967..........17............5 1968..........29............6 1969..........33............6......23.9.......5.7 1970..........37..........10 1971..........45............9 1972..........30..........15 1973..........37..........11 1974..........26............3 1975..........23..........12 1976..........24............4 1977..........37............9 1978..........31..........13 1979..........42..........17......33.2......10.3 1980..........52..........22 1981..........39............8 1982..........30..........12 1983..........45..........13 1984..........40..........16 1985..........34............6 1986..........31............4 1987..........32............7 1988..........42..........21 1989..........28............5......37.3.....11.4 1990..........32............8 1991..........31............7 1992..........14............4 1993..........35..........10 1994..........35............9 1995..........39..........18 1996..........22............5 1997..........27............8 1998..........39..........11 1999..........45..........13......31.9.......9.3 2000..........22............4 2001..........30............9 2002..........43............9 2003..........33..........15 2004..........28............6 2005..........60..........14 2006..........41..........15 2007..........35............8 2008..........35............8 2009..........18............5.....34.5.......9.3 2010..........54..........22 2011..........40............9 2012..........47..........10 2013..........51..........19 2014...……33...……..9 2015..........56............9 2016..........51..........16 2017..........44............7..... 2018..........55..........18 2019...…...43...……...7.....47.4.....12.6 2020.........58..........20.... 1872...…...41...……16 1876..........46..........14 1906..........61..........17 1908..........54..........16

its only a starting point...there is always an analog that is a good fit but finding it before the fact is the hard part...

Central Park is 130ft above sea level...LGA is about 10ft above sea level...Central park usually gets wind thats slightly up slope...LGA is on the down slope if any...a sw wind has to travel over a built up Brooklyn and Queens and has little greenery near the probes and gets some ocasional Jet fumes...a park is going to be cooler in the heat than a street corner in Manhattan or Queens...

a rock dove has long hair...nyuk nyuk nyuk...

the winter is just a memory...as the seasons come and go it gets faster when you get older...October will be here almost as fast as you can say it...

91/59 today...

1959-1965 has five of the 16 years posted...all came in within seven years...that was the height of the drought that lasted until Sept. 1966...

it was 88 on this date 5/18 in 1977... record low is 41 set in 1973...it was 42 in 1976 and 1882...43 in 2002 and 1983... 5/19 records... 99 in 1962... 89 in 1964... 89 in 1996... 38 in 1976... 41 in 2002... 42 in 1882... 43 in 2009...

hows this for a reversal... May 23th 1925 the temperature hit 91 in the afternoon...by midnight it was 59 and that was the next days high...the 25th had a high of 53 and a low of 41...

May warm spells with at least three consecutive days 85 or higher in NYC... dates.................days 90+ max 5/25-27/1880.....3.......3.....96 5/09-11/1896.....3.......3.....91 5/05-09/1930.....5.......2.....91 5/28-30/1931.....3.......3.....93 5/27-29/1935.....3.......0.....89 5/28-31/1939.....4.......3.....96 5/27-30/1959.....4.......1.....94 5/20-22/1959.....3.......2.....91 5/18-21/1962.....4.......2.....99 5/29-31/1969.....3.......2.....97 5/09-13/1970.....5.......2.....93 5/22-24/1980.....3.......1.....90 5/24-27/1981.....4.......0.....87 5/28-31/1986.....4.......2.....94 5/28-31/1987.....4.......3.....97 5/29-31/1988.....3.......1.....91 5/27-31/1991.....5.......3.....91 5/21-23/1992.....3.......2.....93 5/19-21/1996.....3.......2.....96 5/29-31/1999.....3.......0.....89 5/05-09/2000.....5.......3.....93 5/01-04/2001.....4.......3.....92 5/11-13/2004.....3.......0.....86 5/25-31/2015.....7.......0.....88 5/25-29/2016.....5.......2.....92 5/17-19/2017.....3.......3.....91

it was 99 on May 19th 1962...I had baseball practice that day and remember it well...

1962 and 1996 had the hottest temperature of the year on May 19th-20th...May 1964 and 1965 had early heat...I remember both years had back to back 90 degree days the second half of the month...both years hit 94...

1969 had a very hot ending to May...I played in a softball game in central park on the day it hit 97 ...1986 and 1987 ended May in the mid 90's... some hot endings to May... 5/25-27/1880....95 95 96 5/30-6/3 1895....90 96 96 96 95 5/26-28/ 1914....94 95 87 5/28-31/ 1939....90 90 89 96 5/29-31/ 1969....97 90 87 5/30-6/1 1986....94 93 90 5/29-6/1 1987....96 97 94 93

I'll take a hot Summer like 1955, 1966, 1977, 1993, 2002 and 2010 as long as the following winter was like those years...

It was colder during the ice age. It was warmer after snowball earth...

so far May 8th has the coldest max temp for the month with a max of 55...the average since 1930 is 53.8...2019 and 2020 had one day with a max of 48...1967 and 1977 have the coldest max with 44...1941, 1969 and 1991 have the highest number with 63 as the coldest max for the month...Dates with the most coolest days of the month are... May 2nd...8 years... May 19th..7 years... May 8th....7 years... May 7th....7 years... May 11th..6 years... May 9th....6 years... May 1st.....6 years... May 13th...5 years... May 3rd.....5 years... May 25th...4 years... May's coldest maximum temperature since 1930... May's coldest max day... 1930.....54.....5/19... 1931.....50.....5/13 1932.....56.....5/08... 1933.....53.....5/06... 1934.....56.....5/25 1935.....51.....5/04 1936.....52.....5/28 1937.....56.....5/08 1938.....55.....5/15 1939.....52.....5/13......53.5 1940.....60.....5/26 1941.....63.....5/03 1942.....51.....5/09 1943.....53.....5/01 1944.....58.....5/24 1945.....50.....5/01 1946.....51.....5/01 1947.....48.....5/02 1948.....51.....5/07 1949.....59.....5/11...54.4 1950.....48.....5/19 1951.....55.....5/11 1952.....54.....5/20 1953.....48.....5/02 1954.....52.....5/10 1955.....56.....5/09 1956.....53.....5/07 1957.....51.....5/20 1958.....46.....5/06 1959.....57.....5/15.....52.0 1960.....52.....5/01 1961.....47.....5/27 1962.....45.....5/02 1963.....52.....5/11 1964.....59.....5/02 1965.....52.....5/07 1966.....52.....5/09 1967.....44.....5/07 1968.....56.....5/28 1969.....63.....5/07.....52.2 1970.....55.....5/06 1971.....55.....5/09 1972.....49.....5/09 1973.....56.....5/21 1974.....52.....5/03 1975.....55.....5/01 1976.....52.....5/19 1977.....44.....5/09 1978.....45.....5/05 1979.....61.....5/19.....52.4 1980.....56.....5/08 1981.....62.....5/02 1982.....55.....5/24 1983.....57.....5/27 1984.....55.....5/16 1985.....53.....5/03 1986.....55.....5/03 1987.....48.....5/04 1988.....56.....5/02 1989.....53.....5/10.....55.0 1990.....51.....5/21 1991.....63.....5/03 1992.....54.....5/08 1993.....56.....5/19 1994.....54.....5/19 1995.....52.....5/02 1996.....54.....6/16 1997.....56.....5/07 1998.....57.....5/11 1999.....58.....5/07.....55.5 2000.....51.....5/20 2001.....57.....5/25 2002.....53.....5/13 2003.....56.....5/26 2004.....61.....5/08 2005.....53.....5/25 2006.....61.....5/19 2007.....54.....5/18 2008.....54.....5/12 2009.....54.....5/05.....55.4 2010.....48.....5/12 2011.....58.....5/22 2012.....53.....5/02 2013.....54.....5/25 2014.....59.....5/08 2015.....62.....5/21 2016.....51.....5/01 2017.....53.....5/13 2018.....54.....5/13 2019.....48.....5/13.....54.0 2020.....48.....5/09 2021.....51.....5/29.....49.5 ave.......53.8

Saw a few deer the other night a few blocks from my house...A buck and a little doe as curly would say...

it happens almost every year...a cold shot in May...last year was as extreme as it gets in May...May days with a max in the 40's can make you shiver...1978 had three such days... 1962 also...both years ended up with 90's for highs before the month ended...

you have to keep burning fossil fuels for that...or maybe a meteor strike will do the trick...

you can find it all here... xmACIS2 (rcc-acis.org)

40 in 1992...

they'll be trapped indoors because its to hot to go outside...i

NYC got into the low 30's last May...A standard recprd low with the lowest 34 degree temp for so late in the season...it was the first time since 1978 NYC got below 40 in May...years since 1960 that had temps below 40 in May...it happened seven times in 16 years...then it took 42 years for it to happen again... 1963...38... 1966...36... 1967...39... 1970...38... 1976...38... 1977...36... 1978...38... 2020...34...

another cold May day almost the same date as last years May record cold and snow...sometimes weather repeats it self a year later or is the exact opposite...