nycsnow Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Just started raining at citi field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SACRUS Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Today's highs EWR: 86 New Brunswick: 84 NYC: 84 LGA: 84 JFK: 84 TEb: 82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 One of the best and coolest August's in the last 40 years as the overall cooling continues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermeh Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 No real heat on the horizon. GFS also joined the euro with no real heat in the medium to long range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaser25973 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Isn't it supposed to be close to 90 today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Looks like August going out like a dog has gone up in flames. I agree with William this month has been awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weathergun Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Isn't it supposed to be close to 90 today? Look doubtful around NYC. We're not clearing out fast enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 This boring stretch of weather should come to an end soon as the tropics begin to quickly heat up. The 00z GFS and to a lesser extent the 06z GFS are hinting at number of east coast threats in the next 10-16 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Actually nice try allsnow but it is going out like a dog. Seven days of above normal highs and lows. Warm and humid 8/25-31. Thats dog days to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Actually nice try allsnow but it is going out like a dog. Seven days of above normal highs and lows. Warm and humid 8/25-31. Thats dog days to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Actually nice try allsnow but it is going out like a dog. Seven days of above normal highs and lows. Warm and humid 8/25-31. Thats dog days to me I think oppressive humidity for dog days, not having my windows open every night. It has been very comfortable the last few nights. This has not been a month for heat lovers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 This boring stretch of weather should come to an end soon as the tropics begin to quickly heat up. The 00z GFS and to a lesser extent the 06z GFS are hinting at number of east coast threats in the next 10-16 days. After the last two years we could use a bit of boredom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 After the last two years we could use a bit of boredom. Agree. I could do without a tree destroyer this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 It wad quite humid last night and all day yesterday. Todau as well as will the rest of the week. It does need to be 90s to be summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 This week is summery in the sense that we're seeing near normal values for August, but we're barely putting up more than +1 to +3 daily departures. Mins are a bit elevated but day time highs are essentially normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Had a mean temp of 70.8F for June, exactly the same for August so far, 70.8F, and 78.0F For July. So basically 2 fairly comfortable months and 1 torch month of the summer. My mean highs for June and August are 80.5 and 80.0 respectively. Overnight minima are both 62.4-62.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 And im not talking about you having your windows open last week. Its about the last week of august going out warm and humid. I sure needed my air last night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaser25973 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Kind of a stupid question, but how correct are our "normals?" What is the presumption behind them and why do we always fail to either reach them or succeed at breaching them? We almost never hit the "normal" temperature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Agree. I could do without a tree destroyer this year While I don't wish anyone death and or destruction, I'll be the first person to sign up for another cane this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Kind of a stupid question, but how correct are our "normals?" What is the presumption behind them and why do we always fail to either reach them or succeed at breaching them? We almost never hit the "normal" temperature. Normals are an average of the variations in temperatures, so the word "normal" should not imply that we need to attain that value every day. It simply means that the mean of our warm, hot, cool, cold periods ends up being that value. Most of the time are temperatures are within 15 degrees of "normal" but sometimes we can see variations of 20-30+ degrees from that number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 While I don't wish anyone death and or destruction, I'll be the first person to sign up for another cane this year. I'm not hoping for anything major but I certainly wouldn't mind a gusty tropical storm with heavy rains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 I'm not hoping for anything major but I certainly wouldn't mind a gusty tropical storm with heavy rains. Even the weakest TC hitting the area would likely bring flooding to many inland areas so if we're going to be dealing with that we might as well go for the gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Had 0.30" rain here overnight. It's been a dry August with total for month now up to 1.48" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEXtreme Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Actually nice try allsnow but it is going out like a dog. Seven days of above normal highs and lows. Warm and humid 8/25-31. Thats dog days to meHuh?Mid 80's is now dog days to you??? That's pathetic ... Lol...so how are those heat waves and 90s doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Kind of a stupid question, but how correct are our "normals?" What is the presumption behind them and why do we always fail to either reach them or succeed at breaching them? We almost never hit the "normal" temperature. Normals are an average of the variations in temperatures, so the word "normal" should not imply that we need to attain that value every day. It simply means that the mean of our warm, hot, cool, cold periods ends up being that value. Most of the time are temperatures are within 15 degrees of "normal" but sometimes we can see variations of 20-30+ degrees from that number.Normals are calculated based on a rolling 30 year calendar. Right now the "normal" base is 1981-1990, 1991-2000 and 2001-2010. My strongly held opinion is we should be using 50 or 60 year base periods, if not longer, since we now have good data for lengthy periods at most stations and we should try to at least span two (2) "warm" or "cold" phases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 While I don't wish anyone death and or destruction, I'll be the first person to sign up for another cane this year. Yup. We certainly got off easy down here from the last one we had. I can't imagine how anyone could want something like we had with Sandy. It's one thing to want a blizzard that makes the scenery outside white and generally snarls things up for a couple of days, but I will never root on the kind of death and devastation this area had from that storm. Ever. It literally was beyond words to describe and my town is still recovering from it. Even now many homes are being demolished from irreparable flood damage (luckily my home was just below the damage designation required for a full demolition/rebuild, but we lost just about all of our possessions anyway), and my city of nearly 40,000 has no hospital because of it. A hurricane has far different impacts way inland where you are vs. here on the shore which was inundated by up to 10 foot surges in addition to the high tide/full moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Yup. We certainly got off easy down here from the last one we had. I can't imagine how anyone could want something like we had with Sandy. It's one thing to want a blizzard that makes the scenery outside white and generally snarls things up for a couple of days, but I will never root on the kind of death and devastation this area had from that storm. Ever. It literally was beyond words to describe and my town is still recovering from it. Even now many homes are being demolished from irreparable flood damage (luckily my home was just below the damage designation required for a full demolition/rebuild, but we lost just about all of our possessions anyway), and my city of nearly 40,000 has no hospital because of it. A hurricane has far different impacts way inland where you are vs. here on the shore which was inundated by up to 10 foot surges in addition to the high tide/full moon. I'm a severe weather enthusiast, it doesn't mean I'm "rooting" for anything. I was down in Seaside immediatly during the aftermath helping with the search and rescue. I saw the destruction first hand, yet I couldn't help but stand in awe at the shocking power of mother nature. It's a very humbling experience and I don't wish destruction on any individual, but I'm a severe weather enthusiast just like many others on this board and the more powerful and more severe the better. This forum is full of posters wishing for a US landfalling hurricane this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 27, 2013 Author Share Posted August 27, 2013 Yup. We certainly got off easy down here from the last one we had. I can't imagine how anyone could want something like we had with Sandy. It's one thing to want a blizzard that makes the scenery outside white and generally snarls things up for a couple of days, but I will never root on the kind of death and devastation this area had from that storm. Ever. It literally was beyond words to describe and my town is still recovering from it. Even now many homes are being demolished from irreparable flood damage (luckily my home was just below the damage designation required for a full demolition/rebuild, but we lost just about all of our possessions anyway), and my city of nearly 40,000 has no hospital because of it. A hurricane has far different impacts way inland where you are vs. here on the shore which was inundated by up to 10 foot surges in addition to the high tide/full moon. New videos keep getting posted on Youtube. Check out the guy driving the van through the surge down on Grand. I had a great walk on the new open section of the boardwalk a week ago and it is really looking beautiful. But you can see how many parts of town are still struggling to recover. It was nice to see McDonalds open again. People are not happy about the hospital remaining closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 New videos keep getting posted on Youtube. Check out the guy driving the van through the surge down on Grand. I had a great walk on the new open section of the boardwalk a week ago and it is really looking beautiful. But you can see how many parts of town are still struggling to recover. It was nice to see McDonalds open again. People are not happy about the hospital remaining closed. It continues to amaze me that no one from Long Beach died, given how fast the surge came in over much of town and how many stayed. A lot of people underestimated it, as most don't understand a "Perfect Storm" that is part-Nor'easter. Sandy was a storm I had a really bad feeling about from the days it was emerging from Cuba and the models were converging on a worst-case track for here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 27, 2013 Author Share Posted August 27, 2013 It continues to amaze me that no one from Long Beach died, given how fast the surge came in over much of town and how many stayed. A lot of people underestimated it, as most don't understand a "Perfect Storm" that is part-Nor'easter. Sandy was a storm I had a really bad feeling about from the days it was emerging from Cuba and the models were converging on a worst-case track for here. I got the word out to my friends to get their cars out of Long Beach ahead of the storm and they were able to save their cars. A number of people that I spoke to were able to put their cars up on the hill behind the bus depot in Lido and they just walked back to get their cars a few days later which were fine. The main reason that that there were no fatalities was that people were able to get to neighbors houses that had second floors which were above the surge. One of my friends near the hospital told me that the surge came up to the roof of his truck. A woman had to put her child on her shoulders to escape the rising waters in the hospital area to a neighbors house with a second floor. I spoke to a cop that was on duty that night and he told me that the tide came up to the top step of the police station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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