Record Breaking Cold January 3-4 & 7-8 Discussion & Observations

[Chaser25973]

I'm worried that the cold air will interact with future nor'easters. Warm water off our coast has always helped our storms explode alla Feb 2006.

[Hailstorm]

Rate of temp increase is starting to slow. Wondering if this makes it more likely the city doesn't reach 10 today. City is sitting at 7 with just 3 more hours of temp rises.

[pazzo83]

Rate of temp increase is starting to slow. Wondering if this makes it more likely the city doesn't reach 10 today. City is sitting at 7 with just 3 more hours of temp rises.

 

Unfortunately our high was set at midnight.

[SnoSki14]

As cold as it's been, I'll still gladly take this over extreme heat and humidity any day. At least you can bundle up and stay warm in this weather instead of sweating, huffing and puffing, and feeling like about to pass out in 100-105+ degree heat. There's not too much that can be done in the heat if you have to be outdoors to stay cool (not counting for pool or beach).

[IntenseBlizzard2014]

Unfortunately our high was set at midnight.

Lowest Maximum?

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

As cold as it is today we were still an incredible 19 degrees warmer then the all time record low! Any updates on the sound effect?

[Stormlover74]

Lowest Maximum?

It was missed by a couple degrees I believe. As cold as it is right now..coldest midday temps in 20 years..there's really no way to document it for climatological purposes.

[tmagan]

It is hard comparing wind chills since the formula was changed in 2001.

 

I 'believe' that at noon on January 20, 1994, Central Park was at zero degrees.

 

As cold as this air mass has been, the real story is how infrequent and ephemeral these brutally cold air masses have become in the last two decades.

[Stormlover74]

It is hard comparing wind chills since the formula was changed in 2001.

I 'believe' that at noon on January 20, 1994, Central Park was at zero degrees.

As cold as this air mass has become, the real story is how infrequent and ephemeral these brutally cold air masses have become in the last two decades.

Yeah we used to have wind chill advisories all the time. Didn't take much. 20 degrees with a 25 mph wind would've been enough back then.

[FreeRain]

there have not be many record lows lately but we did set a record low max for the month of July twice in the 2000's...

 

I remember back in July 1983 for the Brooklyn Bridge bicentenial. We had mid fifties and overcast that afternoon.

[pazzo83]

It is hard comparing wind chills since the formula was changed in 2001.

 

I 'believe' that at noon on January 20, 1994, Central Park was at zero degrees.

 

As cold as this air mass has been, the real story is how infrequent and ephemeral these brutally cold air masses have become in the last two decades.

 

Bingo.

[Hailstorm]

Unfortunately our high was set at midnight.

Ugh, just realized that.

[Weathergun]

We might still have shot record daily low max at Central Park. Mesonet show max temp of 14 since midnight:

 

http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?stn=KNYC&time=GMT

 

It shows 14 at 5:51z (12:51am) though. So I'm not sure.

[Keith O]

Think the temp sensor at Andover (K12N) just crapped out.  Went from 6 at 1PM to 18 at 2PM.  I live about 5 minutes from this station and currently am sitting at 6 after a low this morning of -2.

[TWCCraig]

We might still have shot record daily low max at Central Park. Mesonet show max temp of 14 since midnight:

 

http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?stn=KNYC&time=GMT

 

It shows 14 at 5:51z (12:51am) though. So I'm not sure.

 

The meteograms also show the 6 hourly max from 12am to 6am at 14 degrees.

 

My max since midnight here at my station is 26.3, but I'm much further east.

[Weathergun]

This is from Upton. The record low max for Central Park is 19 and max for today is 19. So it look like will probably tie. EWR and JFK likely will beat theirs.:

 

IN ADDITION RECORD LOW MAX TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE SET OR TIED AT SOME CLIMATE
SITES TODAY. THE MAX TEMPS BELOW WERE ACHIEVED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SITE............RECORD LOW MAX TEMP (F).......OBSERVED MAX TEMP (F)
CENTRAL PARK 19 (1942, 1912)........................... 19
NEWARK ARPT 19 (1996)........................................16
LA GUARDIA ARPT 20 (1942).................................. 20
KENNEDY ARPT 21 (1988)...................................... 20

[MJO812]

7 over here.

[pazzo83]

10F in the park.

[bluewave]

We might still have shot record daily low max at Central Park. Mesonet show max temp of 14 since midnight:

 

http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?stn=KNYC&time=GMT

 

It shows 14 at 5:51z (12:51am) though. So I'm not sure.

 

Things would have been more interesting if the Arctic front was about 3 hours faster. 

 

.CLIMATE...

RECORD LOWS WERE SET AT ALL CLIMATE SITES THIS MORNING EXCEPT FOR

BRIDGEPORT CT.

SITE..........LOW TEMP (F)......OLD RECORD

CENTRAL PARK 4 6 (1896)

NEWARK ARPT 3 10 (1996)

LA GUARDIA ARPT 4 11 (1968)

KENNEDY ARPT 6 8 (1968)

ISLIP ARPT 7 13 (1988)

IN ADDITION RECORD LOW MAX TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE SET OR TIED AT SOME CLIMATE

SITES TODAY. THE MAX TEMPS BELOW WERE ACHIEVED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SITE............RECORD LOW MAX TEMP (F).......OBSERVED MAX TEMP (F)

CENTRAL PARK 19 (1942, 1912) .....................19

NEWARK ARPT 19 (1996) ................................16

LA GUARDIA ARPT 20 (1942).......................... .20

KENNEDY ARPT 21 (1988) ...............................20

ISLIP AND BRIDGEPORT HAD MAX TEMPS WELL INTO THE MID 20S AFTER

MIDNIGHT WHICH ARE ABOVE THEIR RECORD LOW MAXES FOR THE DAY.

 

[WE GOT HIM]

Things would have been more interesting if the Arctic front was about 3 hours faster. 

 

.CLIMATE...

RECORD LOWS WERE SET AT ALL CLIMATE SITES THIS MORNING EXCEPT FOR

BRIDGEPORT CT.

SITE..........LOW TEMP (F)......OLD RECORD

CENTRAL PARK 4 6 (1896)

NEWARK ARPT 3 10 (1996)

LA GUARDIA ARPT 4 11 (1968)

KENNEDY ARPT 6 8 (1968)

ISLIP ARPT 7 13 (1988)

IN ADDITION RECORD LOW MAX TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE SET OR TIED AT SOME CLIMATE

SITES TODAY. THE MAX TEMPS BELOW WERE ACHIEVED JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

SITE............RECORD LOW MAX TEMP (F).......OBSERVED MAX TEMP (F)

CENTRAL PARK 19 (1942, 1912) .....................19

NEWARK ARPT 19 (1996) ................................16

LA GUARDIA ARPT 20 (1942).......................... .20

KENNEDY ARPT 21 (1988) ...............................20

ISLIP AND BRIDGEPORT HAD MAX TEMPS WELL INTO THE MID 20S AFTER

MIDNIGHT WHICH ARE ABOVE THEIR RECORD LOW MAXES FOR THE DAY.

 

Yea it would have been

- 26cs almost over the city

[snywx]

-0.9f for a low this morning...

 

Currently 3.4f

[pazzo83]

Back down to 9 in the park.  Ok, I'm done.  I want my 50s now.

[tmagan]

Back down to 9 in the park.  Ok, I'm done.  I want my 50s now.

It's coming relatively soon.

[green tube]

Back down to 9 in the park.  Ok, I'm done.  I want my 50s now.

 

 

this will be the mother of all pot hole seasons....  50s coming back, then euro advertised pv return.

[uncle W]

I was at my new place before and I had no water...Frozen pipes?......But that's the landlords... good thing I didn't move in yet...today reminded me of the cold wave during late January 1963...that one had single digits into the next morning...That's possible tonight...

[pazzo83]

this will be the mother of all pot hole seasons....  50s coming back, then euro advertised pv return.

 

Haha, going to need 4wd to drive up 3rd Ave.

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

Reporter on fox just said its the coldest it's been in ny since 1896 wtf that's just horrible journalism off by a mere 19 degrees

She clarified at the end of the report for this day

[jm1220]

this will be the mother of all pot hole seasons....  50s coming back, then euro advertised pv return.

Won't be excited for any real storms until the west-based block shows up again in some way. Otherwise this is a progressive, Pacific dominated mess.

[pazzo83]

Reporter on fox just said its the coldest it's been in ny since 1896 wtf that's just horrible journalism off by a mere 19 degrees

She clarified at the end of the report for this day

 

This whole thing is out of control.  If you look at what Don posted on the main forum, we are largely seeing the coldest temps in between 5 and 20 years, depending on the location.

[Absolute Humidity]

7.9