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When the temperature was 106°F in 1926 or 104°F in 2011 has Central Park what was the temperature in the interior of Manhattan (time square , brodway , midtown etc ...) with "The big urban heat effect" buildings , cars ... ?
Maybe the temperature would have been able to exceeded 110°F in the urban heat effect of Manhattan ?
Central Park is a woody zone and cool temperature but midtown is more hot with the "urban heat effect"
It is too bad have not put a weather station in midtown or the urban heat effect must be extreme !
A poorly ventilated station surrounded by asphalt might reach very high temperatures, though it's accuracy is probably low. There's probably a PWS station in Midtown on weatherunderground.
A poorly ventilated station surrounded by asphalt might reach very high temperatures, though it's accuracy is probably low. There's probably a PWS station in Midtown on weatherunderground.
Not a poorly ventilated asphalt station a good station in midtown but weather undeground have not stations in midtown
This is something that has always intrigued me, although 107°F is officially the highest temperature on record in NYC, there isn't any doubt in my mind that elsewhere in NYC has seen higher. I'd bet money that Midtown has surpassed 110°F on multiple occasions. Yankee Stadium hit 110°F during a heat wave in 2010, and Midtown is much more urban than the area surrounding Yankee Stadium. Newark hit 108°F in 2011, it's very possible that Midtown approached, matched, or surpassed that.
I don't feel Central Park is an accurate representation of modern day NYC, but that's a different topic.
The weather station is placed in Central Park for a reason. In built up areas there is too much human activity that would skew the recording. Cars, air conditioners, ventilation vents, heat lamps, steam coming out of the sewers, and people themselves if it's crowded enough would all affect the reading too much. Further, each block would record a different temperature depending the presence of various factors I mentioned, the building layout, etc. Readings wouldn't even be consistent across time since they would probably show warmer temperatures on busy/crowded days when the streets are packed with vehicles/people and business run their AC/heaters on full power. It would be mess. Placing a weather station in a park minimized the effects of human activity and various unpredictable factors.
The weather station is placed in Central Park for a reason. In built up areas there is too much human activity that would skew the recording. Cars, air conditioners, ventilation vents, heat lamps, steam coming out of the sewers, and people themselves if it's crowded enough would all affect the reading too much. Further, each block would record a different temperature depending the presence of various factors I mentioned, the building layout, etc. Readings wouldn't even be consistent across time since they would probably show warmer temperatures on busy/crowded days when the streets are packed with vehicles/people and business run their AC/heaters on full power. It would be mess. Placing a weather station in a park minimized the effects of human activity and various unpredictable factors.
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