[Cambium]

Originally Posted by Geomaster2004

I just moved to the CT/NYC area from up in the UK...and man they are not kidding when the say the East Coast is like he tropics in summer!

It's only 7:00 am and already it's 77 F at my house in New Haven, I can remember Leeds would only get to maybe 80 F on a handful of days each summer. Today might be the first time I ever experienced 90 F temps and tropical humidity. They said the heat and humidity combo will make it fell like 100 F. It's s kind of exciting in a way, I feel like I'm in New Orleans lol.

I used this post in the Weather Forum under The Dewpoint Thread . Check out the Dewpoints across the country. Not just CT this morning that's feeling tropical like this but yeah, it's pretty typical. You're lucky you weren't here in previous years when this happens in May. We've gotten lucky so far this only happening a couple times but yeah...it's typical around here.

It will change tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Cambium

VERY warm morning out there. Lows are pretty much what the normal max temps are. Here's the 7am temps. NYC area didn't go below 80°F!!

Wider View of entire East

One of those weather forums (not on City-Data but I don't have the link immedately on me as I'm not home and googling it is not getting for me) noted how before 1985 or so 80+ degree lows in NYC occurred about once a decade but since they occur on average every other year (this may also be almost the earliest in the year an 80+ degree low occurred and no one was predicting it either). This is one reason why I think "global warming" does exist but is really about the nighttime lows and not much else (with urban heat island enhancing that too but I can't imagine NYC changed that much in build up since the 1980s.....maybe if we're comparing to 1900 or something). But I also think science left to their own devices can eventually find a way to fix this that doesn't make us go back to cavemen ways much like how the ozone/CFC issue eventually played out.

Funny thing is it was unusually cold in my bedroom where I had the air on and the rest of the house wasn't that hot....when I first saw the upper 70s and low 80s temps on my computer I honestly thought it was a typo or one of those mornings where NWS didn't update from hours earlier.....

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UPDATE: NWS shows that it briefly went to 79 in Central Park, so it's not an "80+ degree low".....though it wouldn't be anyway if it goes under 80 before midnight (i.e. after dark) anyway.

Also, since temperature has not budged much (it's still just 81 in Central Park despite the 79 degree low) and (at least where I'm working in Stamford) it's quite windy out, NWS is saying it may not make it to 90 after all (but it will be close). That would be interesting because if it doesn't at CPK or BDR I think we have a good chance of no 90s through all of June, which would be extremely rare, especially at CPK (I know they never had a year in their 140+ year record without a 90 degree reading and the record for the first one is sometime in late July back in the 1800s, their high was 89 yesterday so it will be close).

[jp03]

Originally Posted by AntonioR

I probably feel an overdose of pain during the winters. You know, I feel my own pain and then on top of that the extra pain that most of you guys don't feel.

I don't know why people are talking about the horrible winter at this time of the year. Lets enjoy the summer without constant reminders that in a few months it will go downhill again.

Last winter was long..even i was sick of it by late March...if every year was like that it would be adifferent story.

[Cambium]

Summer weather today.

That's all. No further comment. lol

Oh wait...

[jp03]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Summer weather today.

That's all. No further comment. lol

Oh wait...

You are a good sport about it at least..unlike some of our warm weather friends

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BDR and Central Park both topped out at 89 and are at 87 and 86 respectively now (though CPK actually went down then back up so 90 not still out of the question today), JFK and Newark (EWR) topped 90. BDL "only" got to 84.

I don't have the info for BDR, but the last time Central Park got to July 1 without a 90 degree reading (very possible this year if you believe the long range forecast) was in 1985! (Though 2009 gets an asterisk for something almost more incredible, if it weren't for 2 freakish 90+ days in April it would've been the first time in those 140+ years it didn't hit 90 until August!). 2009 is the last time no 90+ in June, it's occurred 28 times in the long Central Park record but only 4 other times since (and including) 1985 and 2009 was the first one since 1996.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by jp03

You are a good sport about it at least..unlike some of our warm weather friends

The only things keeping me sane are the garden and what we been saying.. couple months we're downhill from there. Lol

Sitting in backyard right now with dog in the shade. Not even the shade is enjoyable. How do people like this humidity??

Can someone post the actual highs for today for some stations?

NYC failed to hit 90 this year still. Past the average date. I'll check BDR later

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Originally Posted by Cambium

Can someone post the actual highs for today for some stations?

NYC failed to hit 90 this year still. Past the average date. I'll check BDR later

You posted just one minute after me, I posted some highs and (at least for NYC) some "fail to hit 90" info.....LOL!

[jp03]

Originally Posted by Cambium

The only things keeping me sane are the garden and what we been saying.. couple months we're downhill from there. Lol

Sitting in backyard right now with dog in the shade. Not even the shade is enjoyable. How do people like this humidity??

Can someone post the actual highs for today for some stations?

NYC failed to hit 90 this year still. Past the average date. I'll check BDR later

If not in the sun, I found today quite comfortable. I am fully convinced now my 5 years in Charlotte hardened me. It doesn't even feel like summer here yet. If you lived in the south you would just die. The sun angle alone just makes it worse.

Frankly, I hope its gets hot for a couple months... its summer..