Summer Heat Returns

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Sort of. After eleven days of at or below normal temperatures, a huge high pressure system that covers the entire country east of the Rockies and north of Florida, will bring sunny, warm weather back to New York today. The high on this increasingly humid day should be in the upper 80s if not 90 degrees. Hailing the possible return of the 90 degree mark we made a graph!

So far 2008 has had eleven days in which the mercury has climbed to at least 90. The 1971-2008 average is 17 days. In 2004 there was only one 90 degree day, while 1993 reached that mark 39 times. Ninety degrees has happened most often, 16 times, on July 18th. On average, half the city's 90 degree days occur before July 19th, and by today we've typically had 87 percent of the 90 degree days that we can expect in the summer. Climatically speaking, summer only has a couple more hot days to give this year.

An approaching cold front means tomorrow afternoon may feature a few showers (geez that new NY1 weather page is sad looking). Expect a high in the mid 80s. Tomorrow's rain, if any, will be the weather event of the week. Wednesday will be sunny and only in the upper 70s. Thursday through the weekend is currently looking slightly warmer and sunny. Elsewhere, it looks like Tropical Storm Fay will roll through the Florida Keys late tonight and possibly strengthen into a minimal hurricane as it scrapes the Florida Gulf Coast tomorrow.

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1993 = 39 times
2008 = 11 times

I guess Al Gore and the other "chicken littles" will eat a little humble pie with this announcement.

In terms of actual temperatures this hasn't been a really hot summer at all. It's been VERY wet and humid most of the time. Almost everyday there is always a chance of thunderstorms this summer.

Oh yeah Snoopy, because clearly one example of there being less 90 degree days in 2008 than in 1993 shows that in no way does global warming exist.

Melting glaciers and nearly ice free Arctic Ocean, eat your hearts out!

I was really liking the nice weather.

I just had a seizure looking at the background of that chart.

CATCHUP

You've had your summertime in the sun,
Turned blazing, crimson red,
Applied the recommended wet
Washcloth and taken to bed.

You've listened to Beethoven and Bach
And John Zorn on the lawn
And gotten bitten by hungry bugs
And look like a savaged fawn.

You've driven winding country roads
That always leave you a mess
And having failed to learn a thing
Still have no G.P.S.

But now you're home, it's catchup day,
A bloody collection of thrills!
A hundred messages and a pile
Of magazines and bills.

This is not the only summer to be this cool and wet (it's almost bee a s much cooler South Florida summer with lots of showers and very humid).

The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years, Global warming exists but it is NOT man made! Al gore is a fraud and so is the Rothschild funded CO2 emissions tax (Carbon Tax and Carbon Credits). MAN-made Global Warming is a scam to tax the population and control their lives.

These kind of summers have been happening since '06 or so.

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