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Pinhole photograph from gmpicket on Flickr
After a cool August, September is running more than three degrees warmer than normal. That flip has largely been due to the incursion of hot and humid air dragged this far northward by Hanna and Ike. Yesterday's oppressive humidity, the dew point reached an icky 73 degrees, has been ushered away by an early morning cold front. The cool air behind the front won't get here until tomorrow, so for today we'll have to settle for a sunny, breezy and dry day with a high in the mid-80s.
The timing of this morning's frontal passage illustrates an obscure problem in recording climate data. A day's minimum temperature usually happens around sunrise. Today's low will occur at midnight tonight. A person taking weather observations at 8 a.m. will record a different minimum than someone who records the day's temperature at midnight. All official observations are now on the midnight-to-midnight schedule but lots of old climate records had to be cleaned up to get rid of the time of observation bias.
Bias or not, tomorrow will be cooler, with a sunny high in the lower 70s. More of the same is expected all week as a high pressure system parks itself over the region. Look for clear skies through next weekend. Highs each day should be in the seasonable mid 70s.
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Am I the only one who f-ing loves these weather briefs? I hope not. They're always great. Even when the weather is terrible
love them.
I usually don't comment on pics but this one is awesome. It's great cause it looks like something else. It looks like it's underwater and the coney island tower thing looks like a mutated seahorse jellyfish coral thing.
Ditto. Joe's the man. Who knew the weather could be fun to read about?
agreed. I like the fact that Joe actually tells you why things are happening, gives them context, instead of just zooming through the lower 48 with a bunch of H's and L's.
Aww shucks, thanks everyone!
gmpicket takes some amazing photographs. Most on pinhole cameras that she constructs.
I also heart the weather posts! Weather news makes my day.
weather = sexy
Love the weather posts!
i was wondering why there were so many comments on a weather post. i thought i was the only one that read them.
The weather posts are possibly gothamist's most consistently well written and informative pieces. Feel the love, Joe, feel the love.
Agreed! More weather, less Lohan.
Agreed with WorksinDumbo. More weather, less Lohan, and Jen Carlson should be fired.
Gothamist should drop all other coverage and just focus on the weather moving forward.
Hopefully the sticky, smelly humid weather is over until next summer.
Yesterday humidity was the worst and it wasn't even summer anymore - meteorology speaking.
Awesome. Great report, great weather.
Damn it, in a Costanza-esque "jerkstore" moment, I should have wrote:
"Soak it up, Joe..."
"Hopefully the sticky, smelly humid weather is over until next summer."
Hear, hear.