Last July, MIH Ventures held their annual Heatwave gathering and left Prospect Park with an epic layer of trash covering it. The MIH folk didn't even have a permit for their large party (you need one...

We know this month has basically been one long heat wave, but we had no idea what we were putting up with. A reader's travel plans led to a rather interesting discovery. He wrote to us,...

With the heat advisory in effect for yet another day, the NYC Office of Emergency Management has opened cooling centers once again. 1010 WINS reports, "National Weather Service meteorologist Lauren Nash the weekend weather was part of...

Photograph by TALENA SANDERS on Flickr Okay, now that we've had a couple of days off it's time for another heat wave. The weather today is going to feel mighty oppressive with highs across the city...

Courtesy NASA Remember how it snowed a lot in February and Glenn Beck issued an "Amber Alert" for Al Gore, because obviously seasonal weather patterns debunk Gore's global warming hoax? (Beck crowed, "Well, the snow is...

Winter Games by Marc Dalio on Flickr A little respite in the snow before we jump into the heat. Cooled off? Okay, here are some 100 degree fun facts. Including yesterday, the temperature in Central Park...

On the home page of the NY Times website, a one sentence summary of their article about the heat wave reads: "The Northeast faced a fourth day Wednesday of a record-breaking heat wave, straining power supplies and...

Photograph by Larry Kofsky/1010WINS NJ Transit has this message on its website, "Due to equipment problems related to the extreme heat, NJ TRANSIT is advising rail customers to expect delays and cancelations during the morning commute...

Photograph taken at Brighton Beach yesterday by Lanna Apisukh [UPDATE BELOW] As of 1 p.m., the mercury hit 100 in Central Park, making today the hottest day in NYC since August of 2001. (According to NY1,...

The Manhattan skyline during the 1977 blackout (more blackout nostalgia here) With demand for electricity soaring along with the heat index, about 1,200 Con Edison customers have lost power in the Bronx, around East 237th Street....

In this photo from last August, a Harlem resident helps the MTA maintain its standards of cleanliness. (jphillipobrien2006's Flickr) "We're going to use more energy in the next couple of days than we've ever used before...

Sparking power lines in Queens (WCBS 2) Uh oh: As the city endures a sweltering heat wave, after 11:30 p.m. last night, power lines in the Corona section of Queens were sparking and on fire. WCBS...

Photo by CaptainKidder on Flickr Yesterday's heat was proof that the old saying "Yeah, but it's a dry heat" is true. Although the high reached 96 the heat wasn't necessarily overwhelming because the dew points remained...

There's a heat advisory for the city today, with temperatures expected to hit 100 degrees. And this week is expected to bring "Baked Apple" conditions. According to the National Weather Service, "A WARM RIDGE ALOFT AND...

Nearly Dark by Jorge Quinteros on Flickr Enjoy the mild weather today as the heat will be back with a vengeance this weekend. The temperature will climb to the low 80s this afternoon under clear blue...

Bicycling on Governor's Island by ChrisGoldNY on Flickr A is for Ana, heading for the DR. B is for Bill, staying out to sea. C is for Claudette, making the south wet. After a slow start...

sunset by Digiart2001 on Flickr. Cool, cloudy weather got you down this week? Fear not; what passes for an April heat wave will be here for the weekend. Why? The Bermuda High is making its first...

Do you know what yesterday, today and tomorrow have in common? Statistically speaking, they are the hottest days of the year, averaging 85 for a high and 70 for a low. In that sense the recent hot...

Hot enough for ya? The NY Times has a cheap, easy solution for cooling off: the heat wave haircut! The paper calls summer "scalping season" and says that barbershops have been flooded as the temperatures have been...

photograph by d_savage on Flickr Today is going to be downright unpleasant and tomorrow even worse. A big high pressure system off the Mid-Atlantic coast is pulling hot and humid air into the region. Look for...

The NYC Medical Examiner's office says six residents died from the heat wave which saw temperatures soar to record-breaking levels in high humidity. The victims all died of hyperthermia (aka heat stroke)-- 57-year-old man, 74-year-old woman, and...

The heat is on all across the Eastern Seaboard, and temperatures in New York City reached 96 degrees yesterday (just missing a record)--and it felt like even more with its densely-packed buildings and people. There were scattered power outages: Outages for 1,400 customers were reported by Con Ed, 788 by Long Island Power Authority (which had thousands on Monday), and 75,700 by PSE&G in NJ's Essex County.

Bring on the baked Big Apple references, because the "heat advisory" for Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond Counties remains in effect until 6 p.m. tonight. Another one will go into effect tomorrow between 1 p.m. and...

Enjoy the cool weather today as tomorrow is likely to be twenty degrees warmer. The fog and clouds this morning are typical precursors to the passage of a warm front. This particular front has some mighty hot...

Bar Boulud: Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni recently lost his patience waiting on hold for 15 minutes to make a reservation, which should give you some sense of how feverish the excitement is for Daniel Boulud’s latest...

READING: Dave Eggers has delivered two (out of three) great novels, and tonight he reads from last one (which is just out on paperback), What is the What. He'll be at the Strand discussing the book and he'll also give a slideshow presentation from a recent trip he took to Sudan. More info here. Friday // 7pm // Strand Bookstore [828 Broadway] // Free EVENT: We love a good pillow fight, and tonight there's a...

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's...

There are a lot of obscure weather and climate statistics and records. Two of Gothamist's favorites are the record low high temperature and the record high low temperature. Yesterday we had one of the former. The combination...

This afternoon's temperature has been bouncing up and down as the sun struggles to come out behind the cruddy clouds. This morning's clouds were leftover from a bit of convective activity to our south last night. A...

That wasn't much of a heat wave, was it? Two straight days with a high of 92 degrees barely rates mentioning. By comparision, the longest stretch of 90 degree days recorded in Central Park was 12 in...