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Brrrr… An honest to goodness cold day! A low temperature in the single digits! Can you believe it? It's been nearly two years since it has been this cold. To be exact, the last time it was this cold was on January 28th, 2005, toward the end of an eleven day cold snap. Our current cold snap? A pathetic two days.

Fascinating fact: Although it may not have felt like it, the last nine days have been more than a degree below normal. Fascinating prediction: perception and reality are going to be in synch for the next week as it will both be and feel hot.

Everywhere but here, that is. Even though we had enough rain since Saturday to surpass 1922 as the tenth wettest June ever, the city did not get nearly as much rain as expected. Locations immediately around the city got more rain than us and up to a foot of rain fell in Delaware and Maryland, causing some communities to evacuate. Rain continues today. As the National Weather Service states in their discussion "…juicy airmass will continue to be the focus for showers..." Gothamist loves juicy airmasses! Once again, though, the heaviest rains will mostly stay to the west of the city.

The last weekend of spring promises to be sunny and hot. According to the Weather Service temperatures should max out around 90 tomorrow and the mid-90s on Sunday. Central Park's record high for June 19th is 98. We probably won't get that warm but we'll come close. The Weather Channel thinks we'll only get up to 90 on Sunday.

Wednesday: ten degrees above average. Thursday: six degrees below average.

It seems that the worst that AccuWeather (channel 7) was preparing us for is turning out to be the most likely storm scenario. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning effective from noon Saturday until noon Sunday. The NWS is now expecting between 12-15 inches of snow to fall over the city during that period. The snow will be accompanied by high winds with frequent gusts over 35 mph. Whiteout conditions, with zero visibility, are possible at times.

It's one of our favorite advertising slogans courtesy Time Out NY... 'Welcome to New York. Now get out." The NY Times answered a question from a reader yesterday about coastal evacuation signs that are posted high on lamposts in Astoria wondering what sort of impending doom prompted those. If a hurricane hits our low-lying city, the biggest risk comes not from the winds (although, they could be bad yes), but from the storm surge, the mass of water driven by winds and the low barometric pressure of the hurricane. You thought the subway drainage problem was bad? So how many of you have any clue if you should evacuate or how to evacuate if the situation arises?

Gothamist loves it when the National Weather Service gives us a snappy headline in their forecast discussion. The things to ponder haven't changed in several days. A cold front has stalled to our west and the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie are getting closer. Interestingly, the AccuWeather forecast differs greatly from the Weather Service forecast.

Isolated thunderstorms, but not until around 4PM. High of 83.

As hurricane season gets officially underway, tornadoes are stealing the spotlight. As reported by Leslita, yesterday a tornado touched down in northern New York and another one was reported in New Jersey, though may not have actually touched down. Still, it's only June and it seems like we've been getting our fair share of severe weather and wonderfully entertaining thunderstorms.

- The woes of Global Dimming