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A week ago, Gothamist was rhetorically asking if our days of 80-degree weather were behind us until next spring. Now it is looking like we will have at least one more warm spell before fall sets in. That got us to wondering what the latest days were that Central Park reached 80 or 90 degrees. We churned through the daily temperature data from 1971 to the present to plot the graph above. The latest date that it warmed to 90 was September 22nd in 1980. The latest 80-degree day occurred in 1979 on October 22nd. The median latest 90 degree day is August 24th, and the median last 80-degree day is September 23rd. In 1993 the last 90- and 80-degree days were the same day, September 15th.