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August 22, 2007
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 of being in a cold air mass and under heavy cloud cover also tied 1911 (WCBS didn't give the exact date) as having the lowest high temperature of any day in August. More fun facts! The high was... [continue]
| August 20, 2007
Hurricane Dean continues to gain strength as it heads toward the Yucatán peninsula. The hurricane, with sustained winds of 150 miles an hour, may intensify to a category 5 storm before it hits land tomorrow. Dean is currently expected to cross the Yucatán near the Mexico-Belize border, where it will weaken, then regain strength over the Bay of Campeche before slamming into northern Mexico. The storm passed a hundred miles south of Jamaica and the... [continue]
August 17, 2007
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 line of showers is approaching the city from the west. Some of those showers may be intense, as they hit the city later this afternoon and into the evening. A high pressure system behind today's cold front will... [continue]
August 15, 2007
Another sunny and mild day is on tap for today. The wind has shifted to come out of the southwest ahead of an approaching cold front. The wind shift means we'll see slightly warmer, with a high close to 90, slightly more humid air today. The front is weak and there's not much moisture associated with it so we should stay dry until tomorrow. Tomorrow will see a stronger cold front approaching in the... [continue]
August 13, 2007
So, last week's weather featured intense rain that shut down the subway system, a tornado skipping through Staten Island and Brooklyn, an unbearably steamy afternoon, and a couple days of near-record low temperatures. This week's weather should feature, uh… uh… well, not much of anything other than warm, sunny days. If you haven't already seen it the Brooklyn Daily Eagle has a nice, but small, map of the tornado path. First touching down on Staten... [continue]
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August 10, 2007
So far today over an inch of rain has fallen on Central Park. Most of the rain, except apparently when Gothamist stepped outside for a late lunch, was of the slow steady variety. The low pressure system that brought us the rain is moving out to sea and the skies should dry up from west to east over the remainder of the day. You might have noticed that it is cold outside. The temperature has... [continue]
August 8, 2007
As a reader reported earlier, a tornado may have touched down in Bay Ridge. Funnel clouds were spotted early this morning and a tornado warning was posted for Brooklyn, Queens and parts of Nassau County. We won't know if the damage was caused by a tornado, microburst, or straight line winds until the National Weather Service sends out a forensics team to investigate. Now that the rain is gone, 2.5 inches in Central Park... [continue]
August 6, 2007
The lead sentence on this morning's National Weather Service forecast: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 4pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. is so precisely worded as to make Gothamist wish we had taken a class on deconstructing literature rather than all those dumb meteorology courses. From what is stacking up to be a busy weather day we parse the NWS as saying that widespread, lighter showers will be the... [continue]
August 3, 2007
If the Weather Service forecast is right, today will be the hottest day of the year. There's been three days, including yesterday, where the high has reached 92 degrees. The NWS is forecasting a high of 94 in the city today. The Weather Channel and AccuWeather don't see us getting that warm. Then again, AccuWeather said yesterday's high would be 85. The combination of heat and humidity are going to fall a bit short of... [continue]
August 1, 2007
Quick July review: Cool. The average temperature was 75 degrees, a degree-and-a-half below normal and our coolest July since 2004. Wet. 6.89 inches of rain fell, our wettest July since 2004. Quick August preview: Hot. High temperatures are forecast to be within a couple degrees of 90 each day through Sunday. Today will be the most comfortable of the next several days as we're still on the dry side of a high pressure system that's... [continue]