[Cambium]

Lets compare heatwaves...

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NWS OKX website just published their preliminary climate reports for the day. They're claiming that at 2:39pm Bridgeport (Sikorsky Airport in Stratford) briefly reached 103 degrees and tied both the record for the date and it's all time high temperature! BOX hasn't yet so no word on Hartford, though having the same 102 degree temp for 3 readings makes me think it went up to 103 somewhere in-between (heck, Bridgeport's 103 occurred as a TWO degree rise between 2 hourly readings of 101).

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UPDATE: Box has released their preliminary climate reports. Hartford/Bradley did hit it's all time record today by reaching 103-deg! For those curious, Boston fell 1 short of it's all time record, also reaching 103. This tied the daily record, set back in 1926.

The CT state record of 106-deg occurred in Danbury in 1995. They "only" maxed out at 97 today.

[Cambium]

100 degrees at 6pm? Someone please remind me what we can do in this without mention pool or ocean. Shades are closed so house stays cooler, cant do any activities outside, cant even drive with windows open. Its like we're hermits. I cant even stand or sit more than 10 minutes outside. No fresh air. Im a sprinkler. Grass is microwaved. Dog is bored. Wasps, bees, and flys all over the place.

Thank God this is just a couple days or months a year. But remind me, what do you do if your not a hermit?

Edit: 100 Degrees at 7pm. lol Sorry guys... heat is getting to me... .. At least 85 wont feel bad next week. LOL

[Cambium]

Outages starting to pop up..everyone coming home from work cranking the a/c.

Out of 3800 people CL&P serves in Weston..1300 are out.

[Cambium]

Some numbers for now....
*Newark hit 108 felt like 116. Shattered records.
*Central park 104. Broke record
*Stratford 103. Tied record
*Atlantic City heat index peak was 121 degrees!!

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Originally Posted by Cambium

Some numbers for now....
*Newark hit 108 felt like 116. Shattered records.
*Central park 104. Broke record
*Stratford 103. Tied record
*Atlantic City heat index peak was 121 degrees!!

Sidenote about the Stratford reading (which I call "Bridgeport" in other posts because the National Weather Service considers Sikorsky Airport to be the "Bridgeport" weather station). The daily record it tied today (1957) was also the station's ALL-TIME record. I know I mentioned that in an earlier post, but what I didn't mention is those are the only 2 times that a temperature of 101 or above has ever occurred there (100 itself has happened several times in the past).

[wavehunter007]

The bigger news…this July's monthly mean temp at Central Park is now closing in on getting inside the “top five” warmest July’s of all time. This morning, the July mean temp was bumped up again with all the heat yesterday – and now stands at 80.1 F (knocking out 1916 from 6th place). Now this July is tied for 5th place for the all time record hottest month:

Now the record looks like this:

81.4 1999
81.3 2010
80.8 1955
80.3 1952/August 1980
80.1 1993/2011

Note how 4 of the 7 hottest months on record occurred in the last 18 years (3 within the last 13 years).

So much for Joe Bastardi and his “global cooling” theories”…lol.

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Originally Posted by wavehunter007

The bigger news…this July's monthly mean temp at Central Park is now closing in on getting inside the “top five” warmest July’s of all time. This morning, the July mean temp was bumped up again with all the heat yesterday – and now stands at 80.1 F (knocking out 1916 from 6th place). Now this July is tied for 5th place for the all time record hottest month:

Now the record looks like this:

81.4 1999
81.3 2010
80.8 1955
80.3 1952/August 1980
80.1 1993/2011

Note how 4 of the 7 hottest months on record occurred in the last 18 years (3 within the last 13 years).

So much for Joe Bastardi and his “global cooling” theories”…lol.

I think it will be in the top 10, but not the top 5. Today will probably boost it up to 3rd or 4th place, but the next few days will drop it back below an 80-deg avg. Some predicted heating towards the end of the month (but so far not as extreme as now) might bump it back up a little. My prediction is it ends somewhere between 79.5 and 80.

Note that 2 of the 7 years up there are 3 years apart in the 1950s. If you look at a list of 100-degree days in Central Park, there's a whole bunch of them in the late 1940s thru mid 1950s before they almost disappear until the 1990s (i.e. none in most of 1980s (just 1980 itself), none between 1957 and 1966, or 1966 and 1977, hmm....is there something to those "double digit" years like 2011? :-)). We just came off an almost 9 year stretch with none (after August, 2001 none until last July). None after 1995 until 1999 (another "double digit" year, hmmm).

It all goes in "waves" dude. I think both Joe B. and the "global warming" camp both have some legitimate basis, but a lot of times both are exaggerated try to explain the "trendiness" of weather (the "warming" people were all into "cooling" in the 70s with an equally "theoretically scientifically logical" reason then). Granted, the last 30 years have trended more towards warm, especially with nighttime lows. During the 80s and early 90s some thought we'd never see "above normal" snowfall years again and after 2000 the "dam really broke" so to speak. Again, "waves".

[Cambium]

And the winner is.................

Hartford.. 112 degrees. Dont ask. lol These were yesterdays temps from different networks.