These are the ten hottest weather temperature days in New York City history dating back to 1870. Weather temperature data has been collected in Central Park since 1870.
I've lived in the New York metro area most of my life, and though it can get hot in the city, the heat is usually not oppressive except for heat waves in the summer.
I've lived in the New York metro area most of my life, and though it can get hot in the city, the heat is usually not oppressive except for heat waves in the summer.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in New York City is 106 degrees, which occurred during the summer of 1936. The summer of 1936 was the hottest in the history of the United States. Dozens of hottest weather temperatures were set for states and cities all over the country in 1936.
Since 1870, there have been a total of about 60 days when the temperature reached 100 degrees or more in New York City. The decade with the most 100 degree days is the 1950s. During the 1950s, there were 12 days when the temperature reached 100 or more degrees.
With all the talk of global warming one would think New York City would have had many 100 degree weather temperature days in the last decade. But there have only been a handful of 100 degree days in the last 10 years in New York City.
10 Hottest Weather Temperature Days in New York City History
1. July 9, 1936 - 106 degrees
2. August 7, 1918 - 104 degrees
2. July 21, 1977 - 104 degrees
2. July 22, 2011 - 104 degrees
5. August 26, 1948 - 103 degrees
5. July 3, 1966 - 103 degrees
5. August 9, 2001 - 103 degrees
5. July 6, 2010 - 103 degrees
9-10. Eleven times the temperature in New York was 102 degrees
Last Three 102 Degree Days
July 15, 1995 - 102 degrees
July 10, 1993 - 102 degrees
July 21, 1991 - 102 degrees
Source:http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/climate/records/100degdays.html
It was July 15, 1995 not 1999
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment!
ReplyDeleteIt has hit 100 degrees in the Central Bronx more often then what is listed those readings are for the LaGuardia Airport with sits right on the water the Central Bronx recorded temperatures at least 123 degrees hotter than that with 108 being the hottest in the last 40 years of weather watching,. While coldest actual in that time has been -5
ReplyDeleteThe above should have read one to approximately three degrees. Either cooler or warmer taking into account the Inland location at least 5 miles from the water
DeleteThe 108 degree temperature recorded in the Bronx happened on the same day Newark New Jersey recorded 108 degrees back in 2011 for the hottest temperature ever recorded in either of those places in the last 40 Years of my record keeping
ReplyDeleteCentral Park in the middle of Manhattan as you might suspect has temperature readings that are just a tad more conservative with not neither as cold or as hot as the Bronx which lies in the mainland USA
ReplyDeleteIt should be noted however that as far as record-keeping back to the 1930s the coldest the Bronx has ever recorded according to my dad was -14 somehow Central Park recorded in -15 on that same date for the coldest ever recorded in the five boroughs
ReplyDeleteSince then record-keeping never took the temperature below -6 in the boros of Manhattan or the Bronx. Also interesting to note the same year that the temperatures hit -15 in Manhattan also reach 106
ReplyDeleteThe 103-degree reading on August 9, 2001 also occurred just one month before 9/11.
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