long sleeved
not to be banal, but can anyone believe the weather we've been having? as we've plowed our way through one seasonally cool, overcast day after another, t.s.o.a. has been going around crowing about how we haven't had a 90 degree day this summer. turns out that this is technically correct, but not the way it was meant. the only day above 90 so far this year was June 9th (hi of 91), which comes before the start of the official summer season, though most people would consider summer to have begun once Memorial Day passes. since the beginning of June, we've had more days in the 60s (4) here in NYC than we have in the 90s and as many days below 80 as above it. perhaps you remember the complaints from this past winter about how cold it was. but if this cool summer is at all related to the frigid winter, we might have to rethink all the kvetching.
now, there's still the whole month of August to get through, and it wont be easy to keep this up, but the current 10 day forecast calls for nothing but 80s so we all just might emerge unscathed from this summer yet.
*UPDATE 8/2, 12:40pm* - once again i've scooped the NYTimes. from today's weather page (not available online): "The lack of midsummer heat is especially notable in New York City.....For the first seven months of the year, Central Park had only one day with a temperature of at least 90 degrees. Only 1902 and 1960 had an equivalent lack of hot days." right on! now if we could just recreate the 1960 presidential election.
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As someone who hates heat and takes to heart Montgomery Burns's claim "Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun," I like it when summer rain cools things down. But it seems like we've been getting more than usual lately. Especially heavy, pounding rain accompanied by thunder and lightning. What's the word on that, man of many statistics?
(FYI, in that wasteland known as the L.A. metropolitan area, where I grew up, it pretty much doesn't rain at all between May and October; the normal monthly precipitation for July is .01 inch.)
Posted by: jim | July 27, 2004 11:51 PM