Entries by John Homenuk

PM Update: Heat continues, to be followed by more heat

Temperatures soared into the middle and upper 90’s today throughout the New York City area and, in fact, a large majority of the Northeast states. The heat was good for some records during the day (daily record at Islip, NY) and at night (many record warm overnight low temperatures were set). The temperature wasn’t even […]

Ridge over troubled waters: Tropical Atlantic ready to wake up

It has been a long, quiet summer. While heat and humidity have been recurring forecast themes in the Eastern and Central United States, the weather pattern throughout the tropical Atlantic has remained stagnant, if not dormant. There have been a myriad of factors that have contributed to a very quiet start to the season in […]

NYC Weekly Planner: Hot hot heat, humidity and storms

Welcome back to summer. After a few glorious days of temperatures in the 80’s and low dew points, the southerly flow is back – and it is bringing warmer, more humid air with. High pressure remained in control for most of the weekend, which was undoubtedly a nice change. But clouds have increased this evening […]

Beautiful weather continues, until it doesn’t

High pressure is providing a large majority of the Northeast states with beautiful weather conditions today – even despite the presence of some mid and and high level clouds. Low dew points and low relative humidity values have kept the air quite comfortable, and a warm late-August sun has kept the summer-like feel in the […]