New York City Weather Archive

A Glance Back at New York's Weather: November 3

 

• 1980 - This was the 15th day in a row with below-normal temperatures.  During these days temperatures were six degrees chillier than average. 

 

• 1984 - Today was nine degrees colder than average (high of 49/low of 37), the first day with below average temperatures since October 7.  During these four weeks temperatures were seven degrees milder than average.

 

1992 - This was by far the rainiest presidential Election Day as 2.18" of rain fell during the morning.  (The previous Election Day record was in 1920 when 0.77" fell).  Including rain that fell yesterday, total rainfall from the storm system was 2.55".  This was more than double September's rainfall of 1.16" and the biggest rainstorm since June 5 when 2.80" fell.   

 

• 2003 - Today's high temperature of 79 was twenty-one degrees above average.  Besides being the warmest day of the month it was also the warmest day in 6-1/2 weeks since a high of 80 degrees on September 20. 

 

Today in New York Weather History: October 22

• 1972 - This was the 16th day in a row with below average temperatures.  During this long stretch, temperatures were eight degrees colder than average.

• 1979 - A flashback to summer as the temperature soared to 88, twenty-seven degrees above average. This was the warmest reading in October since 1941.  Fortunately for runners, this freakish warmth occurred the day following the New York City Marathon (but even on that day it was a toasty 80 degrees).  Despite these few days of summerlike conditions the month overall would be cooler than average by 1.4 degrees.

• 1984 - In a 15-minute period (8:30-8:45 PM), 0.55" of rain poured down and 1.01" fell between 8:30-9:30 PM.  It was also very mild, with a high of 77/low of 62.  The day's total rainfall day was 1.45", enough to set a record for the date.

 

 

Today in New York Weather History: October 10

 

1979 - Morning snow flurries fell after a low temperature of 37 degrees.  Combined with an afternoon high of just 47, the day was 19 degrees colder than average.

 

 

• 1990 - Today was the fifth day in row with a high temperature in the 80's.  (And there would be one more on the 14th.)  This string of unseasonably warm weather was part of ten straight days between October 6-15 that all had temperatures 10 degrees or more above average.  

 

• 2010 - Today's high of 80 was the latest date for an 80-degree reading since 1995 when it occurred on October 13.

 

 

Today in New York Weather History: October 7

• 1972 - 4.09" of rain fell today, a record for the date.  Most of it fell between midnight and 9AM.

 

• 1999 - This morning's low of 39 degrees, a record for the date, was the earliest reading in the chilly 30's in 25 years.

 

• 2005 - This morning's low of 70 degrees was the latest date for a 70-degree low in the 1979-2012 period (average low for the date is 52).  The afternoon high reached 76.

Today in New York Weather History: October 4

 

1983 - There was a variation of just two degrees between today's high (62) and low (60).

 

1992 - The morning low of 39 degrees was the earliest reading in the 30's since 1974.

 

2006 - After a very mild day (high 78/low 64), a cold front passed through after dark and generated a thunderstorm that drenched the City with 0.41" of rain between 10-11PM.

 

Looking Back at New York Weather: September 30

 

• 1986 - Today's summerlike high of 89 was 20 degrees above average and a record for the date.

 

 

• 2001 - Today's afternoon high of 55 was 15 degrees chillier than average.

 

2005 - Today's high/low of 67/50 made this the only day of the month that had cooler than average temperatures (4 degrees below normal).  Not only was this one of the mildest Septembers on record (+5.8 degrees), but one of the driest as well (0.48 inches).

 

• 2010 - 0.75" of rain fell in a 45-minute period just before daybreak (5-5:45 AM).  Overall, 1.10" fell during the morning.

 

Today in New York City Weather History: September 29

 

• 1979 - The morning low was a summerlike 71, fifteen degrees above average.  In the period 1979-2012 this was the latest date for a morning low in the 70's until 2005, when that year's last 70-degree low temperature fell on October 7.  (The average date for this occurrence is September 11.) 

 

• 1996 - The 0.18" of rain the fell between midnight and 3AM was the first rain on this date in seventeen years.

 

• 2000 - The morning low of 43 degrees was the chilliest reading in September since 1963.

 

Today in New York Weather History: September 28

• 1977 - This was the seventh day in a row in which some rain fell.  Today's was just 0.03", which fell between 1-2AM. (The first day of this streak also had 0.03" of rain.)  In total, three inches of rain fell during the seven days.  

 

• 1984 - The month's temperature extremes occurred three days apart as this morning's low of 44 followed a high of 86 on 9/25.

 

• 2004 - Three weeks after the remnants of Frances and ten days after Ivan, the remnants of a third tropical storm, Hurricane Jeanne, moved through.  By the time its rain ended the following morning, 4.66" had fallen, the most from a storm system since tropical storm Floyd dumped 5.44" in 1999.  The rain that fell today, 3.84", was a record for the date and brought the month's total to 11.41" making this the rainiest September since 1934. 

 

• 2010 - After a sultry morning low of 70 (fourteen degrees above average) the temperature rose only three more degrees the rest of the day.

 

• 2011 - For the past seven days the morning lows were between 68 and 70 degrees, twelve degrees above average and more typical of mid-August.  The high during these days averaged 77 degrees, five above average.

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• 2012 - Torrential downpours through mid-afternoon amounted to 1.96", much of which fell in a 2-hour period between 7:20-9:20 AM.  This was the second day this month with more than an inch of rain (1.54" fell on 9/18) and the first month with two such rain events since last October.  Additionally, this was the seventh year in a row, and tenth of the past eleven, in which rain fell on this date.

Today in New York Weather History: September 2

• 1977 - The Friday leading into Labor Day weekend was a scorcher, with a high/low of 94/75, thirteen degrees above average. 

• 1980 - The hot summer of 1980 continued as today's high/low was 96/75, fourteen degrees above average.

 

 

• 1988 - 0.33" of rain fell in a 10-minute period between 6:18-6:28 PM.

 

• 1991 - Today was Labor Day and the morning low of 53 degrees tied it with 1976 and 1883 as the chilliest reading on the holiday. 

 

• 1998 - The 0.69" of rain that fell this evening (between 6-9:00) was the first rain on this date in 13 years (when just .01" fell).  The rain forced postponement of the U.S. Open's evening matches.  

 

• 2002 - Rain fell throughout the morning of Labor Day, finally ending by 1PM.  In total 1.63" fell, just four years after the second rainiest Labor Day (2.03" fell from two severe thunderstorms).  

 

• 2006- The Saturday of Labor Day weekend started off cool and wet as tropical storm Ernesto moved through, dropping 1.24" of rain; the day's high was just 66, thirteen degrees below average.  Sunday and Monday, however, were very nice, but a bit cooler than average (mid-70's). 

 

• 2010 - Today was the fifth day in a row of 90-degree temperatures and the 36th such day this year - thirty of them occurring since July 1.  The morning low was a steamy 78 (fourteen degrees above average), tying 9/6/85 and 9/11/83 for the warmest low temperature in September in the 1979-2012 period.

Looking Back at New York's Weather: August 30

 

• 1980 - Today was the start of Labor Day weekend and it would be the hottest one of the 1979-2012 period.  Highs on the three days were 86-90-95. 

 

• 1985 - It was the Friday of Labor Day weekend and a brief but vicious thunderstorm struck in the middle of the afternoon.  I was walking home after seeing the movie Back to the Future on East 34th St. when the skies opened up.  I sought refuge under the awning of an apartment building in Gramercy Park to escape the heavy rain, hail and gale force winds, but it offered little protection so I retreated inside the lobby of the building.  The storm was very brief, about 15 minutes, but many trees in Washington Square Park suffered damage.  It turned out the storm was very localized as areas north of 34th St. weren't hit nearly as hard (Central Park measured just 0.16" of rain).  At the time this was the worst storm I'd experienced in my years living in New York.     

 

• 1986 - Today was the start of Labor Day weekend and the morning low of 51 was the chilliest reading of any day during Labor Day weekends between 1979-2012.  The entire holiday weekend was cool, with temperatures averaging eight degrees below normal.

 

• 1995 - This was the twenty-fourth day in a row with no rain.

 

• 2000 - Today's rain amounted to just 0.01", but it was the first to fall on this date in fifteen years.  This was also the 7th day in a row in which the mean temperature was one degree above or below average, tying a streak of similar length three years earlier (the longest such streaks in the 1979-2012 period.)

 

• 2006 - Rain fell for the seventh day in a row.  During this streak 3.32" fell.

 

• 2008 - 2.18" of rain fell today, most of it falling in the pre-dawn hours between 3-5AM.