Looking Back at New York Weather: July 2
1901 (Tuesday)
For the second day in a row the high reached 100°, the first time on record with back-to-back days in the triple digits. It would be 25 years before this happened again (in total, two or more days in a row has happened seventeen times, with the last time being in 2011).
1956 (Monday)
With a high of 93°, this was the fourth year in a row in which the high reached the 90s on this date.
1958 (Wednesday)
Today's high of 93° would be the hottest reading of the year. The last time a year's hottest temperature was this low, or cooler, was in 1927, when the hottest reading was 92°. (The next time it happened would be just two years later, when the summer of 1960's hottest reading was only 91°.)
1972 (Sunday)
Today's high of 91° was the year's first reading in the 90s - five weeks later than the usual first occurrence. Not since 1960 (when it occurred on 7/12) was the first 90+ so late. After today, July would have nine more days in the 90s, concentrated between 7/15 and 7/25.
1993 (Friday)
0.76" of rain fell during the PM hours, with two-thirds of it falling between 11 PM-midnight (which was actually midnight-1 AM on 7/3, but the NWS doesn't recognize Daylight Saving Time; rather, it uses Standard Time year-round for its record). After today, just 0.94" fell for the rest of the month. This followed an equally dry May and June in which just 1.56" and 1.49" was measured, respectively. Today's conditions kept temperatures cool, with a high of only 69° reported (14 degrees below average).
2001 (Monday)
The morning low was a refreshing 56°, twelve degrees below average, and tying the record set way back in 1888. A cooler reading wouldn't be reported for more than two months (53° on Sept. 14).
2002 (Tuesday)
Today's high reached 95°, the first of a dozen 90-degree days this month.
2004 (Friday)
Today was the first of three highs of 87° in July, the month's warmest reading. This was only the third July in the past fifty years with no highs in the 90s (later joined by 2009).
2014 (Wednesday)
This was the year's first day in the 90s, the latest date for this occurrence since the summer of 1985. It was sunny and uncomfortably humid, making the high of 91° feel like 96°. Some relief arrived after 6:00 when severe thunderstorms with vivid lightning rumbled through the area over the next four hours. Central Park picked up nearly an inch of rain from these storms.
2016 (Saturday)
Today's low of 63° would be the coolest reading in July, making this the seventh year in a row in which July had no lows in the 50s (and the streak continued until 2021). This was a new record, breaking a tie with another six-year stretch from 1966 to 1971.
in 2014, the first 90° day was extremely late (usually happens in late May), the first 80° day was on May tenth (usually happens in late April), the first 70° day was on April eleventh (usually happens in late March) and the first 60° day was on March eleventh (usually happens in early February).
Posted by: William | 01/23/2022 at 05:05 AM
1903 - According to the current NWS website, the low temperature was 87 with a high just 4 degrees higher, at 91. They list this as the hottest low temperature in Central Park history, far above #2 on the list, 84, set twice in 1908 (in July and August), and again in 1995 and 2011 (both times in July).
This is likely an error as as besides the extreme unlikelyhood of a 90+ degree day having such a low diurnal range, this has only been posted by them in recent years and previously the website listed the "record highest low temperature" as 84.
Posted by: Harry | 07/20/2022 at 07:18 AM