Looking Back at New York Weather: July 6
1911 (Thursday)
This was the fourth day in a row with a stifling low of 77°. The highs on these four days were also very similar - and HOT: 100°-97°-97°-98° (today).
1935 (Saturday)
Today had the first reading in the 90s of the year, the latest date for this occurrence since 1927. (By contrast, each of the previous six years had their first reading in the 90s in May.) In total, the year would have ten days in the 90s (and ten days with a high of 89°).
1940 (Saturday)
The first six days of the month all had lows in the 50s, which is the longest such streak in the month of July. The lows ranged from 57° to 59° (highs ranged from 73° to 84°).
1956 (Friday)
Although yesterday was cool (high/low of 66°/58°), today was even cooler as the high/low was just 61°/57° under gray skies and with winds from out of the northeast. The day's high was 22 degrees below average and is the coolest high temperature ever reported in the month of July (through 2024).
1979 (Friday)
This was the second morning in a row with a record low; today it was 54°.
1986 (Sunday)
With a high/low of 98°/75°, today's mean temperature of 86.5° (the average of the high and low) would be the hottest of the summer. This came just two days after the coolest reading of the month, which was 55°.
1988 (Wednesday)
Today was the beginning of a six-week heat wave, which would have twenty-three days of 90-degree weather. The average high/low during these six weeks was 91°/73° (five degrees above average).
1999 (Tuesday)
For the second day in a row the high reached 101°. And the morning low provided little relief as it was an unbearable 83°. This was one of three days this year with highs of 101° (the others were 7/5 and 7/19), but today's low was the warmest of the three dates, making it the date with the hottest mean temperature of 1999.
2003 (Saturday)
Despite a sultry morning low of 77°, the high failed to reach 90°, topping out at 89°.
2005 (Tuesday)
1.26" of rain poured down between 1-2 AM. This was the first measurable rain to fall on this date in 13 years.
2010 (Tuesday)
For the first time since the summer of 2001, a triple-digit temperature was reached in Central Park. Today's afternoon high of 103° was the hottest reading since Aug. 9, 2001.
2019 (Saturday)
Uncomfortably high humidity (the dew point for much of the day was in the 72°-74° range) made the high temperature of 90° feel like 99°. Strong thunderstorms in NY State, central/eastern PA and northern NJ that appeared to be approaching the City from mid-afternoon onward, all dissipated, producing only some passing sprinkles, but no measurable rainfall. Today was the 14th day in a row with highs of 83° or warmer, the longest such streak since one of 17 days in August 2016.
2020 (Monday)
The mercury jumped to 96°, which would be the hottest reading of the summer. Fortunately, the humidity was on the low side (30-35%). Relief arrived late in the afternoon when strong thunderstorms dropped a little more than a half inch of rain, mostly between 4-5 PM, cooling the temperature to 70°.
2021 (Tuesday)
After a steamy high of 92° (the third year in a row with a high in the 90s on this date), severe thunderstorms between 6-11 PM dropped the temperature some 20 degrees. (Winds gusted close to 60 mph at LaGuardia and Newark airports, and a 37 mph gust was clocked at Central Park.) This evening's rainfall amounted to 0.55", and brought the seven-day total to 3.11".
2022 (Wednesday)
Today's high was 85°, the seventh consecutive day with highs of 85° or warmer. The last time there was a streak this long was in June 2020 (6/20-26). The average high/low during the streak was 87°/71° (2020's was 87°/72°).
2023 (Thursday)
On the day that scientists reported was the hottest globally of the past 125,000 years, it was a hot day in Central Park, with a high/low of 90°/75°, six degrees warmer than average. (Yesterday's high was 93°.)
2024 (Saturday)
Sunny, hot and quite humid. Like yesterday, the dew point was in the 72°-74° range all day, making the high of 92° feel like it was in the upper 90s. Today was the tenth day since 6/19 to have a high of 89° or hotter (eight were 90+). And this was the fourth year of the past five to have a reading in the 90s on this date (2022 was the exception).
2018 - this was the tenth July since 1900 (half of which occurred in the past two decades) in which the first six days of the month all had a low temperature of 69° or warmer. this resulted in the fifth warmest July 1 to July 6 ever. the six days averaged a mean temperature of 83.0°. rain-wise, today's 0.23" was the first on this date in eleven years when just 0.03" fell.
Posted by: William | 07/07/2018 at 11:40 AM
also in 2020, this was a rare summer day where Central Park was hotter than both Newark (94°) and Philly (92°). by the way, Teterboro airport in Bergen County, NJ had 2.80" of rain in one hour during the afternoon (an additional 0.09" would fall for the rest of the day), and when this rain fell, the temperature was 70°, which was 22 degrees colder than what the temperature was two hours earlier.
Posted by: William | 07/06/2020 at 11:42 PM
2021 was the second July in a row where the month’s warmest reading happened on this date. the high of 92° came three days after a cold (by July standards) high/low of 66/59, which is normal for late April to early May.
Posted by: William | 07/28/2021 at 03:15 AM
2022 was only the third July since 1970 (after 2012 and 2019), and just the twelfth July overall, in which the first six days of the month all had a high of 85° or warmer. four of the twelve were same digit years (1911, 1955, 1966 and 2022).
Posted by: William | 07/07/2022 at 12:56 PM