Today in New York Weather History: July 28
July 28 is one of two dates (the other is July 30) with four years sharing the record high - the most of any date. The record of 97° has been reported in 1999, 1949, 1931 and 1892. (There would be fewer ties if daily temperatures, like monthly averages, were reported to one decimal place.)
1883 (Saturday)
The 0.08" of rain that fell today was the last rainfall of the month, bringing the month's total to 3.21", which was the same amount as last July. Since then, it's happened two more times: Dec. 1916 and 1917 each had 4.25", while Dec. 1960 and 1961 each had 3.04".
1898 (Thursday)
Today was the second day in a row with a high/low of 80°/74°. Coincidentally, last year also had a pair of consecutive days with the same high and low on July 27-28 (67°/64°).
1902 (Tuesday)
An evening thunderstorm between 6:45-8:30 PM flooded the City with 3.08" of rain, with almost all of it (3.00") falling in just an hour's time (and two inches fell in a 30-minute period). This was Central Park's greatest 60-minute rainfall on record (until a storm on Sept. 5, 1913 dropped 3.31").
1913 (Monday)
11 years after an unprecedented one-hour downpour of 3.00" flooded the City on this date, nearly the same amount (2.74") fell this afternoon from 3-4 PM.
1921 (Thursday)
The high today was 94° and followed three days that had highs of 93° (yesterday), 92° and 91°.
1982 (Wednesday)
2.18" of rain fell today, with half of it pouring down in the hour between 5-6 PM. And within that hour 0.55" fell in the fifteen minutes between 5:00-5:15.
1985 (Sunday)
Today was the 13th day this month with a seasonable mean temperature (average of high/low), the second greatest number of any month in the 1970-2023 period (July 1975 had 14).
1988 (Thursday)
Rain fell during twelve of the past fourteen days, amounting to 7.44" (and during fifteen of the past twenty days, measuring 8.13"). It was a tropical wetness, as eight of the 20 days between 7/9 and today had highs in the 90s (all between 7/9-18), and four others had a high of 88° or 89°.
1999 (Wednesday)
This was the eleventh day this month with a high of 95° or hotter. And at 97°, today's high tied the record for the date (with three other years).
2008 (Monday)
The morning low of 66° was the coolest reading of the month (also reported on 7/11 and 7/25), the mildest coolest reading in July on record (until 2020, when the coolest reading was 67°).
2009 (Tuesday)
Today was the first day this month with an above-average mean temperature (high of 85°/low of 71° = mean of 78°) - and it was just one degree above average.
2015 (Tuesday)
Today's high of 95° was the hottest temperature on this date since 1999, when the record for the date, 97°, was reached.
2016 (Wednesday)
With a high of 95°, this was the seventh day of the past eight to see a high in the 90s (the one day without a high in the 90s, 7/26, had a high of 89°). The average high during these eight days was 93°. Today was also the 13th day of the past fifteen to have a high of 88° or hotter.
2023 (Friday)
Today's hot and steamy high/low of 92°/75° was the same as yesterday's, the third time this year a pair of consecutive days had similar highs and lows (the others were 4/25-26 and 5/28-29, with respective highs/lows of 60°/46° and 79°/59°. This was the seventh year in which July 27-28 had identical highs/lows, the most of any pair of calendar dates.
2010 - today's high/low of 89/74 would be duplicated tomorrow and the high/low of 85/66 on 7/30 would also be duplicated on 7/31.
Posted by: William | 07/27/2017 at 11:00 PM
Since the forecast shows no lows under 70 the next four days, it looks like (per your post above for 2008) that July 2019 will tie 1993, 1970 and 1955 for 2nd warmest "coolest reading" in July (lowest temp this month was 65 on the 1st).
Posted by: Harry Mandel | 07/28/2019 at 09:57 AM
And this will be the unprecedented tenth year in a row in which July hasn't had a reading in the 50s.
Posted by: Rob | 07/28/2019 at 04:23 PM
I see you are "jumping the gun" a bit on the 67 on July 1st of this year being the warmest "coolest reading" ever for July as it's not August 1st yet. To be fair, forecast doesn't show any lows under 70 this week so it's a good bet.
Posted by: Harry | 07/28/2020 at 12:13 PM
I figured that if I waited I'd forget to go back to this date. However, I've probably ensured that a thunderstorm will strike in the next few days and drop the temperature below 67.
Posted by: Rob | 07/28/2020 at 03:00 PM