June 2024 Weather Recap: 4th Warmest on Record
June 2024 was the warmest June since 1994, and the fourth warmest June on record. The hottest period was the eight days between 6/19 - 6/26 when the average high/low was 90°/73°, with six of the days reporting highs in the 90s. The reading of 94° on 6/21 was not only the hottest reading of the month, it was hotter than any day last year.
A dozen days in June were five degrees or more above average while just one was five degrees or more below average. This was the seventh month in a row that was warmer than average; five of them, including June, were three degrees or more above average (June was +3.1 degrees).
With 1.71” of rain measured in Central Park, this was the 21st driest June on record (tied with June 1926). This was the second consecutive June with less than two inches of rain (1.62" fell last year). About half of the month’s rain, 0.77”, fell on 6/6. After that, less than an inch of rain fell for the rest of the month.
Just one day had a low cooler than 60°. (A typical June has seven such days.) This occurred on 6/11, when the low was 59° - the mildest reading of any of June's coolest low temperatures (going back to 1869).
The month's coolest high temperature was 73° (typically, June’s coolest high is in the mid-60s). Only two other Junes have had a milder reading as their coolest high temperatures - 74° in June 1994, and 76° in June 1925 (on eight days).
Finally, three days had afternoon humidity levels lower than 25% (on 6/1, 6/25, and 6/28) - the most of any June in the years since 2000.
Here are links to June recaps from the previous eight years:
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