1924 (Wednesday)
On a showery day, the high/low was only 50°/47°. The high was 20 degrees below average.
1971 (Friday)
Although just 0.03" of rain fell (between 3-4 PM), it was the first measurable rainfall on this date in 17 years. The day was gray and cool with a high of only 60°.
1985 (Tuesday)
Heavy rain fell between 5-11 PM, amounting to 1.60". During one 15-minute period (between 6:55-7:10 PM), 0.48" of rain poured down.
1996 (Tuesday)
This was the second day in a row with a record high as the mercury topped out at 93°. After today, the next day in the 90s wouldn't be for another two months (and it would be the only other 90-degree day of the summer.)
2002 (Tuesday)
This was the last of four consecutive days with morning lows in the chilly low 40s, well below the average of 55°.
2012 (Monday)
After four days in a row of sunny and mild weather, today was a gray, rainy Monday. 1.40" of rain fell, with a particularly heavy downpour occurring during AM rush hour, with 0.57" measured between 9-10:00.
2013 (Tuesday)
Today was just the second 80-degree day of the year, coming six weeks after the first (4/9). This was the greatest number of days between the first and second 80-degree day in eight years, when there was a gap of 45 days. (The longest gap in the years since 1900 was 58 days in 1928). Today's high of 86° was the warmest reading since the first week of September 2012.
2022 (Saturday)
At long last the temperature reached the 80s for the first time this year, the latest date for this occurrence since 1988 (which, ironically, had a hot summer). This is the tenth latest date on record. And with a high of 90°, this was just the fourth year to have the first 80 and first 90 occur on the same date (joining 1918, 1927 and 2010). This was the first reading in the 90s in May in four years.
Besides the heat, the air was oppressive, with afternoon dew points in the 68-70° range. The morning low of 62° was the coolest reading on a day with a high in the 90s since 2010, when there was a low of low of 56° on 4/7 (the earliest date on record for a reading in the 90s).
1990 (Monday)
ReplyDeleteToday was miserable and the chilliest day of the month, with a high/low of just 51°/47°. Aside from being bitterly cold, it was also wet with 0.23" of rain measured.
1991 (Tuesday)
The low of 51° was the same reading as last year's high. This year, the mercury rose to 82° today.
2009 (Thursday)
The mercury peaked at 86° today under mostly sunny skies. It would be the warmest reading of both this month and July.
2015 (Thursday)
Today's high of just 62° would be the coolest maximum of the month. Eventually, June's coolest maximum would be seven degrees chillier (55° on the 2nd).
2025 (Wednesday)
The mercury slowly fell all day, from a high of 59° at 2 AM, down to 49° as midnight approached. PM temperatures were only in the low 50s, and the day was mostly raw & wet as a developing nor'easter moved up the coast.
Today was the deepest into May since 2021 for a high below 60°, when it occurred on the 29th and 30th amid a wet and "frigid" Memorial Day weekend.
2022 also had a very hot summer with no highs below 80° in July (after 1944, and before 2024 and 2025), and August being the 3rd hottest on record (the last time August was hotter than average).
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