May 28 is the average date of New York's first reading in the 90s. Since 1970 it's happened as early as April 7 (in 2010) and as late as July 14 (in 1985). This date is more than two weeks earlier than what the average date was in the years before 1930, which was June 14 (1870-1929).
1886 (Friday)
For the eighth time this month the low was 51°.
1887 (Saturday)
Although it was just 0.16", today was the rainiest day of what would become the driest May on record (until May 1903).
1973 (Monday)
Today was Memorial Day and 0.59" of rain fell during the morning. The afternoon remained overcast and the high reached 70°, five degrees below average.
1977 (Saturday)
Today's high was 92°, the ninth day in a row with a high of 80° or warmer (and twelfth of the past thirteen days). During this warm spell, the high averaged 83°, nine degrees above average.
1984 (Monday)
For the second year in a row more than an inch of rain fell on Memorial Day. Last year (5/28) it fell in the early morning and evening. This year it fell during the afternoon.
1985 (Wednesday)
0.54" of rain fell in 30 minutes between 5:41-6:11 PM. 0.93" fell during the entire evening.
2012 (Monday)
Today was Memorial Day and for the seventh consecutive year the holiday had a high in the 80s. Today's high was 89°, tying 1999 and 1991 as the hottest Memorial Day since 1969, when it was 91°. Today also had the year's first low in the 70s, about a week earlier than average, and the earliest since 2007 (when it occurred on May 26).
2013 (Wednesday)
Today's 0.52" of rain was the last rainfall of the month, bringing the total to 8.00" (the wettest May since 1990). This was just the sixth month in the past 100 years to have a monthly precipitation total exactly at the inch mark.
2014 (Thursday)
One day after a sultry high of 86° (which drove me to turn on my a/c for the first time this year), today was overcast, with afternoon temperatures only in the upper 50s.
2021 (Friday)
Morning sunshine gave way to overcast skies in the afternoon, and rain moved in after 4:00 (just as the Memorial Day weekend was getting underway). The rain became steady and wind-swept for the rest of the day (peak gust was 36 mph at Central Park), and amounted to 1.22", which was a record amount for the date (the rain continued thru the morning of 5/29).
The temperature dropped from 69° in the early afternoon to 49° less than twelve hours later. This was the latest date for a reading in the 40s since 2000 (when it happened on 6/7).
2022 (Saturday)
An isolated, severe thunderstorm struck Central Park early in the afternoon, dumping 0.64” of rain in less than an hour (and there was a wind gust of 42 mph). By contrast, Newark, LGA and JFK had very little rain (and my Greenwich Village neighborhood didn’t get hit as hard as CPK).
Combined with rain early in the morning, the day’s total rainfall of 0.72” became the most to fall on the Saturday of any Memorial Day holiday weekend. (Pushing ahead of the 0.68” that fell in 1982, and 0.65” in 2020).
2013 was a Tuesday and 2014 was a Wednesday.
ReplyDelete2024 (Tuesday)
Today was the seventh day in a row, and the eighth of the month for a low of 65°+. Under partly cloudy skies the mercury rose to 79°, making for a much better day than the dreary Memorial Day yesterday.
2025 (Wednesday)
With June quickly getting closer it did not seem like the rain and abnormal chill theme wanted to end. It returned today. Temps were in the 60s until noon, when they fell to the 50s and stayed there for the rest of the day, ultimately bottoming at 52° at dusk. 0.49" of rain were measured during the PM hours. Additionally, today's high of 65° matched last year's low, the second time that's happened this month after the 25th.