this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.
The daily average last month was at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this was the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record.
I especially like this factoid, reported so calmly:
In the end, this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881, when sweltering New Yorkers grumbled about a sudden early August heat wave.
If that factoid had been reversed and it had been the hottest June and July since 1881, can you imagine the screaming headlines of doom?
1 comment:
and still they were discussing the record heat in other parts of the country on the early show last week. not a peep about record lows.... and they are based in new york! jeeze.
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