NYC June 8-14 Forecast

Day	Morning Low/Afternoon High Temp(*F)	Description
Monday	60-63/77-80	Mix of clouds and sun and breezy. Scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening. Scattered showers continue through the night.
Tuesday	65-68/81-84	Scattered showers/thunderstorms around through the morning, and again during the afternoon. Warm.
Wednesday	66-69/81-84	Mostly sunny skies.
Thursday	67-70/85-88	Partly cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms around during the evening.
Friday	66-69/84-87	Mostly sunny skies.
Saturday	67-70/84-87	Mix of clouds and sun. Scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Sunday	66-69/80-83	Mix of clouds and sun.

This week, the story is the major warm up! After a week of cold rainy days, the next week will feel like a whole new season. A low pressure system will move into the area Monday bringing up warm and moist air from the Gulf. As the temps rise into the upper 70’s and low 80’s, thunderstorms will likely develop ahead of the cold front and move into the area Monday evening. The front will become stationary, and will keep the chance of rain around through Tuesday before moving out of the area. The rest of the week looks nice and calm, except for an isolated thunderstorm Thursday do to warm temps ahead of a quick moving cold front. The chance of rain returns next weekend though, but temps should still be in the lower to upper 80’s. Enjoy the week everyone!

Photo Dump #2: July Storms, 2014

I know that it’s about to be winter time, but I wanted to upload these photos before too much time passed. Plus, it’s always fun to go back and look at the pictures to remember the thrill of the moment!

Some photos of lightning taken in July, 2014.

Photo Dump #1: July 2, 2014

These photos were taken in Prospect Park on July 2 as the first wave of thunderstorms came through associated with a large low pressure system Wednesday afternoon.

 

The two pictures above show the gust front on a storm that rolled past just to the northwest of Brooklyn. For those who don’t know, the gust front is that lower part of the cloud that looks like a shelf, which is why they are also called “shelf clouds.”

The photos above show the contrast between the dark skies, and the brighter spots.

This was taken as the first storm continued to move away, and more storms started forming to the south and west of the city. I like the colors and to see how the clouds build upwards.

 

The photos above were taken as a storm approached Brooklyn. On the second photo, just behind the trees, you can see clouds that were being sucked into the storm by inflow.

Keeping It Active

So I posted this photo on Facebook already, but I wanted to write something before the week ended. I’m sorry I did not make a forecast for this week, but next week, I’ll be back! Anyway, I took this photo July 2 in Brooklyn, NY, literally my backyard. That’s just one of plenty photos I’ve taken between July 2 and 3, and my favorites will all be posted soon. This was my third and fourth time going to the park to watch the storms, and I loved it so much! I always hate to ask for more, but I can’t wait for the next storms to come so I can stand in that field for hours! It’s just such an amazing feeling! Weather Is Life

A Perfect Example Of NYC’s Weather

This is the radar animation from Wednesday the 25 through Thursday the 26, between 10:54pm and 12:46am. The light green is drizzle, the dark green is light rain, the yellow is moderate rain, the orange is heavy rain, the reds usually indicates thunderstorms, and pink indicates severe. There weren’t any severe storms last night, except for one around the Baltimore/D.C. area, but that’s irrelevant. The reason I’m showing you these radar images, which are from http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=ENX-N0Q-1-48 the College of DuPage website, is because this situation happens so often in New York City.
In the beginning of the animation, you see the oranges and reds in the squall line (a line of continuos thunderstorms) from north to south moving from west to east towards the city. The line had formed early in the daytime around 1-2pm and formed just ahead of the cold front. I was watching it all day as it slowly approached the coast. I figured that once it got dark the storms would begin to fizzle out, but they lasted for a couple hours after the sun had set. I went out for the first time around 11:15pm and could already see the lightning. As I stood out there waiting for the lightning to get closer to start taking pictures, after about twenty minutes, it just stopped. I went back inside and looked at the radar, and as usual, the storms fizzled out just as they approached the city.
When you look at the radar animation, you can see it very clearly, the colors went from reds to yellow, to green, and in some areas, it stopped raining completely. What really gets me annoyed is that once the storms get past the city, they often reform, and I’ve never seen a better example than the one above. This was probably the third time this has happened already this year, and I’ve seen it happen countless times in the past. I haven’t found any answers as to why this happens, and I’ve been doing some research myself to figure out what causes this to happen and so often. For those of you who love thunderstorms, cross your fingers with me so that the storms make it to the city next time!