Posted on 08/21/2007 1:25:40 PM PDT by edzo4
(CBS) NEW YORK Don't forget to bundle up if you're headed out in New York City today. After all, it is August 21.
The city along with the rest of the tri-state region is feeling the chilly effect of a cold front sweeping through the region, accompanied by cool rain showers.
As of 4 p.m., the high temperature for the day in Central Park was just 59 degrees.
The normal high for today is 82 degrees. The normal low is 67, still well above what the city is expected to see today. Forecasters say temperatures could warm up to only around 61, which would break a city record, though the high fell back again to 58 degrees at 3 o'clock.
"If this high holds up, it will smash the previous record for the coldest high temperature for the day, which is 64 degrees, set back in 1999," CBS 2 meteorologist Jason Cali told wcbstv.com.
In fact, if it doesn't warm up at all for the rest of the day, the 59-degree high would tie the record for the coldest high temperature ever for the month of August in New York City, when it reached just 59 degrees in 1911.
Today's highs are more common in the city for the final days of October, when the average high ranges from 59 degrees to 61 degrees.
The unusually cold air mass has come down from Canada, colliding with the moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
Only in the mid-60s in Baltimore.
Apparently, you haven’t received the memo. Record cold summers are a sure sign of global warming.
</removing tinfoil headgear>
I sure wish global warming would hurry up and get here already.
75 in Lincoln, Maine. Warmer tomorrow!
This is horrible news...Not only is Manhattan going to be underwater, now it looks like it’s going to be frozen, too!!
Global warming, don’t you know. After all, “warm” is a relative term.
Record weather, as well as any weather above or below average.
Algore on suicide watch within the year.
AlGore must be making a GoreBull Warming speech in NYC today.
This must really be pissing off Al Gore.
“The Planet has hypothermia!”
I live in upstate New York and I’m seeing yellow leaves on the ground already.... :(
Manbearpig must be on vacation.
I’m confused - is it “Global Warming” or is it “Bush’s Fault”?
- maybe “Global Warming is Bush’s Fault”.
They DO believe this, you know.
You better rake them up and put them back on the trees!>..........
We got down to 49 on Saturday night I think it was.
It is hot and humid(39%) at least for us here in Albuquerque. Our normal high for this time of year is 88 with about 10% humidity.
When it snowed in deep Central Texas in mid April I emailed a lib chick I know. She replied to me that "You must not know the principles of global warming because we should be expecting things like snow in Central Texas in April."
I wrote back and said: "Just look at what you wrote me, you should be embarrassed for such a statement that makes no sense."
Yes, but not until the day after tomorrow.
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