Northeast cities record their hottest June day ever

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As record-breaking heat continues across the Northeast, you may be wondering when relief will come. AccuWeather forecasters have some good news for you.

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00:00Dave, you've been forecasting here for many decades at AccuWeather, especially dialed into the Northeast.

00:05So thanks for joining us.

00:07Absolutely. 45 years, Jeff.

00:09That's good. Well, we are so glad to have you still with us here as a critical part of our team, David.

00:14Dave, it has been so hot in the Northeast. It's early in the season for this.

00:18Can you talk about how temperatures are being influenced right now by the flow?

00:22Yesterday, we had a sea breeze that kept us near 80 for part of the day in Boston. Not the case today.

00:27Not the case today. We had what we call a land breeze.

00:30Basically, the air is just coming from land right toward the coast.

00:35If you look at the temperatures right along the coast from New England down to the Jersey Shore and so forth,

00:42it got hot right to the beaches today because you had the wind blowing out of the west or northwest,

00:47a land component all day that was a strong enough breeze.

00:50So, yeah, it got hot everywhere and very unusual to get this amount of heat.

00:55These temperatures like we have, especially this early in the season, but really any time,

01:01we're talking record highs and sometimes all-time June highs in some places.

01:06Yeah, this is impressive. So here are the stats.

01:09Ice slip, sometimes we eek.

01:13I agree. We broke the record by four degrees there in Ice,

01:16a place that is a little resistant to big time heat.

01:19You got the Long Island Sound to the north and the Atlantic to the south.

01:21Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right. I mean, it's an island and it's surrounded by water all over,

01:29and so it is very tough to get temperatures much into the 90s in a place like ice.

01:34But here we go, 100 degrees. Very, very impressive.

01:37101, and that was just reached 15, 20 minutes ago at Boston, Logan Airport.

01:44Yeah, very impressive stuff.

01:45Well, as we look at a little more context here, you can see the last time we hit 100 degrees in June

01:51in some of these areas, Burlington, you have to go back to 1995.

01:54Now, we're not going to do it today there in most cases,

01:57but very rare that we get this kind of heat this early in the season.

02:02One of the problems with this heat wave, Dave, has been the relentless warmth at night.

02:06Yeah, that's the one thing to get heat, and if you have low dew points, low humidity,

02:12it'll cool off nicely at night, but we've had pretty high dew points,

02:17especially, again, for this time of the year, this early in the summer,

02:21and that prevents the temperatures from dropping a whole lot at night,

02:25and that makes it quite oppressive with the temperatures in some of the cities

02:30not dropping below 80 degrees in Philadelphia and New York City and so forth.

02:35And you and I were talking about how we had so many cool, wet weekends.

02:39Our bodies have not been acclimated to this.

02:41If we took the same heat wave and put it in August in an average summer,

02:45it probably would hit us a little less hard than it's hitting us right now.

02:48Oh, that's exactly the case.

02:50It's kind of like, you know, coming out of the fall, we've had a lot of warm weather,

02:54and all of a sudden, boom, you know, here's an Arctic cold shot here

02:58where you've got temperatures not getting out of the teens or 20,

03:01so it's a shock to the system.

03:03And I think the same thing is happening for a lot of folks in the Northeast,

03:06that it's been so cool, we've had so many cloudy, wet days and everything,

03:10and this is a huge change.

03:12But as you get later into the summer, July and into August,

03:15you have a more mature summertime atmosphere.

03:19The jet stream is lifted as far north as it's going to be.

03:23And so you could get days where you could have a longer duration heat wave in the Northeast,

03:27and also people are more accustomed to the heat and humidity,

03:31or at least the warmth and humidity by that time.

03:33And, Dave, could we find an end point to this?

03:36I know the ridge begins to break down a little bit beginning tomorrow.

03:41Yeah, actually, you're going to see some thunderstorms,

03:43maybe some strong to severe with a front pushing southward.

03:47This is actually going to be a pretty strong backdoor cold front for this time of the year.

03:51You and I have talked about backdoor fronts,

03:53and there's going to be a pretty big change.

03:55We break the heat wave in New York City

03:57and even down to Philadelphia on Thursday

03:59and even cooler on Friday.

04:02Yeah, we're looking forward to this backdoor front dropping in.

04:05And it's going to be a huge change in temperature here

04:07comparing today where we are right now and Thursday.

04:10So, Dave, we appreciate all of your insight here.

04:13Critical part of our forecast team,

04:15AccuWeather Northeast expert Dave Dombeck.

04:17Thanks again, Dave.

04:18You bet.

04:18My pleasure, Jeff.

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