the lowdown on NY’s crazy summer weather
this summer’s weather sucks, with weekends regularly getting rained out. it seems like we went through this last year too. to get a grip on our sanity, CityRag peeped the National Weather Services site, to help verify what’s going on…

NOAA reports on various locations around NY, we used the Central Park location (all locations around NY are pretty similar), and looked at the “since June 1” comparison – and there we found our answer…

this year’s PRECIPITATION (INCHES) SINCE JUN 1 is 10.90. the average is 8.74, so in the last 2 months we’ve had almost a 25% increase in the average amount of rain. and last year it was even worse, by this same time, NYC had recieved 14.87 inches of rain, around a 75% increase in the normal rain flow for June and July!

so the weather HAS been wet and whacky for a couple summers now! it’s good to know we’re not going crazy. we’re actually happy to be drought free, and enjoy the exploding lighting storms (this shot of lighting hitting a tree roadside was taken during the crazy storm this last Friday) but miss the swimming. and one more step towards sanity… the Gothamist is feeling it too!