JANUARY
9 - Today and the previous two days, NYC was buffeted by high winds gusting between 35-45 mph each day. Although there was no precipitation to contend with, temperatures were seven degrees colder than average, with highs/lows of 33°/19°, 30°/23°, and 33°/22° (today).
18 - Until today the only precipitation that had fallen this month was snow, but when 0.09" of rain fell this afternoon, it was the deepest into January for its first measurable rainfall since 1896 (when the month's first rain fell on 1/24).
31 - This was just the fifth day this month to have measurable rain. The 0.16” that fell, mostly after dark, brought the month’s paltry total to 0.61”, finishing with just 0.03” more than Central Park’s driest January on record, in 1981.
FEBRUARY
6 - Although today's accumulation of snow/ice (before dawn) was just 0.5", this was the first accumulating snow to fall on 2/6 in Central Park since 2004 (when 0.7" "piled" up). Despite this lengthy hiatus, Feb. 6 is tied with Jan. 27 as the second most likely date to report measurable snowfall. (Feb. 3 is ranked #1, having had 30 years w/snow, one more than Feb. 6 and Jan. 27.)
MARCH
1 - Today' s high of 64° was the first reading in the 60s this year (about a month later than usual) and the mildest reading since 11/18. (This rise into the 60s was a surprise as the predicted high was mid-50s). But this touch of spring lasted just a few hours as an Arctic front moved through after 2 PM, dropping the temperature to the upper 20s as midnight approached (on the way to a low of 20° at daybreak on 3/2). This 36-degree slide in temperature was the greatest drop during a calendar date since a drop of 50 degrees on Dec. 23, 2022 (from 58° to 8°).
5 - A rainstorm lashed the area between 4-11:30 PM, producing 1.71" of rain; this was 0.10" below the record amount for the date in 1920. Between 6-7 PM 0.63" poured down, which was more than what fell in all of January. This was Central Park's biggest daily rainfall since 8/18, when 2.29" was measured.
7 - Just two days after a soaking rain, the humidity dropped to 16% this evening. This was the lowest humidity reading since last April (15% on 4/26). It was also the tenth day this year with very low humidity (a reading of 25% or lower), the most by this date of any year this century (on average, there are three by 3/7).
22 - Today was the last day of a 19-day streak with above average temperatures, a period that was six degrees above average. This was the longest above-average streak since last winter when there was one of 22 days. (And the previous winter there had been a streak of 36 days.)
27 - Late this afternoon, Central Park's humidity level fell to 13%, making this the 15th day this month with a humidity level of 25% or lower - the most days of any month this century. This broke a tie with May 2023. A typical March has five days with very low humidity (the previous high in March was 12 in 2023).
29 - Until today, the mildest reading of the year had been 66° nearly three weeks ago, but this afternoon's high soared to 81°, making 2025 just the ninth year that Central Park's first reading in the 80s occurred in March. And it was third year to have 3/29 as the date for its first-80 (the other years were 1977 and 1985.) The previous time a first-80 was in March was four years ago. (Average date is 4/21.) Additionally, this year was the 12th to share the date of its first-80 with the date of its first 70+ reading.
A few hours after this high was reached the mercury tumbled by 26 degrees in just one hour, between 5-6 PM (from 79° to 53°), the result of a back-door cold front. And by midnight the temperature had fallen an additional ten degrees. This 38-degree plunge bested the 37-degree drop on 3/1.
This drastic change came the day after the anniversary of Central Park's greatest one-hour drop on record - 28 degrees on March 28, 1921 (from 81° to 53°).
30 - The day after NYC had its first reading in the 80s this year, today's high was only 48° (seven degrees below average). This is the first time on record that a first-80 was followed by a high in the 40s.
APRIL
4 - Overnight temperatures stayed in the low 70s (where they'd been since late afternoon yesterday), which was thirty degrees milder than average for the pre-dawn hours during the first week of April. This would be the warmest part of the day, but temperatures stayed in the 60s, still well above average. AM clouds became mixed with sunshine as the afternoon progressed. Today was Opening Day for the Mets, who shut out Toronto.
7 - Today was the ninth day of the past eleven in which Central Park received measurable rain. During these days 2.61" of rain was measured (0.13" fell today, mostly during the afternoon). On this dreary, raw day, the temperature was stuck at 42° during the PM hours.
9 - This morning's low of 31° was Central Park's first low of freezing or colder in April since 2021, and the latest date for a sub-freezing reading since 2016 (when it fell on 4/10). It was also the first low this cold since 3/23.
10 - Including today, the last four times measurable rain fell on this date the amount was 0.01" (2025, 2021, 2020, and 2018).
12 - Rainy and cold with a high/low of 40°/36°. The high was 21 degrees below average and was the coldest daily high since 3/3 (when the high was 39°). Since yesterday evening 1.04" of rain fell in Central Park (0.63" of it fell today). This was the ninth day this month with measurable rainfall.
19 - One week after the high struggled to reach 40° (21 degrees colder than average), today's high jumped to 85° (22 degrees warmer than average). This was the warmest reading in Central Park since the end of August.
20 - It was a beautiful Easter Sunday, with nary a cloud in the sky. Afternoon temperatures were slightly above average, rising into the upper 60s (however, the day's high was 73°, occurring between midnight and 1 AM). Late in the afternoon the humidity fell to 15%, which was similar to the humidity level on Easter Sunday two years ago.
26 - A quick-moving evening thunderstorm dumped 0.61" of rain between 7:00-7:30. It was a mild day with a high of 74°, but cooler air behind the storm dropped the temperature to 53° as midnight approached. This was the fifth day in a row with a high in the 70s/80s (and the seventh of the past eight), the longest such streak since Oct. 19-23.
MAY
3 - After a balmy, summer-like day that saw the high temperature reach 85° (the day after a high of 84°), a strong thunderstorm tonight dumped 0.95" of rain in less than an hour - and almost all it rain poured down in about 20 minutes (10:20-10:40). This storm was very localized as just 0.27" of rain fell at Newark Airport, and no rain was measured at LaGuardia or JFK. This deluge came a week after 0.61" fell in a 30-minute period (7:00-7:30).
4 - With a high/low of 69°/60°, today became the earliest date on record with temperatures stuck in the 60s in Central Park. The previous earliest date was 5/11 in 1888.
22 - Rainy conditions (0.90" was measured at Central Park) and winds from out of the northeast produced very cool conditions, with the day's high/low being just 51°/48°. The day's high was 22 degrees below average and was the coolest high temperature on record for 5/22, three degrees cooler than the previous record from 1894.
JUNE
9 - With a high/low of 64°/62°, today was the first date since May 13, 2018 (Mother's Day) to have just a two-degree diurnal variation in temperature.
12 - Today was a Thursday and, in a repeat of last Thursday's conditions, today was sunny, warm and humid with a high/low of 87°/70°.
15 - Today was Father's Day, and for the first time since 2014 its high temperature (64°) was cooler than the high on Mother's Day (77°). And today's high was the coolest on Father's Day on record (previous coolest was 65° in 1970). The majority of Father's Days have low temperatures warmer than this year's high.
Lastly, today had overcast skies, with some light rain during the evening. The 0.03" that fell was the first measurable rain on this date in 10 years.
19 - It was a sweltering day as the high reached 88° and the dew point peaked at 75° (producing a heat index of 96°). The high might have reached 90° if not for a thunder shower that moved through in the early afternoon. And more thunder showers popped up for the rest of the day, amounting to 0.65".
This was the sixth day in a row with measurable rain. In total, 1.11" fell during these days, with more than half of it accounted for by today's rainfall.
23 - It was a hot and steamy day, and the day's scorching high of 96° was the year's first reading in the 90s in Central Park (four weeks later than usual). This reading tied the record for the date. (Meanwhile, Newark Liberty airport had a high of 101° while JFK's high failed to reach 90.) And today's low of 80° was not only the first low in the 80s in five years, it was the earliest on record. (Only two other June dates have had a low in the 80s.)
The day’s dew points were in the very uncomfortable 72°-75° range, producing a mid-afternoon heat index of 106°. (There were four consecutive hours with heat indices in the triple digits.)
Finally, the last time the first reading in the 90s was this hot was in 1996 (that year would have just three days in the 90s).
24 - The day following a record-tying high of 96°, today's high of 99° set a record for the date, and was the hottest reading in Central Park since the summer of 2012 (and the hottest reading in June since 1966). However, because the dew point fell into the 60s by afternoon, the peak heat index was six degrees lower than yesterday (when the dew point was between 72° and 75°).
Meanwhile, Newark's high reached triple digits for the second consecutive day (103°), and JFK Airport's high of 102° came a day after the high was 89°. This change was due to a shift in the wind to the west rather than coming off the ocean.
25 - Today was the third day in a row with a high temperature in the 90s. With readings of 96°-99°-96° (today), the average high of this heat wave was 97°, making this the hottest 3-day heat wave since August 1980. Meanwhile, Newark and JFK had a high in the triple digits for the third and second consecutive day, respectively.
Additionally, this was the third consecutive day with a low in the 80s in Central Park, something that's happened just two other times since 1900 (July 18-20, 2013; July 5-7, 1908). And this year's three lows of 80+ (so far) are the most since 2013.
26 - A back-door cold front moved through just as the day was dawning, providing relief from the torrid 3-day heat wave. Between 10 AM and 5 PM temperatures hovered between 69° and 70°; skies were overcast and there was a stiff breeze out of the east-northeast.
JULY
14 - After a day that was warm (high of 85°) and uncomfortably humid (dew points in the low 70s), a record amount of rain flooded the City during the evening hours. 2.61” was measured (an additional 0.02" fell in the pre-dawn hours), eclipsing the previous record for the date, in 1908, by more than an inch. (The storm was able to produce such copious amounts of rain in such a short period of time because there was little wind to move the storms along.)
Much of the rain fell between 7-8 PM, when a little more than two inches poured into the rain gauge at Central Park. This was New York's greatest daily rainfall since March 23, 2024, when 3.23” was measured. And it was July's biggest daily rainfall in 25 years, when 3.24” fell on 7/26.
The one-hour rainfall of 2.07" was one of the greatest amounts on record for this duration, and was the most since a little more than three inches fell between 9-10 PM on 9/1 in 2021 from remnants of hurricane Ida (13 area residents drowned from flash flooding that resulted).
Finally, the amount of rain that fell today was more than what fell in the months of January (0.61"), February (2.60"), and June (2.46") of this year.