Balmy temps on Election Day make for record highs

Election Day brought the somesthesia to near-record highs successful and astir New York City, meteorologists said Tuesday.

The balmy upwind could acceptable a record not seen for a statesmanlike predetermination time since 1936, making it a spectacularly sunny time for lasting extracurricular connected a voting enactment successful the New York area.

As of astir 3 p.m. temperatures had reached a precocious of 72 degrees successful Central Park, making Tuesday a necktie for second-warmest statesmanlike predetermination time ever, on with 1888, erstwhile the mercury besides deed 72, National Weather Service meteorologist James Connolly told the Daily News.

“The mean precocious for Central Park successful New York City is 58, and the mean debased is 45,” helium said of temperatures wide for this clip of year. The grounds for the day of Nov. 5 was acceptable successful 1961, erstwhile the precocious deed 78 degrees, helium added.

Such numbers are much emblematic for precocious September oregon precocious May, noted AccuWeather elder meteorologist Dave Dombek.

Dry conditions are besides astir apt boosting temperatures by a fewer degrees, Dombek told the Daily News. Normally the sun’s vigor is divided betwixt evaporating moisture and warming the atmosphere, but the deficiency of humidity means that each that vigor is heating the air.

“The information that it is truthful adust is precise apt allowing the temperatures to possibly get two, three, 4 degrees higher than what it would usually beryllium getting to conscionable due to the fact that the crushed is truthful dry,” Bombek said.

Higher-than-normal temperatures reigned passim the tristate area, from New Jersey to Connecticut.

“It’s lukewarm everywhere,” Connolly said. “It’s presently 74 degrees successful Newark which is 5 degrees disconnected of their grounds precocious to date. So it’s good supra mean everyplace successful the region.”

Washington D.C. was going to beryllium 75 degrees connected Election Day, astir 13 degrees supra average, the Washington Post reported. Elsewhere successful the nation, akin conditions were mostly holding sway successful battleground states.

Temperatures are forecast to summation arsenic the week wears on, with grounds highs apt crossed the region, hitting the precocious 70s and perchance the debased 80s.

“It’s warm,” Connolly said. “That’s the takeaway.”

With News Wire Services