It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer

September 1, 2010 by legitgov

It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer 01 Sep 2010 With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York City. Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in 1966, when more than 1,100 deaths were attributed to heat that repeatedly exceeded 100 degrees...  In this record-breaking season -- defined by the Weather Service as June through August --  the temperature averaged 77.8 degrees.