5 Stunning Photographs From the Super-Concentrated Storm Over NYC
- Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:57am by
Liz Klimas
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Some have compared the storm that occurred yesterday over New York City and in other areas of the northeast as that of Biblical proportions.
The Weather Channel reports that the extremely hot and humid day within the city came to a violent and abrupt end as the storm erupted in the late afternoon. The New York Post reports the temperature recorded at LaGuardia airport before the storm hit was a record-breaking 101 degrees. After the storm, it had dropped to 74 degrees and is expected to continue today in the 80s.
A formal warning by AccuWeather, according to the Daily Mail, came just after 3:30 p.m. and had city officials using a mobile phone emergency warning system to issue information to 8 million people within the five boroughs. It was the first time the program had been used since launching in May 2011.
Characterized by hail, heavy winds and torrential rain, the storm in New York has produced stunning photographs, which led Gizmodo to jokingly wonder if the Lost Ark of the covenant was opened in New York City or if the Ghostbusters were back in town.
Here the photos tell the story.
A photograph taken by Inga Sarda-Sorensen before the storm unleashed its fury. (Photo: Inga Sarda-Sorensen via TweetPic)
This photo was taken by Giants linebacker Dhani Jones from an airplane window. Tweeting the picture, Jones said he had "never seen a storm so concentrated." The photo was treated through Instagram. (Photo: Dhani Jones via Twitter)
Dhani Jones' tweet.
@gyro posted this photo on Twitter saying it's "not every day you see lightning hit the Empire State Building." (Photo: @gyro/Twitter via Daily Mail)
Political commentator Keith Olbermann captured this shot. (Image: Keith Olbermann/Twitter)
Jim Cantore, a Weather Channel meteorologist, said the storms across the northeast Wednesday were relatively normal given the conditions.
“Lots of heat equals lots of storms at this time of year,” Cantore said according to the Weather Channel.
Keith Olbermann later posted this photo on Twitter. This sunset was taken just hours after a torrential storm hit Manhattan. (Photo: Keith Olberman/Twitter)
The New York Post reports 1.7 inches were recorded inside Central Park and an inch of hail stones littered the ground in some areas of the city. One woman in Queens was struck by lightening and was treated at the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Here are some videos posted to YouTube recording some of the weather events yesterday.
Lightning seen from Great South Bay in Babylon, New York:
Rain and hailstones being dropped within the city:
Lightning as seen from Brooklyn facing Manhattan:
A small geyser forming inside an NYC subway station as a result of the storm:
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single stack
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:24am“before the storm hit was a record-breaking 101 degrees. After the storm, it had dropped to 74 degrees and is expected to continue today in the 80s.”
This, boys and girls, illustrates perfectly why the warmists prediction of a “runaway greenhouse” that will broil us alive is nonsensical.
Report Post »Have you ever wondered why the air is cooler after a thunderstorm, or the ocean is cooler after a hurricane? It‘s because thunderstorms and hurricanes are heat engines that transfer heat from the earth’s surface to the upper atmosphere where it radiates into space. This makes a runaway greenhouse impossible and is why the the warmists chicken little panic so amusing.
If the warmists who say study the science would actually, you know, study the science, they would soon realize what fools they’re making of themselves.
Texas Chris
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:02amVery well said.
This is exaclty what the meteorologists and physics professors at Texas A&M said 10 years ago. I guess I missed the healines and media blitz over that, though…
Report Post »Matt
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:44pmRemember, we call it “Climate Change” now, justly because the idea of global warming was so thoroughly debunked.
Report Post »restless 1
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:54pmThis is an April shower in Texas. :)
Report Post »Joseyisthedog
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:06pmWhy no global warming? Carbon! 7 billion peoples body stores carbon, eat carbon, raise carbon hoofed food that eat carbon based grains that all poop carbon based poop that goes back into the earth.
Report Post »No carbon based fuels, no carbon based food that breathes carbon based air that turns into carbon based solids plants that feed carbon based animals that feed carbon based peoples that all poop carbon based poop.
And that leads to more and better carbon based plants! It’s the circle of life! :-)
Warmer is better than colder anyhow.
DisgruntledInClinton
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:33pmWhen I was a child in Michigan and New Jersey, we often went over the 100 degree mark in summer. June, even, and had to go to unairconditioned schools. That was 45+ years ago. It’s the same now. This global warming bs is stupid.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:22pmThey may be making fools of us but they are making themselves RICH. Look at Al Gore.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:45pmIt‘s too bad NYC didn’t get washed into the Atlantic!
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:28pmMost of the Greenies would need to be ABLE to understand the science behind the dogma of their secular religion in order for them to debate us. They cannot, so they attempt to compensate with loud, angry, nonsensical rantings. God is showing them the error of their ways.
Report Post »weisja4
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:54pmnobody predicts a “runaway green house that will broil us alive” the concern is over climate change (note: climate and weather are not the same thing). The predictions of climate change are of a few degrees. This has nothing to do with climate change.
Report Post »do_it_all_again
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:04pmwhere has all the common sense gone? that you need a text to tell you to get in out of the rain?
was in the store one evening, and heard someone in there getting a text telling them about a storm
Report Post »coming, about ten mins. after it had passed !
muffythetuffy
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:06pmWhat is going on in America.
NYC has had rain storms before it summer time and you have lightning storms all the time. The ground is so dry int the tri-state area that the deluge of rain was soaked up like a sponge. Don’t pay any attention to the lies being printed by the Obama news media because they are just trying to alarm people.
Report Post »Texaslockstar
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 2:28amHere in Texas we call that a spring shower. Storms like that are common here.
Report Post »Soul Leister
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 3:32pmIt was origianlly all a world wide tax scheme involving carbon tax and the exchange of tax credits between companies (that may or may not even exist) and even between countries (spread the wealth around… poor countries with no industry could sell their “carbon credits” to countries and businesses that were exceeding their “arbitrary” limits… wealth redistribution pure and simple… a con/scam.
But no one could find the actual data… and then NASA reported temps were rising on other planets (well man is not there polluting/causing global warming on other planets… it all started to come unravelled… “man-made” slipped away (because volcanoes deposit way more carbon and such into the atmosphere daily than man has yet to do and that pesky sun appears more active now than previously… “global warming” had not real data to back it up (especially after the universities involved revealed in emails that they were cherry picking the data… so now the “weather” is called climate change… as the original con men try to reformulate/rebrand their tax/redistribution of wealth scam.
Most recently they reported the US had a higher average temperature this summer than before 1895. Firstly, in 1895 each state had far fewer weather stations to average together (more stations in hotter states than cooler states will skew the data. Secondly, since 1895, the US added hot states like arizona, new mexico, utah, hawaii, a plains state and a hand full of weather stations i
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:24amNature Scrubing the sidewalks, Dirty humans!..
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:14amNew York – BS, New York – BS, New York – BS, New York – BS, New York – BS, New York – BS, New York – BS…
It’s not happening unless it happens in New York… You people make me sick!
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:18pmNo one cares what happens in your little hickville town.
Report Post »avgconservative
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:44pmThank God… My little Hickville town is not full of liberal idiots, drug addicts, MS13, Gangs, rapists, sleeze shows. Nor do I see people sleeping on the sidewalks, pimping, whoring, shooting up, and having sex in the park.
New York sucks and all the communist Northeast Corridor sucks.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:06pmI can confirm that from upstate NY AVG :)
Report Post »Joker50
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:26pmI live in Upstate NY and we all live the way NYC expects us to. WE have little say in State Taxes because of the huge tax base in NYC , all of us suffer. I would say that about 75% of NYS is conservative but the 25% of Liberals run the whole shooting match. I actually live 70 miles north of Manhattan and we have to pay a Tax to support the MTA even though we have no actual public transportation. Years ago they needed more area codes so they stole ours and gave it to Westchester County but four other counties needed to change. NYC should secede from the state and become it’s own state.
Report Post »weisja4
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 6:57pmFirst of all, when was the last time you were in NYC? It is one of the safest large cities in the world.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:11amglenn says he‘s going to buy 30 rock because nbc is doing what they’re doing…….
well, glenn, people in glass houses…….
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:09amwow, i must be on the blaze “blacklist” with all my comments being deleted as they are.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:45pmIn to your life it will creep, if you let it…. paranoia.
canadianlady
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:57pmNo, unfortunately for us, we are forced to see your insipid posts.
layla
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:03amwe don’t decide what they report. we’ve said many times ourselves…it’s winter , it’s snowing, big deal.
Report Post »SShink
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:00amFire and brimstone is next…
Report Post »Sig Sauer Guy
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:59amHmm, I was under the assumption it’s always like that in NYC; dark, dreary and crime ridden!
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:21am…It is. Its’ a bad place to visit, dont waste you money or time folks.
Report Post »Victory Not Vengeance
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:54pmDepends on where and when you go, like most cities. The dog days of summer are no time to visit–high temps often mean high crime–but spring and fall in New York can be delightful.
Try walking the High Line on a cool autumn day, and then tell me with a straight face that you never want to set foot in New York City again.
Report Post »CommunismSurvivor
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 2:09pmI live in NYC. Why don‘t you come over and see for yourself what it’s like instead of spreading your ridiculous, stupid, ignorant lies?
Report Post »AI4GK
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:51amVery impressive, but it looks like a typical summer thunderstorm in Florida. Tuesday we had 3.25 inches; had another storm yesterday. BTW, lightning is not spelled “lightening”. Having been hit by lightning, I made sure I know how to spell lightning. :-) Just a pet peeve of mine.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:09pmAlright now, you can’t just say you were hit by lightning and then not tell the story! What happened?
Report Post »AI4GK
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:10pmJuly 1, 1986 on I-95 near Cocoa, Florida. I was riding my motorcycle to a college class. I was slowing to exit at Fiske Blvd, and happened to be lucky enough to come out from under the overpass just as the bolt struck. It knocked me off my motorcycle, stopped my heart and breathing, and–well, I was dead. A local cardiac nurse stopped, along with a CPR-trained elementary teacher and an Emergency Room doctor. The radio technician for our public safety radios (also a trained paramedic) stopped and called for Rescue on the radio (remember, no cell phones in 1986). Many will disagree with me and call it a stroke of luck or coincidence, but I regard that experience a Miracle.
Report Post »Riggler
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:50amA thunderstorm happens in NYC and that is something that we in the rest of the country should be interested in? I see thunderstorms all the time. Blaze Fail.
Report Post »Crow hunter
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:48amThat was God ******* on liberals
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:46ami wonder why my previous comment was removed?
Report Post »SquareHead
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:52amThis is not an Open forum unless you are a Becktart, and promotes the views of TheBlaze.
Report Post »Otherwise they will screen the posts as to best push their agenda, while appearing to be honestly seeking truth.
Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:07amquestion with boldness…….kinda like what glenn does concerning the (professionally law enforcement determination of forgery in the…….) obama birth certificate.
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:50amLooks like your idiotic posts are making on the site,what’s the problem cymry.
Report Post »tbconrad
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:59amNo one pays attention to trolls here anyway. This isn’t a liberal forum where we care about what liberals think. They’ve already shown they are insane.
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:17amknee jerk is how i would characterize your responses.
If you had read my deleted comments, then you would realize that the last thing i am is liberal. I grew up with liberal elitists and it’s the best cure for it if you have the common sense to escape it.
I began submitting comments after they had deleted my previous ones as a test to see if they would post them and of course they did.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:08pmCould it be that someone on here is reporting them? Pretty sure they don’t screen comments themselves.
Report Post »Crow hunter
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:45amthat storm was God ******* on liberals
Report Post »jeanr
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:33pmSo what do you call it when severe hurricanes pound the South and tornadoes tear up the Midwest?
Report Post »JayMarie
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:08pmJEANR – God is just reminding those in the heartland and the bible belt he’s still here and it still matters.
Report Post »jeanr
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:43pmWow, thanks for the insight. God is really complicated. And you understand him so clearly! He is lucky to have a representative like you speaking for him. You must go to one of them fancy megachurches that I see on the TV.
Report Post »john vincent
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:42amWhere can I file a claim? I think it shoulod be called ‘father nature….’
Report Post »Machtyn
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:37amToo bad the camera wasn’t a high speed variety.
Sure this storm may not be all that unusual… except that it was highly concentrated. That’s what makes this a story, not that there was a storm in NYC.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:36amI was in New York. It rained really hard for an hour. As long as you had the sense to stay indoors it was no big deal. I was glad. It’s been 95 degrees out for a week now and getting more humid every day.
Report Post »RedManBlueState
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 2:00pmI have the sense to stay out of New York.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:33am…
Report Post »In my opinion, God hates New York.
New York is Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into one.
4xeverything
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:20pmWell, in my opinion, I don’t believe God hates anything or anyone but, I can’t say that I care too much for New York. I would say that maybe New York=Gamorrah and San Francisco=Sodom if you want to liken today to the Bible.
Report Post »Donttredonme
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 8:30pmLuckily God usually smites the south and bible belt with natural disasters that kill people
Report Post »GoodFig
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:18pmExcuse me? God hates New York? Your opinion speaks volumes about your character. I happen to live in the Southern Tier/Western part of New York and I’m Christian. I am so sick and tired of everyone outside of New York lumping our entire state into one stinking city! There are beautiful parts of New York. I live in farm country which includes wonderful grape vineyards stretching for miles and miles. In the fall the smell of ripe grapes permeates the air and it’s a sweet savor that I know reaches the nostrils of God. I was in New York City one time in my life and swore I’d never return. I haven’t returned. As far as I‘m concerned New York City should be made it’s own state. They can keep the name New York. We’ll take Old York. At least the rest of us New Yorkers who don’t live in the rotten apple might have a chance at building our own reputation with the rest of this country!
Report Post »Please folks…when you‘re dissing New York City don’t include our entire state! We don’t deserve it.
Watcher1952
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:32amCYMRY Why not look it up instead of wondering ??? You may educate yourself ! BTW AMERICA will not fail, but it sounds like you may be wanting that……
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:02amtwo other things.
the form of question i used in the deleted comment is called rhetoric.
there are respected evangelical leaders/pastors that believe that america isn’t mentioned in end times prophecy because of it being eliminated/greatly reduced.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:30amIf they manufacture enough storms and strange weather patterns they may have us all believing in global warming…isn’t that the idea. Al Gore probably told his pal Keith O to get out there, take pictures and post them everywhere possible….too bad the same ones they fooled before are still the only ones buying their money making fraud.
Report Post »csbaby
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:14amNormal weather happening in not normal NYC. They are so full of themselves. Think Joplin all you new yorkers.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:31amWhen events happen to New Yorkers, they think they are the only ones who have ever experienced it. You’re right CSBABY, New Yorkers ARE full of themselves. Remember the snow storms they had, like no one else in the country had ever had a snow storm?
Report Post »Come on, New Yorkers, act like you’ve been there before.
CK1911
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:11amhey, where are the frogs and locusts? didn’t anyone get pictures of those?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:09amGoing to take more than a concentrated storm to clean the likes of NYC I’m afraid….
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:08amReally? OMG. Boy when something happens in NYC it is huuuuge news. Come on, my state has lots of thunderstorms and lightening too. This is NOT news. We don’t need NYC to be any more sensationalized by the media than it already is.
Report Post »Brad Wesselmann
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:23amI would have chosen the word notorialized instead…yeah, I just made that up but the word notorious is about the only word that fits that place and time.
Report Post »SCARY313568
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:07amToo bad somebody wasn’t behind Olbermann to push that bigmouth loser off of the building sending him to an appropriate demise.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:35amHehehehehe! Could have blamed a tornadick wind that swept that piece of dog excrement away!!
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:04amYep. Dogs living with cats and stuff !
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:04amHah!
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