Record High September Weather in Hudson Valley This Week
Many Hudson Valley locals are increasingly becoming more aware of the unusual heat that has become a new hallmark for September, which traditionally has been a relatively cool month for this region. “I’ve noticed through the past several years that the month of September has featured warmer than normal weather,” Hyde Park resident and weather enthusiast, Peter Colaizzo states. “It’s almost like an extension of summer, so yeah this is becoming the ‘new normal’ for me.”
Other residents such as Poughkeepsie resident and Arlington High School senior Theresa Mark theorized that “the warm weather is probably from the warm air pressure of the past recent hurricanes coming up from the South.”
She later went on to speak about her chemistry teacher, who is not a believer in global climate change. “My Chemistry teacher doesn’t believe in the fact that global warming is the cause of the warm weather,” Mark states. “ More so that ‘global weirding’ of temperatures and various weather fluctuations is causing warm autumn weather.”
Mark believes that is has been a topic of conversation recently and agrees with how other residents are unnerved by the abnormally warmer weather. “I am ready to transition to my fall clothes.” Mark states.
“With weather such as this one,” she adds. “ You are always going to have people that normalize the strange weather and some that use factual support to support how this weather is one of the causes of climate change.”
Even though Mark has seen the normalization of this warm weather is common she is hopeful that people will sooner or later see the intense effects of climate change.
Weather in the Poughkeepsie region hit record highs Monday with high hitting 91 degrees Fahrenheit compared to the past record of 89 degrees Fahrenheit in 1970. This past Tuesday it was a high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit with a low of 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Residents have been quite surprised by the warmer weather, as some were expecting the early start of cooler autumn air but were met with warmer and humid air more typical for the summer time.
This past Tuesday it was a high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit with a low of 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Certain Poughkeepsie and Hyde Park have mixed thoughts when it comes to this unexpectedly warm autumn weather.
