توقع: Highest temperature in NYC on August 7?

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Market context

August 7’s New York City temperature market is a LaGuardia-based reading, and the key number is the highest Fahrenheit value recorded in Weather Underground’s Daily Observations table, not the headline day-high box. That matters because the crowd-implied 0% YES price suggests traders are either pricing in an outcome far below the listed ranges or treating the contract as effectively settled against a level that was not going to be reached; for context, Weather Underground’s history page for the date shows an 82°F report at JFK Airport, while nearby station data from KOKX showed a 91°F maximum for the day, underscoring how site and station choice can move the result materially.[4][1]

The market has recently been trading against a hot midsummer baseline rather than an extreme heat spike. Forecast-facing pages on 6–7 August pointed to New York highs around 87–90°F, with AccuWeather showing 87°F for 8 August after 84°F on the 7th, while the Polymarket event page itself cited models clustering around 90–91°F and assigned only a small tail to 96°F-plus outcomes.[2][3][13] The main watchpoint is whether the Daily Observations table for KLGA was ever updated after the first overnight publish, because the market rules say revisions inside the event window count until the first datapoint for the following date appears; once that next-day observation is posted, later edits do not count.[3][8]

For traders, the practical catalysts were the late-afternoon peak timing, any brief thunderstorm or sea-breeze suppression, and the exact timestamp at which Weather Underground posted the first 8 August observation. In a city where airport stations can diverge sharply from Central Park and other borough readings, the outcome often turns on station-specific quirks rather than the broader metro feel.[6][17] That is why the settlement source, KLGA’s daily table, is more important than the general NYC forecast story, and why a low YES price can persist even when the city feels hot on the day.[8][3]

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Methodology

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FAQ

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