New York's climate is humid continental on the Northeast Atlantic edge, so it gets the full menu: thundery, sticky July afternoons, crisp October weekends, January cold snaps that send the wind chill negative, and the occasional March nor'easter that buries Brooklyn for a day. The Atlantic moderates the extremes a touch compared to the interior Northeast, but late-summer tropical storms can still arrive with enough rain to flood subway stations. Spring and fall are reliably pleasant; the rest of the year is more of an adventure.