Highest temperature in NYC on July 26?

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Market context

The event is whether LaGuardia Airport’s recorded high on 26 July 2026 lands in the temperature band that the market settles on, using Wunderground’s daily history page for KLGA as the reference source. With the crowd-implied probability still at 0% for **YES**, the market is pricing in a very low chance that the day’s actual peak will fall into the specified range, even though late-summer New York highs commonly cluster around the mid-80s Fahrenheit in warm spells.[1]

For context, comparable NYC heat-market cases usually turn on the difference between a broadly warm day and a true heat peak at the airport, where a degree or two can shift settlement from one band to another. Recent market pricing on the same event showed **84–85°F** as the lead outcome at 41%, with **82–83°F** next at 36%, which suggests traders were leaning towards a warm but not extreme peak rather than an outlier hot reading.[1] That makes the current zero per cent YES quote look like a very compressed view of the probability distribution, not a statement that hot weather is impossible.

The main catalysts are straightforward: the actual LaGuardia observation, any late-day convection or sea-breeze effects that cap the maximum, and whether the airport’s official reporting aligns cleanly with the Wunderground history record used for settlement. From an access and compliance angle, this sort of weather market sits outside the German **GlüStV** regime if a user is geoblocked from Germany, but the broader US **CFTC** position remains relevant because prediction markets can attract scrutiny where event-contract characteristics overlap with derivatives questions. “No-KYC up to $1,500” means a user can typically access the market and trade small amounts with lighter identity checks, but it does not remove jurisdictional restrictions, withdrawal checks, or any platform-level limits tied to country, size, or source-of-funds rules.

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