Scorching Summer Setting Records – Dale’s Daily Data

It’s been brutally hot across the summer the past few weeks and each day cities across the country have set new temperature records.  Some cities have set new all-time high temperature records.

Six cities, four of them in Texas, have set all-time record high temperatures this year.

12 cities have set monthly high records in the months of May, June or July.

Temperatures in the plains states and in the southwest have routinely been in the 100’s this summer.

Even Resolute, Canada – one of Canada’s northern-most communities on the edge of the Arctic Circle
set an all-time record high this month.  Temperatures in July usually are in the upper 40’s…..on July 9^th Resolute reached 66.

Savannah, Georgia has endured 56 straight days of temperatures in the 90’s.  Dallas, Texas has reach 100 or more for 18 straight days.

It’s been 100 or more for 22 days in a row in Tyler, Texas.

Since the weather service began keeping records every state in the country including Alaska has had high temperatures of 100 or more.  Strangely, both Alaska and Hawaii, the country’s two newest states each have an all-time record of 100.  The ocean breezes keep Hawaii pretty comfortable.

Death Valley, California has the country’s all-time high temperature of 134 – the hottest temperature in the western hemisphere.  Average high temperatures in Death Valley during July reach 115 but often they reach 125.

The world’s all-time high is 136 recorded in El Azizia, Libya.

SOURCE: weather.com