An unrelenting series of summer heatwaves has smashed single-day temperature records across the South and South-West this summer, breaking long-standing records in the country’s major cities as hot conditions “dangerously ” persist this week from California to Florida.
broken the latest in a string of daily temperature records amid a historic heat wave in the Southwest, with the temperature at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix reaching 117 degrees, the hottest day since 2017 and the the city’s fourth hottest day on record.
phoenix19th day in a rowwith temperatures reaching a daily record high of 116 degrees, while Death Valley broke its daily record high of 128 degrees.
phoenix set a record for most days in a row with highs of 110 degrees or higher, achieving the mark ofovercome its daily record high, when the temperature reached 106 degrees, breaking its previous daily record by three degrees.
Salt Lake CityTwo major Texas cities tied their daily high temperature records Saint Anthony hitting 105 degrees and Waco reaching 104, while Fort WorthTexas, broke its daily record with 106 and phoenix tied his all-time high at 116.
phoenix set its latest daily record high temperature at 114 degrees, following a string of daily record highs in the city, while Baton RougeLouisiana, tied its daily record at 99 degrees.
tied up a record daily high of 114 degrees, tying a record set in 2020.
phoenixFort LauderdaleFlorida tied its daily high at 96 degrees.
straight quarter day and for the fifth time in just six days, at 96 degrees.
Miami broke its daily temperature record for alTucsonArizona, set a record daily high, with thermometers reading 110 degrees, breaking the city’s previous record by one degree.
daily record high in two degrees, while VancouverWashington and EugeneOregon also set daily highs of 96 and 99 degrees, respectively, and The StepTexas, broken a daily record high of a whopping 107 degrees.
PortlandOregon, reached a sweltering 98 degrees, breaking that of the citydaily record High again with thermometers reading 97 degrees: July 4 was the planet’s hottest day in nearly 125,000 years, at 62.92 degrees, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.
cover up establish acover up broke its daily record (99 degrees), while StocktonCalifornia, broke its record by one degree (109) and Sacramento tied his record (109).
Several cities across the country tied their daily record highs, incl cover up (96 degrees), Body of ChristTexas (98) and BillingsMontana (99).
register at 95 degrees, while Fort WorthTexas, narrowly hit a daily record high of 103 degrees and new orleans broken another daily record of 100 degrees, the first time the temperature has reached triple digits at the city’s airport in seven years.
Miami set its second consecutive daily temperaturesecond hottest day on record, while Miami broke another daily record with a temperature of 95 degrees.
RoswellNew Mexico, set another daily maximum at 112 degrees, that of the cityAs the heat wave spread eastward, new orleans set a new daily record high of 98 degrees, surpassing its previous high of 97 set last year.
tied up its daily heat record with a high of 110 degrees set in 1990, while Saint Anthony for the second day in a row he tied his daily record (102).
RoswellNew MexicoSaint Anthony tied its daily heat record at 102 degrees, while Laredo set another daily record (109).
Corpus Christi, McAllen i Laredo continued to break daily high temperature records (103, 105 and 114 degrees, respectively).
tied up a daily record high temperature of 94 degrees, while Saint PaulMinnesota, broke a daily record (91), body of christ, Texas, broke a daily record (100) and Houston tied its daily record (99).
The Florida KeysLaredo i McAllen broke daily records again, at 114 and 106 degrees, respectively, while Austin set another daily record (106) and Midland broke his daily record (109).
in accordance with the National Meteorological Service i Laredo tied up an all-time record temperature for the city (115)—Laredo broke another daily record on June 13 (111 degrees).
Records were broken across Texas during a heat wave, with new daily highs set Saint Anthony (105 degrees) and McAllen (107), while Austin tied its previous daily record of 106 degrees,broken a record daily heat (95 degrees).
Miami broke a daily record high of 95 degrees, breaking a record that had stood for 12 years, while Fort LauderdaleCincinnati it broke a daily record high that had been set in 1951 (93 degrees).
Hartford also saw a daily record (94 degrees), beating a record set in 1961 by 3 degrees and Philadelphia narrowly broke a 23-year record (95 degrees), while temperature records also fell in the Midwest, including in Saint Louis (93 degrees) and Detroit (90 degrees).
buffalo set daily temperature records on consecutive days to start the month (90 degrees), while SyracuseNew York, set a record at 91 degrees, and FargoNorth Dakota, set a daily record at 97 degrees.
An excessive heat advisory is in effect for Arizona, southern California and parts of Nevada, with heat advisories in effect for the south and southwest, bringing “dangerous heat conditions” and a heat index: How hot out when humidity is taken into account. —in the 120s and 130s in some areas. Forecasters urged residents to stay hydrated in air-conditioned rooms, avoid strenuous outdoor activities and take “extra precautions” outside.
More daily heat records. Forecasters warn cities across the Southwest, including Phoenix, which is in the midst of an unrelenting multi-week heat wave, could continue to set records this week, while heat advisories could continue to topple daily records since California to Florida.
Forecasters hope the early-season heatwaves are a sign of things to come as a weather phenomenon called El Niño develops, bringing warmer air north, and as scientists warn, the effects of change climate change from greenhouse gas emissions will continue to raise temperatures. , prolong drought conditions and make wildfires more frequent and severe. About 1,500 US cities and towns broke daily heat records during a 30-day period ending last September as heat waves spread across the US, as well as the UK and southern ‘Europe. So far this year, a heat wave in China slashed single-day records in China, while in the UK, forecasters warn of the hottest year on record
A scorcher 119 degrees high in Big Bend National Park in west Texas, on June 23 it reached a degree of tying an all-time temperature record for the state of Texas, which has stood since 1936.