Oh. We noticed.
But then, it was in the mid-hundreds in the Fifth century in the US but nobody was here to write it down.
The prior record was 75 yrs ago? No trend there. Chicago had some heat this summer but it wasn’t bad. We have had plenty of rain for all that corn, too.
The summer has been amazingly cool here in San Jose.
I live in the Houston area and the heat was only really bad for about two weeks. The real problem has been the lack of rain ALL YEAR LONG.
Until the past week or two, I can’t remember a cooler summer in southern California.
It felt quite a bit cooler the other day so I decided I would go out for a long bike ride. When I checked the temp it was only 97.
2nd? Who cares then?
NW Washington, coldest June and July on record and August wasn’t exactly balmy, either. This week we are having nice weather.
When I was a child growing up in Chico, CA, I recall summer days of 115+ in the shade as being normal. I haven’t seen summer temps that high on a regular basis for years.
Man made drought and man made heat....barry hates the productive Texas and Perry...so with his childish mentality he uses this to attack Texas.
Just wait! Only 6000 years ago, Nebraska was so dry and hot that there were SAND DUNES deposited there!
Oh. We noticed.
Obligatory D@mn Warmal Globing remark!!
Signed,
Sweaty Texan
Texas has warmest summer on record of any stateFires will do that.
Survived the heat wave of 1980 working outdoors, and survived the heat wave of 2011 working outdoors.
You deal with what you get. If you live in Texas, you know to expect heat. If you don’t, you are one of the multitude of recent transplants who come here, see the can do attitude of the people, say “Man, They got it going on down here!”, and then revert to standard whining when it isn’t Kalifornia pretty.
NOAA is a valuable site, but the .gov is inherently tainted as of late.
As an erstwhile meteorologist I would vigorously stress that which is unsaid in our headline driven media world. WEATHER is nothing but a series of extremes!
There is no such creature as NORMAL weather, NORMAL temperature, NORMAL rainfall. Only averages.
The rain will return, and when it does, it will probably be too much, too soon. That’s the way it is. We will deal with it.
Our last week of August here in mid Tennessee was 15-20 degrees above average.
Then tropical storm Lee brought three days of rain and very cool temps. Now were are 15-20 degrees below normal.
It hasn’t hit 70 in five days.
It hasn’t rained in Seattle all week, and the temps are in the 80s. I think we have finally hit SUMMER!
This summer was atypically cool here in the front range of the Rockies.
Nothing the NOAA says can be taken at face value.
They’ve fudged their data before.