[Da Coyote]

OK, we know the standard question: "Record over what period?" No period mentioned. If really challenged, it'll be from the 1940s on - because that's the only time period that has data even somewhat comparable to the present. As usual, the media demonstrates why they are only journalists and not real science types. Oh, and the folks providing them that drivel are not science types either - they haven't gotten a climate change prediction right yet, and they never will.

[Venkman]

The link in The Hill article goes to an X post from

Jeff Berardelli
@WeatherProf
All-time record set at Tampa-Ruskin yesterday at 100! 100 beats 99 in 1981 and also beats the August record of 97. Period of record in Ruskin goes back to 1976.

All the way back to 1976! lol