Hottest Month on Record for DC

[xironman]

1.4 over the previous, huge for a summertime departure. Nice write-up LWX http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... hlight=off

...WASHINGTON DC JULY 2011...

HOTTEST JULY AND HOTTEST MONTH EVER...MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMP OF 84.5F
SMASHED PREVIOUS HOTTEST JULY/MONTH AVERAGE OF 83.1F SET JULY 2010
AND JULY 1993.

TWO NEW DAILY RECORD HIGHS WERE SET...102F ON THE 23RD AND 104F ON
THE 30TH.

A READING OF 104F ON JULY 29TH TIED FOR 5TH ALL TIME DAILY HOTTEST
TEMPERATURE EVER. THE HOTTEST DAY IN WASHINGTON SINCE 1872 IS 106F
RECORDED TWICE...JULY 20TH 1930 AND AUGUST 6TH 1918.

MOST NUMBER OF DAYS IN JULY...OR FOR ANY MONTH...WHEN DAILY TEMPS
HIT 90F OR BETTER...25. PREVIOUS HIGHEST TALLY OF DAYS HITTING 90F
OR BETTER...24...IN JULY 1987 AND JULY 1993.

HOTTEST MONTHLY AVERAGE MAX TEMP FOR ANY MONTH INCLUDING JULY...OF
93.6F BEAT THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 92.8F SET IN JULY 1999.

HIGHEST MONTHLY AVERAGE MIN TEMP FOR ANY MONTH INCLUDING JULY OF
75.4F BEAT THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 73.9F SET LAST JULY 2010.

A NEW RECORD WAS SET FOR THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WHERE THE
TEMPERATURE DID NOT DROP BELOW 80F...4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS FROM THE
21ST THROUGH THE 25TH.

JULY 2011 FEATURED THE MOST NUMBER OF DAYS FOR ANY MONTH WHERE THE
TEMPERATURES STAYED AT OR ABOVE 80F...SEVEN.

[wall_cloud]

we set the record by ~0.5 degrees in June for the warmest on record at San Angelo. Then in July we trumped that by beating that record by a full degree. One week into August are we are 2 degrees above the July pace. I'm ready for anything but hot and dry.

[lester]

We had the hottest summer ever last year iirc..

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