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It was the summer to remember in the east.

Birmingham went a month with above 90 temps.

Dallas went above 100 for weeks.

Heck, even parts of the LA area were in an excessive heat watch at one time.

Soo..who hasn't had an extremely epic summer?

Soo... who has NOT had a record breaking mild year...

-Warmest winter ever
-Every day in March, except 1, was above freezing
-Second warmest March
-First April ever without a single freeze
-Warmest April ever
-Second warmest spring ever
-We had our warmest May day ever as well as the highest temperature ever recorded during that month
-On pace for the second warmest summer ever
-Second warmest July
-We had our warmest September day on the 1st. 2 days later(Today), we tyed the all-time September high temperature.
-10 consecutive months above average and counting...

Welcome to global warming...

SE Florida had the warmest summer ever

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mfl/news ... rticle.pdf

We've only hit 100 degrees once in Amarillo for 2010. Some surrounding areas weren't as fortunate. We had 8" of rain in July and the increased soil moisture and evaporation helped keep temps down a shade. I'll take it.

HURAKAN wrote:SE Florida had the warmest summer ever

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/mfl/news ... rticle.pdf

Quite amazing after all the record low temps and prolonged periods of below average temps this past winter.

Houston had its hottest month EVER in August.


CLIMATE...
THE PERSISTENT COMBINATION OF STRONG UPPER RIDGING AND DEEP
TROPICAL MOISTURE RESULTED IN A RECORD SETTING HOT AND HUMID MONTH
ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. AUGUST 2010 WILL RANK AS THE WARMEST OR
SECOND WARMEST MONTH OF ANY MONTH ON RECORD FOR ALL THE MAJOR
CLIMATE SITES. WHILE HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE ELEVATED...OVERNIGHT
LOW TEMPERATURES WERE WELL ABOVE NORMAL DUE TO THE HIGH DEWPOINTS.
HEAT INDICES WERE HIGHER THIS MONTH THAN SEEN IN RECENT
SUMMERS...WHICH IS WHY THERE WERE SO MANY HEAT ADVISORIES.

ALL-TIME WARMEST MONTHS ON RECORD:

COLLEGE STATION (RECORDS SINCE 1901):
1. AUG 2010/JUL 2009 - 89.1 DEGREES
2. JUL 1998 - 88.6 DEGREES
3. AUG 1951 - 88.5 DEGREES
4. JUL 1996 - 87.9 DEGREES
5. AUG 1962/JUL 1925 - 87.7 DEGREES

HOUSTON (IAH) (RECORDS SINCE 1889):
1. AUG 2010 - 87.9 DEGREES
2. JUL 1980/AUG 1962 - 87.5 DEGREES
3. JUL 2009 - 87.4 DEGREES
4. AUG 1951 - 87.1 DEGREES
5. AUG 1999/AUG 1902 - 86.8 DEGREES

HOUSTON/HOBBY (RECORDS SINCE 1931):
1. AUG 2010 - 87.0 DEGREES
2. JUL 2009 - 86.7 DEGREES
3. JUL 1998 - 86.6 DEGREES
4. AUG 1999 - 86.4 DEGREES
5. AUG 2009/JUN 1998 - 86.2 DEGREES

GALVESTON (RECORDS SINCE 1871):
1. JUL 1875 - 87.4 DEGREES
2. AUG 2010 - 87.3 DEGREES
3. AUG 2005/JUL 1996 - 86.6 DEGREES
4. AUG 2009 - 86.5 DEGREES
5. JUL 1876 - 86.3 DEGREES

WARMEST MAY THROUGH AUGUST PERIODS FOR HOUSTON (SINCE 1889):
1. 2009 - 84.4 DEGREES
2. 1980 - 84.1 DEGREES
3. 2010 - 84.0 DEGREES
4. 1998 - 83.8 DEGREES
5. 1962 - 83.7 DEGREES

NUMBER OF DAILY RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES TIED OR BROKEN
THIS MONTH:
COLLEGE STATION - 10 (HIGHEST - 81 DEGREES ON THE 11TH)
HOUSTON/IAH - 4 (HIGHEST - 83 DEGREES ON THE 12TH AND 18TH)
HOUSTON/HOBBY - 11 (HIGHEST - 81 DEGREES ON THE 18TH)
GALVESTON - 7 (HIGHEST - 85 DEGREES ON THE 30TH)

ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES TIED:
HOUSTON/IAH - 83 DEGREES ON THE 12TH AND 18TH (LAST SET JUL 30 2009)
GALVESTON - 85 DEGREES ON THE 30TH (LAST SET JUL 20 2005)

HEAT INDEX IN HOUSTON:
DAYS WITH HEAT INDEX 105 DEGREES OR HIGHER - 20 DAYS
DAYS WITH HEAT INDEX 108 DEGREES OR HIGHER - 8 DAYS
MAXIMUM HEAT INDEX - 114 DEGREES ON THE 14TH (HIGHEST SINCE AT
LEAST 2000)


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Our California friends, at least those I hear from, have had a cool summer compared to normal. Too bad they didn't share it with us here in Texas!

vbhoutex wrote:Our California friends, at least those I hear from, have had a cool summer compared to normal. Too bad they didn't share it with us here in Texas!

I live in Sacramento, and from what I can tell, this has been the coolest season for us in decades!!! Usually there are weekly stretches of over 100 degrees. I think I only remember 2 or 3 days of over 100 this summer. It's been really strange...There must be a reason for it, I just don't know what it is.

To hear it told, you'd think that we had scorcher her in Houston this summer.

This is my tenth summer here and, truth be told, it was just an average year here. My thermometer didn't even tip 100 where i live.

1980 was a big year:

* HOUSTON REPORTED 32 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES AT OR EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES
* BEGINNING ON JULY 6...HOUSTON ENDURED 14 CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS
* HOUSTON'S ALL-TIME HIGH RECORD OF 107 DEGREES OCCURRED ON AUGUST 23 1980
* COLLEGE STATION REPORTED 43 DAYS IN WHICH THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED OR EXCEEDED 100 DEGREES

That was before my time. We hit 109 in 2000.

There were a lot of record high average temps here this year. High nightly humidity did insulate us somewhat raising the daily lows that so affected our averages for July & August.

Not a hot year here - leastwise, I have heard no complaints about the heat by other locals.

This summer was actually cooler than most of the recent summers here, although still slightly above average.

Nothing like the blistering summers of 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 (which was the hottest summer on record) and a couple of other pretty hot ones over the last decade.

Tucson had its second hottest Summer of record yet amazingly no record high temperatures were set. September was the second hottest by 0.1 degree and had 16 days of 100F highs tying the record. The 104F on the 30th was the hottest for so late in the year and the 103F on October was the same and also an all time for October. The monsoon ranged from pathetically dry west of Tucson to joyously wet east of Tucson.

Steve

Meh

We didn't have much of a summer here. (okay, okay... I know I'm not in the US)

We have a long, chilly, and snowy winter. It warmed up for a couple of weeks to near average, and now we're back to chilly. Morning lows are below freezing and we're doing well to break 50F during the afternoon. I miss summer...

not too hot here either, in the summer, but lots of rain!

While it was hot, it didn't seem nearly as hot as 2009. I'm not going by statistics though, just by what it seemed like to me.

it was 90 here today. summer is slow to leave but that may have been our last 90 of the season since a cool front is approaching.