RECORD HIGHS AUGUST 2009

[tropicana]

Record Highs Sat Aug 1 2009

Portland OR 95F **8th cons. day at or over 90F, tied Aug 12-19 1967 for longest such streak**
Brownsville TX 98F tied 2001
Burns OR 99F
Spokane WA 101F tied 1971
San Antonio TX 102F tied 1893 (also 36th 100 degree day of year, ties 1998)
Medford OR 103F tied 1993
McAllen TX 106F
Lewiston ID 106F tied 1971
Pendleton OR 108F
Walla Walla WA 108F

Record High Minimums Sat Aug 1 2009

Medford OR 69F
VIctoria TX 80F

-justin-

[tropicana]

Record Highs Sun Aug 2 2009

Seattle WA 89F tied 1977
Olympia WA 92F
Pendleton OR 100F tied 1961
Yakima WA 100F tied 1961
McAllen TX 104F
Phoenix AZ 113F tied 1918

IN CANADA

Kamloops BC 37.4C 99F

Record High Mins Sun Aug 2/09

Medford OR 71F tied 1977
Austin Mabry TX 80F
West Palm Beach FL 81F tied 2006
Ft Lauderdale FL 83F tied 2006



-justin-

[jinftl]

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
430 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2009


...RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE TIED AT FORT LAUDERDALE...

SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND, THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT THE HOLLYWOOD/FORT
LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 83 DEGREES. THIS TIED THE
PREVIOUS HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 83 DEGREES LAST SET ON THAT
DATE IN 2006.

[tropicana]

Record Highs Mon Aug 3 2009

Delta UT 101F tied 2000
Phoenix AZ 114F tied 1975

Record High Mins Mon Aug 3 2009

Barrow AK 46F
Salt Lake City UT 74F tied 2000
Tucson AZ 81F
Ft Lauderdale FL 83F
Key West FL 85F
Thermal CA 87F tied 1952
Phoenix AZ 89F tied 2008


-justin-

[somethingfunny]

No record high for McAllen yesterday?

[tropicana]

I know, i dont think McAllen has one for Monday, but for Tuesday yes...

Record Highs Tue Aug 4 2009

McAllen TX 104F
Safford AZ 106F tied 1993


Record High Mins Tue Aug 4 2009

Salt Lake City UT 71F tied 2000
Cottonwood AZ 74F tied 1994
Tooele UT 75F
Ft Lauderdale FL 83F
Imperial CA 85F tied 2007
Phoeniz AZ 90F

-justin-

[bob rulz]

Ugh, I hate these warm nights. They're killing me.

[vbhoutex]

Ugh, I hate these warm nights. They're killing me.

Warm? That would seem cool to me these days. Our lows have been running in the 78ºf-83ºf range for over a month. Do you not have air conditioning?(a necessity in SE TX)

[jinftl]

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI, FL
958 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2009


...RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES BROKEN AT FORT LAUDERDALE...

MONDAY AUGUST 3RD, THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT THE FORT
LAUDERDALE-HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 83 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE
PREVIOUS HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 82 DEGREES LAST SET ON THAT
DATE IN 1993.

TUESDAY AUGUST 4TH, THE LOW TEMPERATURE AT THE FORT
LAUDERDALE-HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 83 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE
PREVIOUS HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 82 DEGREES LAST SET ON THAT
DATE IN 1993.

[tropicana]

Record Highs Wed Aug 5 2009

Juneau AK 80F
Delta UT 103F tied 2001
McAllen TX 105F ( we shoulda known)
Tucson AZ 108F tied 1995


Record High Mins Wed Aug 5 2009

Winslow AZ 75F
Las Vegas NV 85F tied 2007
Phoenix AZ 95F

-justin-

[bob rulz]

Ugh, I hate these warm nights. They're killing me.

Warm? That would seem cool to me these days. Our lows have been running in the 78ºf-83ºf range for over a month. Do you not have air conditioning?(a necessity in SE TX)

No, a lot of the old houses around here have no air conditioning. I have to keep a fan running on me all night. We can have a swamp cooler running in the day but it only reaches the immediate rooms.

I'll admit though that this summer hasn't been as bad as many previous ones. 2007 and 2003 were particularly miserable.

[bob rulz]

Looks like we could be seeing a huge reversal of fortunes here tomorrow...we could threaten some record lows this weekend. And yet today might've tied yet another record high low.

[vbhoutex]

Looks like we could be seeing a huge reversal of fortunes here tomorrow...we could threaten some record lows this weekend. And yet today might've tied yet another record high low.

Starting to feel like you're on a roller coaster weather wise?

[tropicana]

Record Highs Thu Aug 6 2009

San Antonio TX 103F tied 1964
Austin Mabry TX 105F tied 1923

IN CANADA

Alert Nunavut (in Canada's far north) 17.2C 63F

Record High Minimums Thu Aug 6 2009

Winslow AZ 70F tied 1952
Cottonwood AZ 77F
Tucson AZ 84F **3rd warmest August low last set Aug 7 2003**
Phoenix AZ 91F

-justin-

[bob rulz]

Looks like we could be seeing a huge reversal of fortunes here tomorrow...we could threaten some record lows this weekend. And yet today might've tied yet another record high low.

Starting to feel like you're on a roller coaster weather wise?

Yeah I suppose. I don't think I remember such a huge cold front coming into the state this early in July, it's pretty crazy. Meanwhile the cold front moved in early enough to prevent us from setting another record high low.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Thought this article would fit in here.....

'Balmy' Eureka broke heat record in July
Last Updated: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Temperatures soared to record highs in the High Arctic in July, stunning Environment Canada's senior climatologist.

David Phillips said a heat record was broken last month in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. A similar record was almost broken further up the island at Alert, Canada's most northerly place.

"Boy, there are some real head-shakers. I look at Eureka — I mean, it is probably almost as far north as you can get — and we saw temperatures of, you know, up to almost 21 C," Phillips told CBC News.

"It's been just absolutely balmy."

Phillips said Eureka went up to 20.9 C on July 14, breaking the record of 20.7 C from July 23, 2007. Environment Canada started recording weather at the Eureka weather station in 1947.

Normal high around 8 C
He added that Eureka has seen temperatures between 17 C and 20 C on several days in July.

"At this time of the year, you should see highs of about perhaps maybe closer to about 8 C, and these are temperatures that are, you know, 12 to 15 degrees warmer than normal," he said.

Temperatures in Alert went up to 18.6 C in late July. Phillips said that did not break the July record set in 1956, when the mercury hit 20 C there.

Greg Henry, a researcher who has studied plants on the tundra on eastern Ellesmere Island for almost 30 years, said he has noticed major weather changes in the area since the mid-1990s.

Henry, a geography professor at the University of British Columbia, said he's noticed rainstorms instead of snowstorms in the middle of July. His team recently worked outside in T-shirts and shorts when the bugs weren't too bad, he added.

"At Alexander Fiord this year, I think we probably hit pretty close to 19 C on a number of days," he said.

"We had glorious weather of no clouds for about 2½ weeks, and we've had these sort of warm summers now for the last eight or nine years."

Plants growing taller, bigger
The warmer weather has also meant plants are growing taller and faster, and blooming earlier, in the High Arctic, Henry said.

He said that over the past 28 years, annual temperatures have risen by almost 3 C. That has led to denser vegetation both on wetlands and on drier land, especially an evergreen shrub known as the Arctic white heather.

"In both cases there was two times and greater weight of plants, so the biomass has increased by two to five times above the ground," he said.

"And below ground in the wetland, we found 10 times the increase in biomass over that ... 28 years."

Henry said researchers are noticing more woody shrubs across tundra systems around the world, matching observations by Inuit.

Henry said he is also noticing the permafrost is melting, and there is a lot of erosion and slumping along one of the rivers
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/20 ... -july.html

[tropicana]

i loved that article, Sask! i have been following the warmth up there in Nunavut this summer, simply amazing! Even yesterday (Thursday) Alert was at record high temperature territory.

-justin-

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Must admit I thought of your postings here when I saw it Justin.

For a summer with a "blank" sun those Arctic high temps sure are amazing.

[tropicana]

RECORD HIGH MINS Fri Aug 7 2009

Key West FL 84F tied 1996

-justin-

[somethingfunny]

Record Highs Fri Aug 7 2009

Death Valley CA 102F tied 1926

RECORD HIGH MINS Fri Aug 7 2009

Key West FL 84F tied 1996

-justin-

Is that a typo for Death Valley?