Different Day…Same Heat
I don’t even have a cute video for you today to try and make things a bit more bearable as you read through this soon to be stat heavy weather blog. Here is what I talked about this morning on FOX 4 News…
1) Yesterday the highest temperature in the world occurred in Al Dhafra, United Arab Emirates {UAE} with 118°. Yesterday the highest temperature in the USA was @ Norton Dam, KS in Norton County, KS near the lake there…118°. So yesterday the folks in W KS can clain that they tied the highest temperature in the world!
2) The last time it was this hot in JUNE was in 1988! We had 7 days with 100° or above including 6 days in a row from the 20th to the 26th. That summer we had 16 days with highs 100° or above. Interesting to note was the rainfall, or lack thereof,. In May and June that year we had 3.94″ of rainfall. That July and August we only had 2.17″ of rainfall. So far THIS May and June we’re at 3.32″ of rainfall (about 7″ below average). We’re DRIER now compared to 1988. FYI, in 1988 we had an impressive 8.5″+ of rainfall…mostly on 2 different days. Disturbing trends concerning the lack of rainfall.
3) Yesterday, St Louis broke their monthly June record high with 108°. That is their forecast for today. Here is a look at some of the other records that fell on Thursday.
Rawlins WY 92F tied 1961
Bluefield WV 92F
Wheeling OH 94F
Morristown TN 97F
Madison WI 97F tied 1931
Grand Rapids MI 97F tied 1931
London KY 99F **all time June record**
Jackson KY 100F **all time June record**
McAlester OK 100F tied 1954
Greenville MS 101F tied 1925
Knoxville TN 101F
Springfield MO 101F
Fayetteville AR 101F
Joplin MO 102F
Dayton OH 102F tied 1944
Sidney NE 102F
Toledo OH 103F
Louisville KY 103F **all time June record**
Tupelo MS 104F tied 1954
Concordia KS 104F tied 1990
Indianapolis IN 104F **all time June record and hottest since Jul 14 1954**
Muscle Shoals AL 105F
Paducah KY 105F tied 1952
Nashville TN 105F *hottest so early*
North Little Rock AR 105F **all time June record tie Jun 25 2012**
Evansville IN 106F **ALL time June record**
Bowling Green KY 106F tied 1936
Fort Smith AR 106F
Topeka KS 106F tied 1936
Wichita KS 106F tied 1990
Fort Wayne IN 106F **all time record tied 3 other times**
Little Rock AR 107F **all time June record**
Harrison AR 107F **all time June record**
Colombia MO 107F **all time June record**
St Louis MO 108F **all time June record**
Dodge City KS 108F
Russell KS 109F
Notice all the June records. Today many more are falling, especially in the SE part of the country. I think with 104° in Washington DC that they just broke their all time June record. Their all time ever record is 106°…hmmmm. Smyrna, TN is 108°. Columbia, SC is 107°.Atlanta has hit 100F for the first time since August 22, 2007.
All very impressive. As of this writing KCI is @ 99 and Downtown just hit 100° More to come today and over the next few days. Dewpoints are inthe low 60s which is pretty darn impressive for late June. Here is a map showing the 1PM temperatures…
What may break this run, clouds and slightly cooler air aloft. Tomorrow and Sunday may be days with some convective debris for leftover showers across far N MO and IA. Today we barely had a taste of some of them this AM. They quickly fell apart and thinned out in a matter of a couple of hours. Should they be somewhat thicker tomorrow or Sunday, we may be able to trim highs back into the 95-100° range. The air temperature just above the surface drops about 4° on Sunday…maybe that will be enough.
Whatever break we get is short lived, it comes roaring back by WED of next week, if not earlier with 100-108° likely (some might actually get hotter)
There are signs on the newest EURO that the extreme heat may back off sometime NEXT weekend as the ridge that’s dominating the weather across much of the country retrogrades and reorganizes across the Rockies, placing us in NW flow and allowing some weak fronts to move into the region bringing some cooler air from the Great Lakes towards us. The problem with that is it’s not a wet scenario for us.
That will do it for the day. Hopefully some better news tomorrow in terms of clouds and maybe some “less hot” weather.
Joe
