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if that even happened an argument can be made for global warming being a good thing to keep that kind of cold weather away and increase and lengthen the growing season.

I dont think you could grow crops here with lows in the 30s, maybe that was a mountaintop thing?

it already hit 93 here Tony and thats with cloudy skies

wow how did become so long Tony? 1980: Record heat continued across the middle of the country. Daily record highs included: Columbia, MO: 108°, Tulsa, OK: 108°, Oklahoma City, OK: 107° and Springfield, MO: 104°. Dodge City, KS recorded 22 days of 100° or higher, with 17 of those days in a row with temperatures of 102° or higher. This was the driest July of the 20th century across Oklahoma. The statewide average rainfall was less than a half an inch, with many locations receiving no rain. Along with the dry weather, it was very hot, with several high temperature records broken. An estimated 37 people died across Oklahoma due in part to the extreme heat. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) endless summers 1988 - Twenty-one cities in the north central U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Sioux City, IA, with a reading of 107 degrees. The reading of 105 degrees at Minneapolis, MN, was their hottest since 1936. Pierre and Chamberlain, SD, with highs of 108 degrees, were just one degree shy of the hot spot in the nation, Palm Springs, CA. (The National Weather Summary) 2010: The heat of July 2010 was brutal and relentless !! Tied for hottest month of all time in Washington (83.1 °F) and at BWI (81.5 °F) (Until 2011 see 2011 below) Positive monthly departures at all major airports: + 3.9 °F at DCA, +5.0 °F at BWI and +3.8 °F at IAD Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 Richmond had its hottest July with an average temperature of 82.8 °F; the previous record was 82.4 °F set in 1993. The hottest month Richmond has ever felt was August of 1900 with a mean temperature of 82.9 °F which was only 0.1 °F higher. But this July was preceded by the hottest spring and hottest June on record. Richmond's average temperature for both June and July was the hottest on record at 82 °F. Norfolk also set a record for those two months at 81.6, according to the Weather Service. (Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC)July temperatures -- Richmond had 24 days 90 °F or higher and the 113 year record for July is 26 days in 1993. Richmond had 18 days 95 °F or higher setting a new 113 year record for July the most for any month on record. Norfolk, VA had 13 days 95 °F or higher tying their record for July. Richmond had 7 days with 100 °F or higher and the previous 113 year record, the most for any month, was 6 days in July 1977 and 1963. The 105 °F record temperature on the 24th and 25th also ties the highest maximum temperature ever recorded in July in Richmond. The Airport had ten days in 2010 with the temperature 100 °F or more; the old record was nine set in 1954. Rainfall total of only 2.01 inches for June and July made it the driest June and July on record. (Ref. Richmond Times-Dispatch Newspaper Thursday, August 26, 2010)(Ref. Richmond Weather Records - KRIC) DCA soared to a record 102 °F on the 7th and 101 °F on the 24th. BWI recorded record high temperatures on 4 days: 6th (105 °F), 7th (101 °F), 24th (101 °F) and 25th (100 °F) On the 6th, BWI soared to 105 °F; 2nd hottest day ever in Baltimore (107 °F, 7/10/36); at or above 100 °F at BWI on 5 days, most on record At or above 90 °F on 44 days in 2010 at DCA, most number of days through July on record. Ref. July PRESTO Page 1 2011: Hottest average monthly temperatures on record at all three major airports: 84.5 °F at DCA (+5.3 °F); 81.7 °F at BWI (+5.2 °F); and 81.0 °F (+5.3 °F) at IAD. On 22nd, BWI’s high of 106 °F was second highest temperature on record; IAD's record maximum of 105 °F was hottest temperature on record; DCA’s 104 °F on 30th tied for the 5th highest reading in Washington; Heat Index values reached 121 °F at DCA, 118 °F at BWI and 117 °F at IAD due to oppressive humidity. DCA recorded 7 days with minimums at or above 80 °F, including a record 4 consecutive days from 21st-25th BWI observed 4 days with highs at or above 100 °F ; 3 such occurrences at DCA and IAD DCA reported 25 days with highs at or above 90 °F; BWI and IAD, 24; setting records at all three locations Ref. Taken from the Sterling Reporter Volume 10, Issue 3 National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC Forecast Office Summer 2011 Ref. July 2011 PRESTO Page 1 1993: The 30.3 inches of rain that fell during the month at Worth County, Missouri was nearly equal to the amount of rainfall that the area would receive in an entire year. Record precipitation that occurred across a good portion of the mid-Mississippi valley during the summer fell as far east as parts of central Illinois. During the month of July, Canton reported 12.66 inches of rain and Peoria reported 10.15 inches, both setting a record for the month. Springfield's 9.46 inches was good enough for the 2nd wettest July on record. Sioux Falls airport received 7.86 inches. That ranks July 1993 as the third wettest July on record in Sioux Falls. The high total of July 1993 also contributed to the wettest summer (June, July & August) on record in Sioux Falls with 17.39 inches of rain. Crop growth was very slow, with corn and soybeans two weeks to one month behind their normal growth by the end of July in Iowa. Losses in the corn crop amounted to nearly $1.389 billion, losses in soybeans were around $941 million dollars and oat damage was about $26 million dollars. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1994: Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1994: Philadelphia, PA ended the month with 10.42 inches of rain, breaking the monthly record of 10.30 inches set in July 1919. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) Philly had so much rain with a super hot July????

I dont know about those other ones but 1949 and 1955 were extremely hot!!!

omg some guy on ABC was using a digital thermometer to measure sidewalk temperatures and it was at 164 degrees, the subway platforms were probably over 200 degrees!!

please adjust JFK upward to 95, that was the high there yesterday.

and this was before the Clean Air Act was passed too.

1944 was such a hot summer, pretty amazing for back then. 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1966 some Hall of Fame summers right there

Back then we probably had a lot of volcanic eruptions and nuclear fall out emissions. It's not part of our climate to get that cold here in July.

already got to 93 here with overcast skies lol

Everybody is talking about today's busted forecast lol They thought today would be cool and rainy it was supposedly a level 2 flood event day?

We made it to 93 here already, I thought it was supposed to be cooler today and rain all day? Has JFK made it to a 80.0 average for the month, Don?

I thought a cold front was supposed to come through and cool us all down? Talk about a busted forecast lol, it's already 93 here even with overcast skies!!!

wow that was a lot of rain on July 31, 1996-- over 3.5 inches at JFK, what happened Don? I remember Bertha from July 1996 but that was much earlier in the month!

I didn't even hear thunder

SW Nassau didn't even go completely cloudy lol

so maybe it won't be like 2011 after all lol

Yes my best summer since 2010. But even in 2010 we did not have any 7+ day heatwaves from what I remember, but it was my hottest summer for 90,95 and 100 degree days. 32/11/3 in that department!!!

I hope we don't see a heatburst lol

wow it's still partly sunny here did you make it to 99 again today??

I thought of that when I read something recently about being able to make your own portable particle collider lol. When you turn the lights out you can actually see the particles glow as they collide.

it's interesting how the really long 7+ day heatwaves have become very rare, our last one was in 2013. Any thoughts on why this has happened Don? Are frontal passages during the summer becoming more common? I remember during the megaheatwave in July 1993 that lasted 10 days that there was no frontal passage for almost 2 weeks lol. In July 1999 we had an 11 day heatwave without any frontal passages too!! My hottest summers prior to 2010: 1993, 1999 and 2002 each had multiple heatwaves of 7+ days.

Maybe one day we will be able to make and install our own rooftop radars.

I also think they build differently, their buildings don't trap heat like ours do.