Mountain West Discussion

[Chinook]

My brother is out on a road trip for nearly a month. He sent me pics from Yellowstone. I bet he is baking in the heat, if he's not high up in altitude right now.

[frontranger8]

Feel lucky to only be getting 95 here lol.

[GaWx]

Sunday 7/12/26: all-time records were broken or tied in these places in the NW US and I’m guessing there are others that I missed:

1) Wide stretch of S MT (450 miles long):
ALL-TIME RECORDS TIED OR BROKEN  

  

SITE       HIGH TEMP   PREVIOUS ALL-TIME RECORD   PERIOD OF RECORD BEGINS  

BILLINGS      111         108 (7/14/2002)                1934  

LIVINGSTON    105         105 (8/5/1961)                 1948  

MILES CITY    115         111 (6/26/2012)                1937  

SHERIDAN      109         107 (7/27/2021)                1907  

BAKER         110         109 (7/25/2024)                1998  

 

2) N UT

..ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT SALT LAKE CITY UT  

  

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 109 DEGREES WAS SAT AT SALT LAKE CITY,   

UT TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD DAILY RECORD OF 105 DEGREES SET IN   

2002. THIS IS ALSO A NEW MONTHLY AND ALL-TIME HIGH TEMPERATURE   

RECORD FOR THE SITE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 107, SET IN 1960, 2002,   

2021, AND 2022.  

 

3) E ID:

THE IDAHO FALLS FANNING FIELD AIRPORTRECORDED A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 103 DEGREES   

TODAY. THIS NOT ONLY BREAKS THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR JULY 12 OF 100   

DEGREES SET IN 2002, BUT BREAKS THE ALL-TIME RECORD FOR FANNING FIELD OF 102 SINCE RECORD KEEPING STARTED IN 1948.

[smokeybandit]

Kind of funny that an "all time" record doesn't even span 80 years.

[GaWx]

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

Kind of funny that an "all time" record doesn't even span 80 years.

 Yeah, the wording does sound kind of funny. Obviously, nobody can ever say what the hottest, coldest, etc. of all time/ever is in any location since that can’t possibly be known. But saying something is an “all-time record” in a location is, of course, totally different and is what the NWS is referring to.

 Now I’m going to get more technical: whereas one can’t possibly know the hottest or coldest ever in a location, they can know the hottest or coldest ever in a city (I’m saying “city” not “location”) if records have been kept since the city’s founding. Do you see the difference?

[A-L-E-K]

2 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

Kind of funny that an "all time" record doesn't even span 80 years.

cope

[smokeybandit]

Nothing to cope about. 

Just a lot of these cities have records going back at least 100 years, some into the 1800s. Just funny to see one that's only 1948.

You can go back to being a Chicago lurker after your snipe attempt.

[GaWx]

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

Nothing to cope about. 

Just a lot of these cities have records going back at least 100 years, some into the 1800s. Just funny to see one that's only 1948.

Baker, MT, only goes back to 1988!