As Of September 7th, 7,000 Daily Temperature Records Have Already Fallen In The US This Summer

[hatrack]

More than 7,000 daily temperature records across the United States were broken this summer, a Washington Post analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed. In the third-hottest summer on record, more than 400 monthly records and 27 all-time records also fell.

Daily temperature records, meaning the highest temperature ever recorded at a particular station on a particular calendar date, are broken more frequently than monthly records, which indicate the highest temperature ever recorded during a whole month. Breaking all-time records — the hottest temperature recorded at a station in its entire history — is even rarer.

Such records are but one measure for tracking and quantifying summer heat. Other metrics can offer a longer-term perspective, such as a location’s summer average temperature over time. Taken together, the records show a country coping with hotter days that fuel larger forest fires and longer, more intense droughts.

Tens of thousands of weather stations across the United States, from big cities to small towns, in deserts and on mountain slopes, feed data to NOAA’s daily temperature database. Of those stations, some 7,600 have at least 30 years’ worth of daily temperature data, enough for scientists to draw long-term conclusions about climate changes. The Washington Post analyzed those stations to discover where and when records had been broken from June 1 through Sept. 7.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/temperature-records-summer/?itid=mr_climate%20&%20environment_1

[Zambero]

1. Boise, Idaho has had 27 100+ days in 2022

Shattering the previous record of 20 days. "Average" is 8 days per year. Also the hottest August ever.

[2naSalit]

2. It's been way too hot...

In western Montana. Most days since June have been in the mid to high 90s if not in the 100s, north of the 45th parallel btw.

[mountain grammy]

3. four years ago we spent the first half of August in Montana

in our camper.. lots of boondocking. Never needed A/C.

[2naSalit]

4. I would have died...

In this place without it the past two summers. Four years ago I was farming several acres in the valley, it was too cold and wet in the spring/early summer. Too hot and dry for a couple months then an early hard freeze with snow in early/mid October.

That was a very cool year compared to this and last summer.