The high in our zip code today will be 105°F.
But tomorrow, the temperature is expected to hit 109°F.
- Record high in Texas: 120°F on June 28, 1994.
- we've been here before, see below;
- record DFW high:
- 113° -- June 27, 1980 -- well before "the era" of global warming
- 113° -- June 26, 1980
Okay, so that's the record high in Texas.
North Dakota has a higher high record than Texas. LOL!
In order, record highs:
- California (Death Valley): 134°
- Arizona: 128°
- Nevada: 125°
- New Mexico: 122°
- Kansas: 121°
- North Dakota (Steele -- July 6, 1936): 121°
- Williston's record high: 108° -- July 27, 1988
- Arkansas: 120°
- Oklahoma: 120°
- South Dakota: 120°
- Texas: 120°
- Washington: 120°
- Oregon: 119°
At same link, record lows:
- Alaska: -80°;
- Montana: -70°; mountain state
- Utah: -69°; mountain state
- Wyoming: -63°; mountain state
- Colorado: -61°; mountain state
- Idaho: -60°; mountain state
- Minnesota: -60°;
- North Dakota: -60°; Parshall, ND, also in 1936 -- February 15, 1936
- South Dakota
My Dad was born in Parshall in Jan '36.
ReplyDeleteThe good news: it could only get better from then on. LOL.
DeleteNow 86, he has had a good run. Given he had to deal with me as a teenager, he is a saint.
ReplyDeleteSurviving the winter of '36 prepared him for you, although he did not know it at the time.
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