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Sunday, July 17, 2022

Texas Weather -- July 17, 2022

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!

Wiki entry

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

4 comments:

  1. My Dad was born in Parshall in Jan '36.

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    1. The good news: it could only get better from then on. LOL.

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  2. Now 86, he has had a good run. Given he had to deal with me as a teenager, he is a saint.

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    1. Surviving the winter of '36 prepared him for you, although he did not know it at the time.

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