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This week's Oklahoma City forecast. Monday: Sunny with a high near 102 degrees; the heat index may reach 106. Tuesday: High near 103 degrees with a small chance of showers and thunderstorms in the ...
Records continued to be challenged on Wednesday when the weather service in Phoenix reported that temperatures reached 108 degrees, which breaks the previous record high of 107 degrees set in 1980.
On Saturday, Death Valley set the record high for the date with a reading of 128, the weather service said. The previous high mark for the date happened in 2007, when the reading reached 127.
Over 200 U.S cities have registered new record high temperatures. [14] The worst heat wave in the US occurred in 1936 and killed more than 5000 people directly. The worst heat wave in Australia occurred in 1938–39 and killed 438. The second worst was in 1896.
In recent decades, new high temperature records have substantially outpaced new low temperature records on a growing portion of Earth's surface. [1] Comparison shows seasonal variability for record increases. The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are ...
A testament to the high variability of conditions in autumn is the extreme temperature drop of November 11, 1911, with a daily high and low of 83 and 17 °F (28 and −8 °C), both of which still hold as the record high and low for the date. The last 90 °F (32 °C) of the warm season can be expected on September 26, and the average date of the ...
Summer heat scorched Texas and the Southwest on Wednesday, pushing Phoenix to nearly 90 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures and putting millions of people under excessive heat warnings.
[1] [17] Modern weather historians such as Christopher C. Burt and William Taylor Reid have also claimed that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 to 2.8 °C (4 to 5 °F) too high. [18] [19] The WMO has come out in support of the current record stating that "We accept that Death Valley temperature extreme record. If ...