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On May 21, 2022, heat became prevalent in the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in a near record hot Preakness Stakes horse race, with Baltimore and Philadelphia having temperatures of 95 °F (35 °C), Washington DC at 92 °F (33 °C), and New York City at 90 °F (32 °C). [ 6] This heat persisted into May 22, when Dulles International Airport hit 91 °F ...
The Willamette Valley is gearing up for extreme temperatures at or over 100 degrees in the coming days as the incoming heat dome will bring the warmest weather the area has seen so far this year.
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in Canada.
On July 31, Phoenix, Arizona ended a 31-day streak of high temperatures of over 110 °F (43 °C). The average temperature in Phoenix during July 2023 was 102.7 °F (39.3 °C), the hottest month for any U.S. city in history. On July 19, Phoenix broke their all time warmest low temperature by only falling to 97 °F (36 °C) at night.
Last year, during an August heat wave with temperatures over 100 degrees for four consecutive days, the Eugene Water and Electric Board called on customers to cut their energy use wherever possible.
In Death Valley, California, which holds the record for the highest air temperature ever recorded on Earth, high temperatures are forecast to reach 122 F on Wednesday and 124 F on Thursday and Friday.
Oregon has a wide range of temperatures, though the extremes are rare. [3] The highest was recorded on July 29, 1898, in Hermiston, Oregon, and again on August 10, 1898, in both Pendleton, Oregon and Redmond, Oregon, and once more on June 29, 2021, at Pelton Dam. All are east of the Cascades, when the temperature reached 119 °F (48 °C). [6 ...
The most snowfall in a calendar month was 53.0 inches (1.35 m) in February 1894, and the most in a season at least 134.5 inches (3.42 m) (some days unavailable) between July 1893 and June 1894, in contrast to which as little as 15.40 inches (0.39 m) fell in the drought season between July 1923 and June 1924.