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It then had its hottest October day on record Tuesday, topping out at 113 degrees. Wednesday marked the 113th day this year temperatures in Phoenix were at or above 105 degrees – another all ...
Phoenix is hot-everyone knows that. But this summer and fall, the city, like many other cities in the West, set record after record for high temperatures. Between Sept. 23 and Oct. 14, Phoenix set ...
In July, Phoenix also set a record with a 31-day streak of highs at or above 110 F (43.3 C). The previous record of 18 straight days was set in 1974. The previous record of 18 straight days was ...
Although high temperatures are common in the Southwest in summer, 100 days in a row above 100 degrees Fahrenheit shattered a record that Phoenix set in 1993, according to the National Weather Service.
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [20] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [20] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [21]
Over the past 100 years, the average July temperature in Phoenix has risen dramatically. In the 1920s, it ranged from 89.3 to 92.7 degrees; in the past decade, it sat between 94.7 and 102.7 degrees.
The decertification of the former record in Libya has since cast doubt on the validity of the 1913 recording. [7] If the 1913 record were to be decertified, the highest established recorded air temperature on Earth would be 54.0 °C (129.2 °F), also recorded in Death Valley on 20 June 2013, and in Mitribah, Kuwait on 21 July 2016. [8]
As the world registered the hottest month of all time in July, the southwestern U.S. city of Phoenix shattered its own 1974 heat-wave record, with temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43°C ...