idk about 2025, but +100°F in Alaska is a thing
It’s been a thing once, at least in an official, record-keeping capacity. In Fort Yukon, AK it hit 100F in 1915, but the accuracy of that reading is still in question.
That said it is pretty normal for Fairbanks and other parts of the interior to get up in the high 80s/low 90s in the summer (before dipping down to the -20s/-30s for the winter).
Texas is a bit surprising.
It absolutely has been a mild summer. We have only had 4 days in the DFW area over 100 vs typically around 18 days on an average year. We easily hit past 107 in a normal year just in DFW.
I’m curious where Hawaii sits. Does the ocean breeze help keep it cool or no?
The ocean keeps the temp stable.
This lists 92°f last month, but it’s likely only for this location and not the entire state. It’s generally very temperate, with Honolulu averaging 75°-85°f all year. Looks like there are some spots that average a little higher, but the state as a whole has only a single instance of recording 100°f in 1931. But on the other end, the tops of some of the mountains are high enough they get regular snowfall every year, with the lowest ever recorded being 12°f.
ETA -
92°f = 33.3°c
75°-85°f = 23.9°-29.4°c
100°f = 37.8°c
12°f = -11.1°cThank you - that’s really interesting!
Is there a version in standard international units?
100f is 38c, 120f is 49c
West of the Mississippi and excluding the PNW, that looks pretty normal. Plus, you gotta account for extremes. I’m in NW Florida, that 105 was likely recorded at the very tip. California has Death valley.
How do you Yanks feel about the northeast numbers?
Illinois has hit 100 a couple times. I was there in July and it was 101 on multiple days in July.
Maybe very specific to the area you were at? I don’t remember it hitting 100°, at all, here (but my memory has been known to fail me, granted).
I was in Peoria. We had more than a few patients end up in the ER because of heat sickness.
It’s crazy we haven’t had any 110 days in Texas this year. It actually hasn’t felt like all that hot of a summer compared to what we usually get. I’m sure it really sucks ass for those states who aren’t used to or prepared for it.
La Niña watching over us this year. Houston has felt almost habitable for the first time in a while.
Have lived in Tennessee since 09, and just moved to SC in April. SC has been hell, temperature wise. It’s brutally hot and humid. Just spent 9 days in Texas (San Antonio), and the whole time I was there the number on the thermometer was higher than back in SC, but it felt significantly cooler. Everyone kept saying it was so humid and hotter than normal, but after 5 months in the SC low country it felt like a treat. I miss my TN weather, though. Especially now that I’m back in SC
Yeah, the worst week we had here in North Texas was back in May when it was 85F and 90% humidity. That was miserable. Give me a month of 110F 20% over that any day.
94 in Wisconsin, 97 in Michigan, 98 in Vermont, 97 in Ohio.
The Alcan — the Alaska Highway — is the world’s longest franchise ghetto, a one-dimensional city two thousand miles long and a hundred feet wide, and growing at the rate of a hundred miles a year, or as quickly as people can drive up to the edge of the wilderness and park their bagos in the next available slot. It is the only way out for people who want to leave America but don’t have access to an airplane or a ship. It’s all two-lane, paved but not well paved, and choked with mobile homes, family vans, pickup trucks with camper backs. It starts somewhere in the middle of British Columbia, at the crossroads of Prince George, where a number of tributaries feed in together to make a single northbound highway. South of there, the tributaries split into a delta of feeder roads that crosses the Canadian/American border at a dozen or more places spread out over five hundred miles from the fjords of British Columbia to the vast striped wheatlands of central Montana. Then it ties into the American road system, which serves as the headwaters of the migration. This five-hundredmile swath of territory is filled with would-be arctic explorers in great wheeled houses, optimistically northbound, and more than a few rejects who have abandoned their bagos in the north country and hitched a ride back down south. The lumbering bagos and top-heavy fourwheelers form a moving slalom course for Hiro on his black motorcycle. All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they’d grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheeldrive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain’t what it used to be. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers. But as long as you have that four-wheel-drive vehicle and can keep driving north, you can sustain it, keep moving just quickly enough to stay one step ahead of your own waste stream. In twenty years, ten million white people will converge on the north pole and park their bagos there. The low-grade waste heat of their thermodynamically intense lifestyle will turn the crystalline icescape pliable and treacherous. It will a hole through the polar icecap, all that metal will sink to the bottom, sucking the biomass down with it. For a fee, you can drive into Snooze ‘n’ Cruise franchise umbilical your bago. The magic words are “We Have Pull-Thrus,” which means you can enter franchise, hook up, sleep, unhook, and drive out without ever having shift your land zeppelin into reverse. They used to claim it was campground, tried to design franchise with a rustic motif, but customers kept chopping up those log-and-plank signs and wooden picnic tables and using them cooking fires. Nowadays, the signs are electric polycarbonate bubbles, the corporate identity is all round and polished and smooth, in same way that a urinal is, to prevent stuff from building up in the cracks. Because it’s not really camping when you don’t have a house to go back to.
Snow Crash
So what’s California without Death Valley?
My thought, given I’m by the coast and it’s only 85 here right now. It’s actually been weirdly cool up until August, actually, for a lot of CA. Everyone else was borrowing our summer heatwaves.
I was just reading an article about the past 2 summers being below average along the coast here. That jibes with my experience. Honestly I wouldn’t mind a few more hot days.
Plus all the rain those previous years lead to a ton of growth. Then just one dry period was all it took to cause those horrible fires earlier this year. Inconsistency is kind of a big problem everywhere when it comes to climate change.
Still hot as hell. The central valley, and basically anywhere more than 10 miles inland that isn’t elevated, is insufferable in the summer. Sacramento has a high of 102 today
https://www.newsweek.com/california-breaks-near-100-year-temperature-record-2110677
119 in SoCal, Indio and Palm Springs are still deserts tho.
Sauce?
I think it came from AccuWeather. On a quick search, I’m seeing some similar maps from them.
Do it again with record lows and the map will invert.
Great Lakes cooling is real apparently.
I’ll bet Hudson’s Bay helps out too.
We’ve had plenty of very hot years, including up to a week of 100+ days.
My first thought was “Did they not get data on IL?”.
This year has been cooler, but a lot more storms.
Still plenty of 90+ days this year.
Sure, but it’s worth watching.
I could swear we broke 100F more than once when I was growing up in rural Ohio in the '80s and '90s. I wonder if it’s a source/data problem?
No it just wasn’t very hot this year there.
I missed “this year” in the title somehow. Oops.
Little VT also has a lake effect
That’s boiling temperature! How come they are still alive?
Not boiling in Fahrenheit!
Why do you use outdated, non-standard units, then?
I complain about this all the time to my friends in the US! Mostly with distance measurements, but still. I wish the US would use C, metric etc.
