An unstoppable series of scorching summer heat waves has shattered single-day temperature records across the South and Southwest this season, causing significant disruptions in major cities nationwide. The extreme heat, described as “dangerously” hot, continues to persist this week from California to Florida. On July 22, Salt Lake City recorded a daily record high of 105 degrees, while Phoenix experienced yet another record-breaking day at 118 degrees, marking 23 consecutive days with temperatures above 110 degrees. On July 21, El Paso, Texas, broke its daily record for the fifth consecutive day, reaching a high of 107 degrees.
On July 20, Phoenix extended its streak of 110-plus-degree days to 21, setting another daily record at 115 degrees. Flagstaff, Arizona, also set a new daily record of 90 degrees. The scorching temperatures have caused a wave of new record highs throughout the region. On July 19, Phoenix experienced its hottest day since 2017, with temperatures reaching 119 degrees at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. This marked the city’s fourth hottest day on record. Flagstaff, Arizona, also experienced a record-breaking day at 92 degrees, along with El Paso, Texas (111), Tucson, Arizona (112), and Baton Rouge, Louisiana (98).
On July 18, Phoenix broke its own record for the most consecutive days with temperatures above 110 degrees, reaching the mark for the 19th day in a row with temperatures hitting 118 degrees. Death Valley also set a new daily record at a staggering 128 degrees. Tucson, Arizona, broke its daily record at 112 degrees, Las Vegas set a daily record at 100 degrees, and several cities in Texas, including Austin, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, broke daily temperature records at 107, 101, 109, 110, and 104 degrees, respectively.
The heat wave continued on July 17, with Las Vegas breaking a daily record at 96 degrees, Flagstaff, Arizona, breaking its record at 94 degrees, and several cities in Texas, including San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and Fort Worth, breaking their daily records at 104, 108, 109, and 108, respectively. On July 16, Salt Lake City surpassed its daily record high at 106 degrees, with other cities such as Santa Rosa, California (99 degrees), Flagstaff, Arizona (96 degrees), and Corpus Christi, Texas (103 degrees), also setting new daily records.
The heat wave persisted on July 15, with Flagstaff, Arizona, tying a daily record high at 89 degrees. On July 14, major cities in Texas, including San Antonio and Waco, tied their daily high temperature records. Fort Worth, Texas, broke its record at 106 degrees, and Phoenix tied its daily high at 116 degrees. On July 13, Phoenix set another daily high temperature record at 114 degrees, while Baton Rouge, Louisiana, tied its daily record at 99 degrees. On July 12, Phoenix tied a daily temperature record at a high of 114 degrees.
The heat wave also impacted other parts of the country. On July 11, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, tied its daily high temperature at 96 degrees. On July 8, Miami broke its daily temperature record for the fourth consecutive day, reaching 96 degrees. On July 6, Tucson, Arizona, set a daily record high at 110 degrees, breaking the previous record by one degree. On July 5, Portland, Oregon, reached a scorching 98 degrees, breaking the city’s daily record high by two degrees, while other cities like Vancouver, Washington, and Eugene, Oregon, also set daily record highs. El Paso, Texas, broke a daily record at an extreme 107 degrees. On July 4, Tampa set another daily record high at 97 degrees, marking the planet’s hottest day in nearly 125,000 years.
The heat wave continued into July, with Tampa breaking its daily record on July 1, alongside Stockton, California, and Sacramento tying their records. On June 30, several cities across the country, including Tampa, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Billings, Montana, tied their daily record highs. On June 29, Miami set its second consecutive daily temperature record at 95 degrees, while Fort Worth, Texas, narrowly hit a record high at 103 degrees, and New Orleans broke another daily record at 100 degrees. On June 28, Roswell, New Mexico, set another daily high at 112 degrees, while Miami broke another daily record with a temperature of 95 degrees.
As the heat wave extended eastward, New Orleans set a new daily record at 98 degrees on June 25, beating its previous high from last year. On June 24, Roswell, New Mexico, tied its daily heat record with a high of 110 degrees, while San Antonio, Texas, tied its daily record for the second straight day at 102 degrees. On June 23, San Antonio tied its daily heat record at 102 degrees, while Laredo set another daily record at 109 degrees. On June 22, Corpus Christi, McAllen, and Laredo continued to break daily high temperature records at 103, 105, and 114 degrees, respectively.
June 21 saw the Florida Keys tying a daily high temperature record at 94 degrees, St. Paul, Minnesota, breaking a daily record at 91 degrees, Corpus Christi, Texas, breaking a daily record at 100 degrees, and Houston tying its daily record at 99 degrees. On June 20, Laredo and McAllen broke daily records again, at 114 and 106 degrees, respectively, while Austin set another daily record at 106 degrees, and Midland broke its daily record at 109 degrees.
The excessive heat is not limited to the current heat wave. Last September, approximately 1,500 cities and towns in the U.S., as well as the U.K. and southern Europe, broke daily heat records over a 30-day period. This year, China experienced a heat wave that broke single-day temperature records, and forecasters predict the U.K. will have the hottest recorded year. As climate change and greenhouse gas emissions continue to impact the planet, forecasters expect more frequent and intense heat waves, prolonged drought conditions, and increased wildfire occurrences.
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