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I have a few decades of NC weather experience and it is unusual to be this hot so early! This feels more like late July/August. I read this morning: "The last time it was 102 this early in June was the 1940s."
It got over 100 degrees in Raleigh for a few days in the 2nd week of June 2008. That was the 2nd straight year of our bad drought.
Temps at RDU 6/7/08 - 100, 6/8/08 - 101, 6/9/08 - 100, 6/10/08 -101
4 straight days of 100+ at RDU. It was brutal for early June!
The Research Triangle is one giant, incredibly humid, longleaf pine forest. This area is definitely one of the most humid outside of the Deep South, it's not always this bad but not too different from the way it usually is.
As amply stated already, this is historically unprecedented for this area, particularly in June. The last couple of summers were cool and pleasant, with few 90s and almost no official heat waves. It seems people have extreme short term memories when it comes to climate and weather, often asserting that extreme events are typical. Of course, if you just moved here, you have good justification for not knowing.
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Immediately stop building new highways that encourage long commutes. Choke off the sprawl.
Stop encouraging the toll monster to expand. The legislature has just decided to stop diverting a lot of highway taxes to the general fund. Why are tolls necessary?
I detoured through Raleigh on my way up to Virginia yesterday. Even though it's unofficial, the temperature gauge in my SUV hit 101 between Wendell and Zebulon.
It's been this way all the way up from GA to VA. There should be a little relief tomorrow, if 93 counts as relief.
Definitely feels early to be hitting 100 (or close to it...think RDU only got to 99 today and has since backed off to 97). The last time RDU officially hit 100 was around 4th of July 2012 when we had a record of nearly a week straight hitting at least 100, so some summers we never quite get as hot as we already are right now.
That was the week we moved here from AZ. Worst part was that we made the drive from AZ to NC with a broken air conditioner.
We had no air over the weekend. Thank God we had someone come yesterday and the house is now a beautiful 72 degrees
Not personally, but I've seen a myriad of posts of CD by him.
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