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I came home from work this afternoon, checked the weather underground, and noticed some of the smaller weather stations had some unreal temps. Greeneville was at 110F, Watauga lake was 108F, Kingsport was 104F, one of the little stations in Farragut was 109F. It's not supposed to get this hot here.
The same was true for here.
7/3 - 95
7/4 - 102
7/5 - 104
7/6 - 110
7/7 - 106
At the major stations it was still hot but a couple of degrees "cooler", like on 7/6 I think it was 104 at a couple of the the major stations. But I think 110 is probably the highest actual temperature (no heat indexes) that I've ever experienced in my life. It was a more of a dry heat (minus today) which isn't the usual.
@ the cool down to the 90's & upper-80's j/k lol. Hope to see more 100's when Summer really gets going.
At the major stations it was still hot but a couple of degrees "cooler", like on 7/6 I think it was 104 at a couple of the the major stations. But I think 110 is probably the highest actual temperature (no heat indexes) that I've ever experienced in my life. It was a more of a dry heat (minus today) which isn't the usual.
Central Park readings:
7/4 96 F
7/5 99 F
7/6 103 F
7/7 100 F
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@ the cool down to the 90's & upper-80's j/k lol. Hope to see more 100's when Summer really gets going.
And that's the thing...Dallas is about as dry as you get in the Eastern half of Texas...most other cities (Houston, Beaumont etc.) are way more humid (yuck!).
I agree...a lot of the northeast/mid-atlantic has weather that's similar to the south...it's just the duration of heat that is the difference...like cold weather in Texas...it gets really cold but it doesn't last nearly as long...and is much more hit and miss than in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic..except for maybe the panhandle.
I agree, it's the duration. It's never just constant heat, the average heat wave is a 3-5 day chain of 90's then it goes back to the 80's then back to the 90's, it's a cycle. And I wish our Winters were more like Texas's, cool/mild but can still see cold/snow just to keep people quiet lol.
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Originally Posted by GeorgiaGirl14
Neither a low above 80, nor has it been in the 90s in the middle of the night has happened this year in the deep south. It most likely happens in my area east in the deep south, yet it hasn't this year.
95+ is a heatwave to me unless there is no humidity. Sadly, that is the average in July for the city right up the road from me (east not west).
Really? I've counted 6 80+ degree lows here this year, the highest being 85 (1 degree below our average high). The South will get it's turn, it'll probably come full force too (and I'll be jealous if we're left out lol).
It's actually 94 degrees in Dallas right now with a heat index of 102 degrees and a dew point of 72. Joy it is not. Of course, if the forecast holds true, it will be a little better but the dew point will still be quite uncomfortable.
It was 74 the other morning but it was so humid, I could hardly stand it. A Georgia boy (man) next door quit working outside because he said he only soaks one t-shirt a day and then goes inside. Nevertheless, even I, hater of humidity lasted more than twice as long as he did.
It did heat up something horrible here in the mid afternoon. The sun poked out and the combination of that and the humidity made it feel like one of the hottest days this summer. I rarely sweat by just sitting on the patio but sweat I did. Today it's supposed to rain quite a bit, which will keep the temps down but when the sun comes out again after the effects of this tropical depression moves on it's going to be horrid.
We here in the Pacific Northwest finally saw our first real warm weather starting Tuesday (the 6th). Up 'til then we've been grimly slogging through one of the chilliest, gloomiest and nastiest springs and early summers in recent memory. But all that went "poof" three days ago. My thermometer's maximum temperature readings since the first are as follows:
Corvallis' (OR) official readings were similar, though I think they registered one more seventy degree day. We've got one more day of mid-nineties ahead of us before we return to "normal" summer weather. June was legendary in its chilliness so we had virtually no early summer weather or time to acclimate ourselves before the big heat hit.
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