August 21st, is the 30th anniversary of the hottest day ever in NC

[Rich6896]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

The last day of a period of four consecutive days at or above 100 degrees ended at Raleigh and Asheboro (August 20-23, 1983).

Maybe it was a record for days above 90

[SunnyKayak]

Originally Posted by Rich6896

Maybe it was a record for days above 90

Im sure a lot of cities in this state fall in that category, especially last year.

[poppydog]

It was last year right around the 4th of July. We went to the mountains for the first part of it and thought it would have cooled off when we came back, but it was still blazing hot that weekend at the Festival for the Eno. July 3rd - 8th (6 days) all had high temps of 100 degrees or more at RDU according to wunderground Weather History for Raleigh-Durham Airport, NC | Weather Underground . The record highs for the 3rd, 4th, 6th & 7th were set or tied then.

[poppydog]

macjr, wunderground has the heat index on that hottest day as 117F at 3:00 pm -- Weather History for Fayetteville, NC | Weather Underground

[Taynxtlvl]

Originally Posted by Ex-LI

And Union County is still on Stage 2 water restrictions.

Obviously improper record keeping. lol No one in these parts has seen this much rain in decades this time of year.

[Taynxtlvl]

Also I remember seeing a map of highest conceivable temperature ranges for all the 50 states. And if I recall it in theory would never rise higher than 110-112 here at any given time. That 110 in Fayetteville sounds about right. I'm going to search for the map. The further aouth and west the state the worse the heat could possibly be I think Tennessee was like 112-114 and it got worse from there..