![]() ![]() ![]() Billings, Montana in 1988, which was the year of major fires in Yellowstone National Park and smoke reached as far as Billings.Several cities saw their hottest summer in the 1980s including: (NOAA's National Centers For Environmental Information) The top five warmest summers are depicted based on largest areas. The summer of 2012 was the hottest on record in Denver and Cheyenne, Wyoming, and 2012 also holds the record for most 100 degree-days in Denver with 13. (MORE: Hottest Temperatures Recorded in All 50 States) The all-time hottest temperature on record here was set in June at 105 degrees and August 2011 is the hottest August on record. Albuquerque (August was the hottest August on record)įarther east, Tallahassee also saw its hottest summer in 2011. ![]() Midland, Texas (June and August set hottest monthly records).Oklahoma City (Set monthly records for July and August).Dallas (also set a monthly record for August).Houston (Both June and August set monthly records for hottest June and August).The following locations saw their hottest summer in 2011: More than 50 percent of the southern region consisting of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee were experiencing exceptional drought, the highest category of drought, by the end of August, according to the U.S. The next summer, 2011, was brutally hot and dry in the southern Plains. Louisville (June was also the hottest June on record).Miami (also set a monthly record for June).Raleigh (June was also the hottest June on record).Philadelphia (also June 2010 was the hottest June on record).The summer of 2010 saw the hottest temperatures on record for several locations across the Northeast and South: Out of the 50 cities we looked at, just over half of those have had the hottest June-August period since 2010. Hottest Summers Have Been Fairly Recent For Many Locations and calculated which years were the hottest and which were the coolest.īelow is a closer look at what we found. We took a look at the average temperatures (factors in both high and low temperature each day) for June, July and August, which is known as meteorological summer, for 50 cities across the U.S. Conversely, when the weather pattern over the summer is dominated by a southward dip in the jet stream records for coolest summer are possible. When a stubborn weather pattern with a strong ridge of high pressure becomes prolonged or persistent, records for the hottest summer can be set. Summer can be a time of scorching heat across the U.S., but do you know when the hottest and coolest summer on record occurred where you live? ![]()
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