Days Predicted: 20-25
Days to Date: 27
The Days: 1) 6/29...102. 2) 6/30...106 3) 7/1...110. 4) 7/2...111 5) 7/11...101 6) 7/13...100. 7) 7/14...105 8) 7/15...108 9) 7/16...111 10) 7/17...105 11) 7/19...100 12). 7/20...104. 13) 7/21...109/68
14) 7/22...107. 15) 7/23...102 16) 7/25...100. 17) 7/31...100 18) 8/5...101. 19) 8/6...104 20) 8/7..104
21) 8/13...102 22) 8/14...103. 23) 8/15..107 24) 8/16...109 25) 8/17...106 26). 8/24...100 27) 8/28...100
Recent Summer Highs by Year - as a piece of curiosity, here is a handy dandy reference for the last few summers that may be of interest
2022 111 7/2
2021 113 7/10
2020 110 9/6
2019 106 7/28....8/5
2018 107 7/25
Interesting Trivia - The National Weather Service says that our average hottest day falls on 7/19. I have ZERO idea how they make that calculation but, "Hey! They are scientists so they must be right, RIGHT?"
8/31 UPDATE - believe it or not, the high tomorrow is to be 78 degrees. WHOA!....THAT is a rare, random mid-September number. We should bump back up to the 80's but, if the summer is "shut down" for this year? It's been pretty darn sweet! 27 is still HISTORICALLY high number of 100 degree days if you go back before 2016 but its the second lowest of number of them since then.
8/19 UPDATE - HEY...I have provided 15 years of links here. The last little stretch since last update? Yeah, it's August. We are now likely to hit over 30 this year. YES, Sept has to be included. It always has.
2008-2105, we averaged 14 days at 100 or above. 2016 - 2023 (and we aren't done yet)...over 34. Just the facts, folks
8/9 UPDATE - though the prediction this year was a bit of a spitball, it MAY not end up being far off. The prediction for the rest of August would land us right within range. I KNOW!!!.."the forecast"..like that means anything. On top of that, September bit us in the bum HARD last year. Hey, I will just enjoy TODAY. The average for today is 94 and we may not even get to 90. FORE!!!...watch out for my errant tee shots!
8/1 UPDATE - OK, we got through July. June was rather mild...July was rather brutal. The average June temp was 4-5 degrees below normal. The average July high temp was about 3 degrees higher than the last 5 years. 15 of 17 days at 100 or above came in July. August is looking good in the near future. We shall see and remember that September was the killer hot month last year
7/22 UPDATE - here we go! This is more like what we have become accustomed to. After that LOVELY June, July is coming on like a scorned wife sniffing alimony! We even lit a big fatty yesterday and smoked it up to 109. A couple of more are on the way until we hit a "cooling trend" with only upper 90's in the front windshield.
7/12 UPDATE - well...well..well...LOOK AT US!!! 12 days into July and just 4 days at the Century mark or higher! That is more like summers I recall from my youth AND the early days of when I started this almanac. Keep in mind, I started the formal almanac after years of subjective suspicions based on fairly predictable summer weather. We are about to hit 5 days in triple digits. To hear the news, it is like the coming of armageddon. In reality, it is just normal.
7/3 UPDATE - what a lovely surprise. I didn't check but this may be the longest time since the Ol Nutter Almanac has existed between original posting and an update. THAT is how pleasant June has been. The month closes out averaging about 4-5 degrees lower in the average daily high/low than the last 5 year average for the month of June. We may get an additional day or two of century level heat. Things will then back down and finish the week in the 80's as a high. Over the past 4 BRUTAL years, we average about 4.3 days of 100 or above for June compared to 2 this year. It's a wonderful start if you HATE SUPER HOT weather (yeah, that would be me). July and August are the bears, however, so let's not get too excited!
OK...here we go again - all these years later. Yep, there was a time when a degree of science made this a bit of a predictable tool.
The RADICAL SHIFT - of temps being consistently higher since 2016 have rendered the predictive tool a bit useless
Yet - I remain optimistic. Usually, based on the temps over Memorial Day weekend, I would call it a 10-15 days of 100 or more. I've bumped it by 10 due to this "hot spell" we have been in. I am HOPING this is the summer we return to a degree of normalcy
