Posts tagged: temperature facts

Phoenix: Record Setting 118º!

30 July 2020 - Posted in Weather Records by Weather Bus

The high temperature at Phoenix Sky Harbor at 4:40 pm on July 30th hit a sweltering 118º. This broke the record high for the day of 115º, set all the way back in 1934. But this was not the only record broken.

This will now go down as the latest day in a year with a high temperature of 118º+. The old record was July 28th set in 1995.

And yes, having a high temperature of 118º is very rare. In fact, since records began in 1896, the high temperature has only been 118º+ a total of 18 times!

Two Phoenix Milestones Just Days Apart

20 April 2020 - Posted in Weather Facts by Weather Bus

It's that time of year when all the great Phoenix winter weather bragging begins to fade away, and we enter the sweat zone.

The forecast is calling for Phoenix to break the 90º mark for the time this year on Wednesday (April 22nd) and 100º on Sunday (April 26th).

If the forecast pans out, it will only be four days between the first 90º and 100º days. This would tie as the third shortest time-space between these two milestones. In 1994, they were just one day apart (April 15th and April 16th). And in 1988, they were three days apart.

The thirty-year average is just over a month apart, with the average 90º day being March 31st and the first 100º day on May 2nd.

On the other hand, the furthest apart these two events have been was 83 days which occurred in 1904 (Feb 24th & May 17th) and 1972 (Mar 5th - May 27th).

Stay cool!