On this date in 2011, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record of 104 degrees. The minimum temperature of 80 degrees was also a record high.
That July was a particularly brutal month, with an average temperature of 84.5 — the highest on record.
“The high temperature was at least 90 on 25 occasions, the most on record,” I wrote at the end of the month. “When the July 29 temperature hit 104 degrees, it was the highest reading since 105 on August 17, 1997, and it tied for the fifth-hottest in the books. On July 22, the heat index — a measure of the combined heat and humidity — reached 121 degrees, the highest level since 122 on July 16, 1980.”
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 89
- Average low: 73
- Record high: 104 (2011)
- Record low: 58 (1920)
- Record rainfall: 2.34 inches (1877)
