On this day in 1930, the temperature soared to a calendar-day record high of 96 degrees. It was the second straight record-hot day and the fifth in a row to reach 90 degrees or higher. It was the last 90-degree day in a blistering summer that delivered 54 90-degree days and a record 11 days in the triple digits. The season was also accompanied by the area’s worst drought ever observed.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 77
- Average low: 60
- Record high: 96 (1930)
- Record low: 38 (1879)
- Record rainfall: 2.25 inches (1902)
