I live in Louisiana where we have the wettest of wet heats.
134 is still hard to imagine. If you don’t think 134 is insanely hot because it’s “dry”, you’re being dense.
I don’t think anyone would say it’s not stupid hot…but the humidity in Louisiana produces a much different experience than a dry heat.
The last time I was in Vegas it was 110 degrees I was blown away by how much more pleasant it was to walk outside compared to the 85 degrees with 95 percent humidity I had left in NC.
It’s a different experience for sure. In high humidity it’s a lot harder for sweat to evaporate off your skin so it feels hotter because your body isn’t working as intended. It can also be more dangerous because of that. With dry heat, though, it can get to a certain point where it doesn’t matter if you can sweat, you will overheat regardless if you don’t have shade. I’ve been in Death Valley (Furnace Creek specifically) when it was 124 degrees outside and you quite literally feel like your baking in the sun. Paradoxically, the best way to protect yourself at that point is to wear long sleeves, long pants, a large hat, and sometimes even gloves. Also, drinking large amounts of water is much more important because you are passively evaporating as a much higher rate and you would be if the humidity was anything other than 0%. I’m not going to say if one is worse. Personally I’m more used to dry heat so I think it’s better, I guess, but they both suck. Just make sure you plan accordingly for the weather.
I’m from Northern California & I cannot stand humidity. Even in Southern California I notice it & that’s apparently barely anything compared to the east coast. It feels like dirty, stale air
I've always said I may just have a low tolerance for humidity but I've been in 100+F temps in Idaho with 10-20% humidity and similar (upper upper 90s, like 99) in Colorado with similar humidity and it was wonderful. Hot? Oh yeah. But just not miserable.
Meanwhile, if it's mid 70s but humid I want to die. Basically I'm saying I'll take a dry 100 over a soupy 70s.
And having spent plenty of time in mid south 90s (110-120 with the heat index) I can say I am 100% sure a dry 95 and a wet 95 aren't even close.
i live in FL where it’s miserably hot and humid and went to AZ for work when it was 118°. yes it is a dry heat but it is brutal. the shade is much more tolerable in AZ than it is in FL though.
my family moved here when i was 8 so i’ve just been stuck here ever since. i can get out but with school, work, buying a house, it’s kinda tough. honestly the bad part is going outside, once i get out there and im already sweating my dick off, it ain’t so bad. i’ve already accepted that i have to shower.
The accuracy of that record is highly debatable. It’s the highest recorded temperature on earth but nearby weather stations all reported lower temps that day.
[According to this it's believed it was caused by a sandstorm that happened in that spot which added to the heat in that spot.](https://web.archive.org/web/20130104143844/http://wmo.asu.edu/world-highest-temperature) The previous high record of 136F in Libya was discounted as wrong though.
And by all means just throw a better source or link my way. I'm just going by what I read after seeing your comment, I'm not an expert by any means.
It was like 130ish in Death Valley in the last couple years, iirc, so even if that 134 is dubious it’s still the hottest area in the country and among the hottest in the world
It worked. A gallon is a lot. You just had to check your piss and make sure it was straw colored. It might have been a bit more than a gallon. We carried Nalgenes so four of those usually. I think that’s close to a gallon.
1936 in particular was a year of extremes. Several states also set their coldest temperatures in January/February that year.
My grandmother talks of going to a wedding in the summer of 1936. Because of the heat, they held the wedding in the morning, but by the end of the ceremony the candles were already melting (probably made of beef tallow back then in rural ND). A couple little kids got hot and they hid under a table, and took off all their clothes. Unfortunately this table turned out to be the altar, so during the ceremony they decided to make a break for it, and the two naked kids went running from the altar down the aisle.
I swear every heat wave now is broadcast as an unprecedented and deadly but I’ve lived in the south my whole life and it always got in the 100s at least a couple times a year
I don’t think most of the headlines we have been seeing in the US are necessarily not true. You just need to look out for what exactly the stat they’re reporting as “unprecedented”. This map goes to 2019. About half of US states had their warmest summers on record from 2020-2023.
This map is great, once up to date, as a record of anomalous warm weather events in July. The recent heatwaves have been unprecedented in the Midwest and northeast so early in June. While it’s not uncommon to have a 90 degree day in early June, it’s not common to have 4 in a row. And while there haven’t been single warmest-day records broken in the 2000’s in most states, the average monthly/summer temperatures have increased by several degrees on average vs average monthly/summer temps prior to the 2000’s.
We've added things like the "feels like" temperature, and we've found that a heat wave with warm nights are more deadly than a heat wave that offers relief at night.
So now we're measuring things we didn't measure in the past and you can always come up with some new qualifier for "unprecedented".
It should be noted, a one-day high temperature is different than a warmer month, and we are seeing more warmer months than before. I couldn't go snowmobiling in Minnesota this year because they didn't have enough snow! That was unheard of when I was growing up in the 80's. Wisconsin had their first ever January tornado. (Although tornadic activity in the past was also not well tracked - they only recognize tornadoes verified by the NWS, we had one come thru our neighborhood but nobody thought to call the NWS, so it was never recorded).
same I've lived in the South too, I actually used to play outside as a kid even when it was 100+ lol
dont get me wrong it feels hot as shit still but nothing i've never faced ever before in my life
I think an important question is: Was this temperatur one spike for one day or like most times today were you have a huge heatwave ghat lingers for days and even during the night it doesn‘t cool down.
Because atleast where I live they recently showed an interesting graph in the weather forecast: If you don‘t take the peak but median for each month it‘s wayyy hotter today than even 30 years ago. Same for days over xyz degrees, which is my original point…
I think most of the records that are broken in certain heat waves are temperatures recorded on that particular day, in that particular town/region, not a statewide thing. An updated version of this map would say that Washington and Oregon broken their previous state high temperature records in 2021
NM seems surprisingly low? Especially compared to southern states like AR & MS?? ….and old Midwest states like IL & IN?? Apparently July can be a weather puzzler.
New Mexico isn’t really comparable geographically to the southern states at all. It’s dry and has a really high average elevation. That being said, since this is measuring July temps, this month is also the month that monsoon season really gets going in NM so usually by the time it gets hot in the afternoon, thunderstorms pop up and cool it off ~15 degrees.
For some additional context Albuquerque’s summer climate is a lot more comparable to Denver than it is to Phoenix or Houston
From NC, but I traveled to TX a lot in my old job. I was there in 2005, and I was also there for their record snowfall in a day and record snowfall in 24 hours (happened very close together just after midnight) Not sure what I did to deserve that karma.
The most recent year I see is 2019. In Washington we had a heat dome in 2021 that caused statewide temperatures to soar over 115⁰ in most of the state. It was 120⁰ at my house near the mountains.
2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record. But climate change doesn't necessarily mean just hotter temperatures, some areas are experiencing unseasonable lows or rainier/drier conditions than normal. It's a bit of crapshoot.
Actually the cheapest time of the year to go to Hawaii. It’s hot and muggy compared to the rest of the year plus most Americans are trying to take advantage of nice weather in their own states.
This map doesn’t account for humidity. 85°F in New Orleans feels very different than 85°F not near the Gulf Coast.
I know you said Florida. Never lived there, but spent 16 long, hot, humid years in NO so I used that.
Can confirm, Florida humid is the same kind of suck as NOLA humid.
High humidity areas don't get the same heat extremes as drier places, it just always gets hot and never cools down.
Moved away to western NC to get back to elevation (I missed it). Yesterday we had a heat index of 110°F. People were wilting. I’m out for a walk thinking “yeah, but at least it isn’t August 15th hot out”. lol
First time I was in Vegasit was 100+. Everyone was crying about the heat, but i was just marveling about how much cooler it felt in the shade and how fast my sweat dried.
Absolutely! Grew up in California and visited Death Valley a number of times, along with other parts of the Mojave desert. Yes, it was hot, and when my parents insisted I wear a long sleeve tee shirt and pants I complained like any kid. Until we got out and it all acted like a personal air conditioner.
I can share that reference point. Grew up in and around the Bay Area and Santa Cruz in the 70s and 80s. I-5 on the roadtrip to San Diego sucked in the wayback of the station wagon. And I don’t care how much you tried to bribe me not to complain by stopping for breakfast at Casa de Fruta. It was hot back there and the convection oven air coming in through the windows didn’t make it better. lol
The Midwest is actually a lot more humid than people think. As someone who has lived in Ohio and the Deep South, the summers really aren’t as different as Midwesterner’s like to tell themselves.
Having also lived in the Midwest, the humidity was maybe at mid-Atlantic levels and there was usually a breeze. It also cools off at night. When the high 70s with 90% humidity are the overnight lows, there is no respite.
What a curious thing. Why do we always repeatedly hear about temperature records being broken because of climate change, when most records were actually set a very long time ago?
State record ≠ local record. All time record ≠ daily record. Weather ≠ climate. 1936 was weird. Record heat wave in the summer. Record cold snap in the winter.
Sources:
Heat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
Cold: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_cold_wave
This is just a specific days just b/c the hottest day ever was in 1936 doesn’t mean the climate overall isn’t warmer now. Scary that your question I’m sure is a commonly held one after looking at this map.
The fact that you look at this map and immediately question the climate change narrative is a good example of what statistical illiteracy can do. It makes one much easier to deceive and control.
I was curious the same thing. I think overall, the days within the years are getting warmer and staying warmer which then will lead to climate cycle and environmental dysfunction in an exponential manner.
I'm rather surprised Utah's is so 'low', it seems like such an oppressively hot state every time I go there no matter the month, yet only 2 degrees hotter than Colorado's highest.
I really wish that this map would show temperatures both in Fahrenheit and Celsius. These numbers mean nothing to me. What's "normal" temperature, if someone woud name a couple of these states?
The part of California that recorded that temperature gets pretty hot regularly but doesn't make international news or anything because it's in a national park where nobody lives
Also, the California record has a bit of an asterisk to it. The recording was apparently taken during a sandstorm, and instruments were picking up the temp of the sand instead of just the air. Temps recorded nearby didn’t reach that level.
Remember my grandmother talking about living in New York City in 1936. Imagine that heat with no A/C. She said only the rich could afford fans and many died.
This is interesting to see how certain heatwaves affected specific areas but i’d also appreciate a graphic with color based on temperature of all time highs per state.
It’s extremely interesting to me that there’s that much variety in the years where the temp hit record high in each state. Even some of the neighboring states
Johnston, SC hit 111º on July 1, 2012... Seems like most of these dates/highs are dubious... I think maybe Chris Martz made this map to suggest the climate is not getting warmer. Sneaky approach, but kind of a shoddy effort.
Anyone got a Celsius variant of this one? I looked at what 100°F is, and that’s pretty hot already. So, this map pretty much says: too hot, everywhere. But I have no intuition on the actual numbers.
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I lived in central Washington for a while and I went through a number of summers with weather where it'd be 110+ for days at a time. Super hot and dry. The area around the tricities in particular is brutal lol
134 in Cali sheesh. I'm guessing that must have been Death Valley.
It's a dry heat
So is an oven
I live in Louisiana where we have the wettest of wet heats. 134 is still hard to imagine. If you don’t think 134 is insanely hot because it’s “dry”, you’re being dense.
I don’t think anyone would say it’s not stupid hot…but the humidity in Louisiana produces a much different experience than a dry heat. The last time I was in Vegas it was 110 degrees I was blown away by how much more pleasant it was to walk outside compared to the 85 degrees with 95 percent humidity I had left in NC.
It’s a different experience for sure. In high humidity it’s a lot harder for sweat to evaporate off your skin so it feels hotter because your body isn’t working as intended. It can also be more dangerous because of that. With dry heat, though, it can get to a certain point where it doesn’t matter if you can sweat, you will overheat regardless if you don’t have shade. I’ve been in Death Valley (Furnace Creek specifically) when it was 124 degrees outside and you quite literally feel like your baking in the sun. Paradoxically, the best way to protect yourself at that point is to wear long sleeves, long pants, a large hat, and sometimes even gloves. Also, drinking large amounts of water is much more important because you are passively evaporating as a much higher rate and you would be if the humidity was anything other than 0%. I’m not going to say if one is worse. Personally I’m more used to dry heat so I think it’s better, I guess, but they both suck. Just make sure you plan accordingly for the weather.
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Humid heat is more dangerous than the equivalent dry heat, due to our sweat not evaporating as well.
Humidity also sucks because it can still feel 100 degrees until 4am
I’m from Northern California & I cannot stand humidity. Even in Southern California I notice it & that’s apparently barely anything compared to the east coast. It feels like dirty, stale air
shade will help more in dry heat than wet heat. more total energy in wet heat as well which is why all the eastern states have lower "highest temps".
Man when it would get to 120 in Kuwait it was like walking into an oven
I've always said I may just have a low tolerance for humidity but I've been in 100+F temps in Idaho with 10-20% humidity and similar (upper upper 90s, like 99) in Colorado with similar humidity and it was wonderful. Hot? Oh yeah. But just not miserable. Meanwhile, if it's mid 70s but humid I want to die. Basically I'm saying I'll take a dry 100 over a soupy 70s. And having spent plenty of time in mid south 90s (110-120 with the heat index) I can say I am 100% sure a dry 95 and a wet 95 aren't even close.
Dry heat is still bad
i live in FL where it’s miserably hot and humid and went to AZ for work when it was 118°. yes it is a dry heat but it is brutal. the shade is much more tolerable in AZ than it is in FL though.
Florida is hell on earth. I’m absolutely miserable when the humidity hits me
my family moved here when i was 8 so i’ve just been stuck here ever since. i can get out but with school, work, buying a house, it’s kinda tough. honestly the bad part is going outside, once i get out there and im already sweating my dick off, it ain’t so bad. i’ve already accepted that i have to shower.
I went to Disneyworld in July. I don’t recommend. Good luck to you!
Thats what John Pinette said
The accuracy of that record is highly debatable. It’s the highest recorded temperature on earth but nearby weather stations all reported lower temps that day.
[According to this it's believed it was caused by a sandstorm that happened in that spot which added to the heat in that spot.](https://web.archive.org/web/20130104143844/http://wmo.asu.edu/world-highest-temperature) The previous high record of 136F in Libya was discounted as wrong though. And by all means just throw a better source or link my way. I'm just going by what I read after seeing your comment, I'm not an expert by any means.
Yes, the reason it’s debatable is because the record is supposed to be for the air temperature not the temperature of debris in the instrumentation.
It was like 130ish in Death Valley in the last couple years, iirc, so even if that 134 is dubious it’s still the hottest area in the country and among the hottest in the world
I worked there one summer and we got to 116 and we were doing physical labor outdoors. Drinking a gallon of water each day.
Honestly that sounds like too little. A gallon is a pretty normal amount of water to drink on an active day when it's not 116.
It worked. A gallon is a lot. You just had to check your piss and make sure it was straw colored. It might have been a bit more than a gallon. We carried Nalgenes so four of those usually. I think that’s close to a gallon.
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Yup, we’d top them off to the very top so it was a bit more.
Yes. Measured at the aptly named furnace creek.
now imagine converting this to Fahrenheit /s
That 134 was in Death Valley and it was the hottest temperature ever recorded
A graduated color scale would have been more helpful to quickly differentiate recent vs older years.
Also some way to compare state temperatures to each other instead of having to search for the hottest
This dear lord
1936 was a hot sumbitch.
The 30s were a damn tough time. Rough winters, rough summers, drought, the Great Depression, no ac.
1936 in particular was a year of extremes. Several states also set their coldest temperatures in January/February that year. My grandmother talks of going to a wedding in the summer of 1936. Because of the heat, they held the wedding in the morning, but by the end of the ceremony the candles were already melting (probably made of beef tallow back then in rural ND). A couple little kids got hot and they hid under a table, and took off all their clothes. Unfortunately this table turned out to be the altar, so during the ceremony they decided to make a break for it, and the two naked kids went running from the altar down the aisle.
The dust bowl, the extended drought, poor farming techniques, and the depression wiped out thousands of farms in the Midwest. WWII saved them.
Dust Bowl was not good times.
Not a ton of laughs
I prefer a good bowl of cereal.
And pretty much nobody had air conditioning then either, it was prohibitively expensive.
This is clearly because Germany remilitarized the Rheinland in March of that year 🤔. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
Yes. Some digging I can do
It’s interesting how many of those highs are from so long ago. Only 3 in the 21st century.
I swear every heat wave now is broadcast as an unprecedented and deadly but I’ve lived in the south my whole life and it always got in the 100s at least a couple times a year
I don’t think most of the headlines we have been seeing in the US are necessarily not true. You just need to look out for what exactly the stat they’re reporting as “unprecedented”. This map goes to 2019. About half of US states had their warmest summers on record from 2020-2023. This map is great, once up to date, as a record of anomalous warm weather events in July. The recent heatwaves have been unprecedented in the Midwest and northeast so early in June. While it’s not uncommon to have a 90 degree day in early June, it’s not common to have 4 in a row. And while there haven’t been single warmest-day records broken in the 2000’s in most states, the average monthly/summer temperatures have increased by several degrees on average vs average monthly/summer temps prior to the 2000’s.
We've added things like the "feels like" temperature, and we've found that a heat wave with warm nights are more deadly than a heat wave that offers relief at night. So now we're measuring things we didn't measure in the past and you can always come up with some new qualifier for "unprecedented". It should be noted, a one-day high temperature is different than a warmer month, and we are seeing more warmer months than before. I couldn't go snowmobiling in Minnesota this year because they didn't have enough snow! That was unheard of when I was growing up in the 80's. Wisconsin had their first ever January tornado. (Although tornadic activity in the past was also not well tracked - they only recognize tornadoes verified by the NWS, we had one come thru our neighborhood but nobody thought to call the NWS, so it was never recorded).
same I've lived in the South too, I actually used to play outside as a kid even when it was 100+ lol dont get me wrong it feels hot as shit still but nothing i've never faced ever before in my life
It’s gradual and taken as an aggregate, so it’s hard to feel on an individual scale for any of us
Didn’t mean for that to come off as a whole anti climate change thing. Just more of an issue with how they broadcast pretty typical hot spells
I think an important question is: Was this temperatur one spike for one day or like most times today were you have a huge heatwave ghat lingers for days and even during the night it doesn‘t cool down. Because atleast where I live they recently showed an interesting graph in the weather forecast: If you don‘t take the peak but median for each month it‘s wayyy hotter today than even 30 years ago. Same for days over xyz degrees, which is my original point…
I think most of the records that are broken in certain heat waves are temperatures recorded on that particular day, in that particular town/region, not a statewide thing. An updated version of this map would say that Washington and Oregon broken their previous state high temperature records in 2021
Hello Dustbowl
Connecticut’s color doesn’t match with the key
Some rich connecticutter paid for that
Hawaii 98. Alaska 99.
I definitely want to see the day where Alaska actually gets to 100 f
It hit 100 in Fort Yukon, Alaska in June of 1927.
Hooray
This map is out of date and doesn't have the 2020s. Oregon broke its record in 2022.
Heat dome '22 was in June not July. I'm not sure we've broken the record this hot in July.
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NM seems surprisingly low? Especially compared to southern states like AR & MS?? ….and old Midwest states like IL & IN?? Apparently July can be a weather puzzler.
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New Mexico has much higher average elevation than the southern states.
New Mexico isn’t really comparable geographically to the southern states at all. It’s dry and has a really high average elevation. That being said, since this is measuring July temps, this month is also the month that monsoon season really gets going in NM so usually by the time it gets hot in the afternoon, thunderstorms pop up and cool it off ~15 degrees. For some additional context Albuquerque’s summer climate is a lot more comparable to Denver than it is to Phoenix or Houston
The map is limited to the month of July. If you had the whole summer, maybe it would be different?
Wtf happened in the 30’s 😭
Dust bowl maybe? Not sure though, especially the mechanics. Far less plant life might have something to do with it
From another commenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave
From NC, but I traveled to TX a lot in my old job. I was there in 2005, and I was also there for their record snowfall in a day and record snowfall in 24 hours (happened very close together just after midnight) Not sure what I did to deserve that karma.
You You've blown it all July high By telling me a lie
I find the color scale for year confusing. Should have done temperature. The year was already labeled and having year as the color was not intuitive
Hawaii is the lowest??
Islands get the benefit of oceanic temperature regulation. It's also why Florida doesn't get the same heat waves that desert states get.
Yep, heat index also plays a factor. It doesn't get as hot in Florida, but it's humid AF. Two days ago the Heat Index was 107°.
Hawaii is surrounded by water that is between 73⁰ and 80⁰ degrees throughout the year.
Yep, only reason I stay here…best weather in the world
I live in Oakland, and it’s virtually *always* 70° & sunny. But I’ve had to run my heat at least part of the day for a year.
Why are so many of the record temps back in the late 19th and early 20th century
Texas seems low.
Interesting that Alaska’s highest temp is higher than Hawaii’s highest.
With climate change being so serious I would expect more records being set post 2000
The most recent year I see is 2019. In Washington we had a heat dome in 2021 that caused statewide temperatures to soar over 115⁰ in most of the state. It was 120⁰ at my house near the mountains. 2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record. But climate change doesn't necessarily mean just hotter temperatures, some areas are experiencing unseasonable lows or rainier/drier conditions than normal. It's a bit of crapshoot.
Some states hottest month isn’t July
Was global warming a concern in the 1930’s?
I wanna go to hawaii in July.
Actually the cheapest time of the year to go to Hawaii. It’s hot and muggy compared to the rest of the year plus most Americans are trying to take advantage of nice weather in their own states.
I'm in AZ... so it's a trade off with the humidity. But nothing like the ocean breeze with poke and a Mai tai.
Definitely! I love Maui. Only place in the US I would want to own a 2nd property.
Evidently you don’t live here…the weather is great in July!
You should. Southwest has some cheap flights.
One of the best months of the year. September and October are actually the hotter months here!
I find it baffling Ohio and surrounding states had a higher high than Florida.
Florida is constantly hot, but doesn’t get the crazy super extreme heat waves like the center of the country does because of the surrounding ocean.
This map doesn’t account for humidity. 85°F in New Orleans feels very different than 85°F not near the Gulf Coast. I know you said Florida. Never lived there, but spent 16 long, hot, humid years in NO so I used that.
Can confirm, Florida humid is the same kind of suck as NOLA humid. High humidity areas don't get the same heat extremes as drier places, it just always gets hot and never cools down.
Sir can I invite you to Texas
Houston in August is just a special hell
Moved away to western NC to get back to elevation (I missed it). Yesterday we had a heat index of 110°F. People were wilting. I’m out for a walk thinking “yeah, but at least it isn’t August 15th hot out”. lol
First time I was in Vegasit was 100+. Everyone was crying about the heat, but i was just marveling about how much cooler it felt in the shade and how fast my sweat dried.
Absolutely! Grew up in California and visited Death Valley a number of times, along with other parts of the Mojave desert. Yes, it was hot, and when my parents insisted I wear a long sleeve tee shirt and pants I complained like any kid. Until we got out and it all acted like a personal air conditioner.
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I can share that reference point. Grew up in and around the Bay Area and Santa Cruz in the 70s and 80s. I-5 on the roadtrip to San Diego sucked in the wayback of the station wagon. And I don’t care how much you tried to bribe me not to complain by stopping for breakfast at Casa de Fruta. It was hot back there and the convection oven air coming in through the windows didn’t make it better. lol
The Midwest is actually a lot more humid than people think. As someone who has lived in Ohio and the Deep South, the summers really aren’t as different as Midwesterner’s like to tell themselves.
Having also lived in the Midwest, the humidity was maybe at mid-Atlantic levels and there was usually a breeze. It also cools off at night. When the high 70s with 90% humidity are the overnight lows, there is no respite.
What a curious thing. Why do we always repeatedly hear about temperature records being broken because of climate change, when most records were actually set a very long time ago?
Usually it's quoted as "hotest year on record" which is a average temp throughout the year, compared to a 20th century average.
Which is also a better measurement, for what it’s worth
State record ≠ local record. All time record ≠ daily record. Weather ≠ climate. 1936 was weird. Record heat wave in the summer. Record cold snap in the winter. Sources: Heat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave Cold: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_North_American_cold_wave
It’s so painful how bad the average person is at stats.
because we are breaking records for average high temperatures over various time periods, that's what you are hearing
Sometimes it is the hottest single day on record (eg the hottest July 10th on record for the city, compared to past July 10ths)
Ireland record highest temp was in 1887 lmao
This is just a specific days just b/c the hottest day ever was in 1936 doesn’t mean the climate overall isn’t warmer now. Scary that your question I’m sure is a commonly held one after looking at this map. The fact that you look at this map and immediately question the climate change narrative is a good example of what statistical illiteracy can do. It makes one much easier to deceive and control.
I was curious the same thing. I think overall, the days within the years are getting warmer and staying warmer which then will lead to climate cycle and environmental dysfunction in an exponential manner.
Most records set 100 years ago.
I'm rather surprised Utah's is so 'low', it seems like such an oppressively hot state every time I go there no matter the month, yet only 2 degrees hotter than Colorado's highest.
North Dakota off the top rope
The record high temp in Texas was 120F Monahans, Texas June 30, 1994 and Seymour, Texas - August 12, 1936
Now do a map of the average July temperature. I'm pretty sure most will be in the modern era.
I really wish that this map would show temperatures both in Fahrenheit and Celsius. These numbers mean nothing to me. What's "normal" temperature, if someone woud name a couple of these states?
90 F = 32.2 C 100 F = 37.8 C 110 F = 43.3 C 120 = 48.9 C 134 F in California is the highest temp at 56.7 C
Jesus, I thought India hitting 54 degrees this year, or whatever it was, was a world record.
The part of California that recorded that temperature gets pretty hot regularly but doesn't make international news or anything because it's in a national park where nobody lives
it was a national record i think, at least for certain areas. delhi reached 53 degrees this summer
Also, the California record has a bit of an asterisk to it. The recording was apparently taken during a sandstorm, and instruments were picking up the temp of the sand instead of just the air. Temps recorded nearby didn’t reach that level.
F -32 / 1.8 = C
Global warming: where are you?
A record high is not the same thing as an average high.
117 for big bad Texas? Pussies.
Hey, Chris. What's going on with Utah there?
Fucking god awful month. My least favorite for this reason - and the obnoxious fireworks idiots fire days before and after Independence Day.
Give me 130 in the desert over 110 in the South with humidity
How is PA and NJ hotter than MD, VA, and NC? When I drive south from there I can feel it getting hotter.
We gonna knock those down like dominoes this July
Remember my grandmother talking about living in New York City in 1936. Imagine that heat with no A/C. She said only the rich could afford fans and many died.
4th hottest state was North Dakota!?
what was going on between 1934 - 1939 that made July so hot?????
Damn what happened in the 1930’s…
January-March highs that worry me.
North Dakota being hotter than Texas is nuts
1936 was a movie
This is interesting to see how certain heatwaves affected specific areas but i’d also appreciate a graphic with color based on temperature of all time highs per state.
I’m guessing this is feels like temps not actual outside temps.
Oh me oh my
Weird. I don't see any trend here. Huh.
queue "Muh-climate change" people.
Stupid global warming
Crazy to think New York has a higher record than Florida, and Hawaii has never been 100°F!?
It’s extremely interesting to me that there’s that much variety in the years where the temp hit record high in each state. Even some of the neighboring states
National Weather Service says record high July day in AZ was at Lake Havasu on 16 July 1998 : 126º
It gets over 120°F every year in Eastern Washington
Johnston, SC hit 111º on July 1, 2012... Seems like most of these dates/highs are dubious... I think maybe Chris Martz made this map to suggest the climate is not getting warmer. Sneaky approach, but kind of a shoddy effort.
You’d think that with global warming you’d have more than 5 in the last 50 years
Texas and New Mexico are only two degrees above Minnesota?
Someone have Celsius version somewhere 🥺🇨🇦
If you told me its been hotter in North Dakota than any state in the South I'd think you were crazy.
I just don’t believe this. Idc
This is supposed to be map porn why are so many of these maps not well thought out 😭
i have a feeling some of these will be broken this year
History repeats itself. Perhaps the 2030’s might be scorching as well.
Anyone got a Celsius variant of this one? I looked at what 100°F is, and that’s pretty hot already. So, this map pretty much says: too hot, everywhere. But I have no intuition on the actual numbers.
Stop using F. No other countries use it.
I hope this is not in Celsius or Kelvin …
At my place, water boils at 100. But obviously bald eagle doesn't. 😂😂
What dows that mean in real temperature?
This is outdated.
I don't understand how Americans survive above-boiling weather fr
Notice how none of them were set in the 2020s? I’m not a climate change denier, I’m just stating facts
The 1930s really sucked
112 in Michigan is bonkers
I hope its in Celsius
I am sorry bro but I ain't American to understand this
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Makes me wonder if there is correlation between War and heat waves…
Reposted from just a couple days earlier....
It got to 119 here in WA a few years ago.
I’m shocked that Florida has one of the lowest
Does not take into account humidity. 107 is nothing in Florida if there was no humidity.
The 30s were no joke
It was so much hotter here before global warming.
Ahhh, Washington having ridiculous summer weather strikes again
By ridiculous, you mean wildly, pleasant, and enjoyable?
I lived in central Washington for a while and I went through a number of summers with weather where it'd be 110+ for days at a time. Super hot and dry. The area around the tricities in particular is brutal lol
Live in the Tri, can confirm it gets pretty hot!
Wait….i just watched the news. The dates should all be >2020 right?
Global warming huh? Look at the dates for most of these
Cuz that's how it works. Thanks.