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Late June/Early July Extreme Heat Episode


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HUF got clocked with a drought busting 0.00

Must have missed the reporting station. Someone reported tree limbs down with 45 mph winds and rain to NWS at 4 PM. It did look like a nice, but small cell right over the city on radar.

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Maximum temperatures in Indiana today.

Huntingburg*: 108º

Bloomington: 106º

Terre Haute: 106º

Evansville: 105º

Indianapolis: 105º

Shelbyville: 105º

Goshen: 104º

Fort Wayne: 103º

Lafayette: 103º

Indianapolis Eagle Creek: 102º

Peru/Grissom: 102º

Zionsville: 101º

Kokomo*: 100º

Muncie: 100º

Valparaiso: 100º

South Bend: 99º

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Updated with today's temperatures.

An update since the madness started. Maximum temperatures at the four longstanding Indiana stations since June 28. EVV being the epicenter.

® indicates daily record tied or broken.

Evansville

June 28: 107º ®

June 29: 107º ®

June 30: 106º ®

July 1: 105º ®

July 2: 103º ®

July 3: 97º

July 4: 103º ®

July 5: 107º ®

July 6: 104º ®

July 7: 105º

Fort Wayne

June 28: 106º ®

June 29: 94º

June 30: 90º

July 1: 94º

July 2: 93º

July 3: 95º

July 4: 101º ®

July 5: 101º ®

July 6: 101º ®

July 7: 103º ®

Indianapolis

June 28: 104º ®

June 29: 103º ®

June 30: 97º ®

July 1: 95º

July 2: 98º

July 3: 98º

July 4: 102º

July 5: 103º ®

July 6: 105º ®

July 7: 105º ®

South Bend

June 28: 100º

June 29: 87º

June 30: 89º

July 1: 92º

July 2: 93º

July 3: 94º

July 4: 100º ®

July 5: 100º ®

July 6: 102º ®

July 7: 99º

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The Wyandotte wunderground station did hit 99.5, so 100F today, but that was 2 hours before DTW did (DTW was 97 at that time). By the time DTW briefly rose to 100F (97F the hour before and 93F the hour after) it was down to 90F here. Very odd to see a 10F difference between here and DTW, though I suspect NE wind off the water was culprit. So DTW did squeak out two 100F+ days in this spell, though just one record high (July 4th) and both 100F days came after the "official" heatwave had ended (thanks to those two convectively induced days that stayed in the 80s). All in all, nowhere near as impressive as the dustbowl-esque heat that hit JUST to our south/west, but clearly the most impressive heat Ive seen here since Ive been paying attention to the weather.

Since June 27th, 9 of the 11 days hit 90F+ (5 of those 9 were 95+, and 2 of those 9 over 100+). Sweet relief is here!

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So very weird and somewhat spooky, but if we take the maximum temperatures of these past 10 days and the hottest 10 day stretch of July 1936, both for Evansville...both average out at 104.4º.

June 28, 2012: 107º.....July 6, 1936: 97º

June 29, 2012: 107º.....July 7, 1936: 106º

June 30, 2012: 106º.....July 8, 1936: 103º

July 1, 2012: 105º.....July 9, 1936: 104º

July 2, 2012: 103º.....July 10, 1936: 104º

July 3, 2012: 97º.....July 11, 1936: 103º

July 4, 2012: 103º.....July 12, 1936: 107º

July 5, 2012: 107º.....July 13, 1936: 108º

July 6, 2012: 104º.....July 14, 1936: 106º

July 7, 2012: 105º.....July 15 1936: 106º

Average maximum temperatures

1936: 104.4º

2012: 104.4º

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Highest maximum temperatures in recorded history for Evansville (1897-present), Fort Wayne (1897-present), and Indianapolis (1871-present).

Evansville

111º on 7/28/1930

108º on 7/13/1936, 7/26/1930

107º on 6/28/2012, 6/29/2012, 7/5/2012, 7/12/1936, 7/22/1901, 7/27/1930

106º on 6/30/2012, 7/7/1936, 7/12/1930, 7/14/1936, 7/15/1936

105º on 7/1/2012, 7/7/2012, 7/14/1954, 7/27/1952, 8/8/1930, 8/9/1930

Fort Wayne

106º on 6/28/2012, 6/25/1988, 7/14/1936, 7/22/1934

104º on 7/8/1934, 7/13/1936, 7/21/1934, 7/24/1934

103º on 7/7/2012, 7/12/1936, 7/14/1954, 7/25/1934

Indianapolis

106º on 7/14/1936, 7/21/1934, 7/22/1901

105º on 7/6/2012, 7/7/2012, 7/10/1936, 7/24/1934, 7/25/1934

104º on 6/28/2012, 7/8/1936, 7/11/1936, 7/14/1954

103º on 6/29/2012, 7/5/2012, 7/4/1911, 7/9/1936, 7/12/1936, 7/13/1936, 7/15/1988, 7/15/1936, 7/20/1934, 7/22/1934, 7/30/1940, 8/5/1918

102º on 7/4/2012, 6/25/1988, 6/26/1954, 7/23/1934, 7/30/1913, 8/16/1988

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It looks like Chicago/ORD missed the best opportunity to tie/break the all time record high today.

Could very well have ended up around 105/106 given the environment and area highs.

And LAF could have had 18"+ in the GHD storm if the mid levels were a bit cooler.

:baby:

:P

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Not a fair fight, for a couple/several of reasons, but a comparison of this past/current heat wave versus July 1936 (in all cases the max hottest 10 days for that month) for Bloomington, Evansville, Indianapolis, and Terre Haute.

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Final recap on the heatwave of June 27-July 7th. Only one record temperature for Detroit (July 4th high of 102F), and the "official" heatwave was only 6 days (June 27-July 2) due to the two days stuck in the 80s. Detroit also recorded just its 35th (July 4th) and 36th (July 7th) day of 100F+ since records began in 1871.

6/27: 90/60

6/28: 99/67

6/29: 94/69

6/30: 95/68

7/01: 93/66

7/02: 94/67

7/03: 85/72*

7/04: 102/71

7/05: 86/69*

7/06: 98/74

7/07: 100/75

7/08: ITS OVER!!!

So far on the year, we have had 16 days if 90F+ at DTW, 2 of which were 100F+. The first year to have 2 or more 100F+ days since 1988.

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One more 100 degree day at CVG (Cincinnati). 5th in this remarkable 11-day stretch.

Thursday June 28th: 101

Friday June 29th: 101 (record)

Saturday June 30th: 98 (tied record)

Sunday July 1st: 96

Monday July 2nd: 95

Tuesday July 3rd: 94

Wednesday July 4th: 99

Thursday July 5th: 99 (tied record)

Friday July 6th: 104 (record)

Saturday July 7th: 104 (record)

Sunday July 8th: 100

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LOT has an update page dedicated to the main portion of the heat wave (July 1-7th):

http://www.crh.noaa....=85072&source=0

ORD High/Low temps:

6/27: 92/57

6/28: 100/76

6/29: 88/69

6/30: 92/69

7/1: 91/68

7/2: 98/71

7/3: 96/77

7/4: 102/79

7/5: 103/79

7/6: 103/82

7/7: 98/73

RFD High/Low temps:

6/27: 93/58

6/28: 100/74

6/29: 88/67

6/30: 93/65

7/1: 93/66

7/2: 98/71

7/3: 97/75

7/4: 102/75

7/5: 102/74

7/6: 104/77

7/7: 105/74

MBY High/Low Temps:

6/27: 91/58

6/28: 98/74

6/29: 89/67

6/30: 90/68

7/1: 92/70

7/2: 97/72

7/3: 95/74

7/4: 100/76

7/5: 102/74

7/6: 102/81

7/7: 100/72

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Not a fair fight, for a couple/several of reasons, but a comparison of this past/current heat wave versus July 1936 (in all cases the max hottest 10 days for that month) for Bloomington, Evansville, Indianapolis, and Terre Haute.

Interesting how the 1936 heat wave had warmer nights.. with lows a good 5-10F warmer than this year, many 80F or higher which would have been deadly with the limited AC people had back then. I've always wondered what the dewpoints were like in that 1936 stretch. I would have thought that drought conditions that year (and much of the early 1930s) would have resulted in fairly low dewpoints during the 1936 heat wave (perhaps 60F or less) to produce those high temperatures. But perhaps not given those warm lows. Anyways, this shows that the 1936 heat wave still maintains its "granddaddy" title. What an epic heat wave that was.

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Interesting how the 1936 heat wave had warmer nights.. with lows a good 5-10F warmer than this year, many 80F or higher which would have been deadly with the limited AC people had back then.  I've always wondered what the dewpoints were like in that 1936 stretch.  I would have thought that drought conditions that year (and much of the early 1930s) would have resulted in fairly low dewpoints during the 1936 heat wave (perhaps 60F or less) to produce those high temperatures. But perhaps not given those warm lows.  Anyways, this shows that the 1936 heat wave still maintains its "granddaddy" title. What an epic heat wave that was.

Hard to know what dewpoints were like but I think part of the reason for the warmer overnight lows back then is simply due to site location. A lot of the official obs in 1936 were in/near the downtowns of cities. Nowadays a lot of the official obs come from the fringes of a city.

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