broke another record here today... 103 over an 89 year old 101. it's been commonplace to tie or break records for most of a fortnight, now. here's the rundown for august so far:
day avg record(yr) 2007
wed 01 92 107(1999) 95
thu 02 92 105(1898) 93
fri 03 92 101(2006) 89
sat 04 91 103(2006) 95
sun 05 91 102(1980) 100
mon 06 91 104(1956) 101
tue 07 91 103(1878) 104**
wed 08 91 102(1999) 103**
thu 09 91 102(1878) 106**
fri 10 91 100(1999) 108***
sat 11 91 102(1999) 102*
sun 12 91 103(1999) 95
mon 13 91 103(1999) 103*
tue 14 90 102(1999) 103**
wed 15 90 101(1918) 103**
thu 16 90 103(1954) 103*
fri 17 90 103(1954) 105**
sat 18 90 102(1999) 96
sun 19 90 103(1983) 96
mon 20 90 105(1983) 100
tue 21 90 108(1983) 101
wed 22 90 107(1983) 105
thu 23 89 104(1968) 92
fri 24 89 103(1968) 97
sat 25 89 99(1968) 96
sun 26 89 100(1959) 97
mon 27 89 102(1954) 92
tue 28 89 99(1998) 94
wed 29 89 101(1990) 96
thu 30 89 102(1948) 95
fri 31 88 100(1998) 89

so far... 7 new record highs (**), 3 ties (*). 1 new high is a tie of the august monthly and all-time station record ( *** ).

forecast has a couple more days near 100 then cooling off in the weekend and next week. gfs is showing the ridging persisting, though, with 500mb heights over 594dm but for a brief respite around sunday... and little precip in the area. after a week they start to fall back to normal and the ridge is shown dying out. whether this will work out with a hurricane pumping it... and considering the tendency of models to generalize features past a few days... i wouldn't be surprised if the heat keeps dragging on. gotta admit, though.. the records get tough to break next week. i'll update this thread with the actual numbers as august plods on.

okay, that's it for august... pretty telling that the only day of the month the temperature wasn't above normal was august 3rd. think we just scored the hottest august for the station.

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