Hottest day in Houston's history (109F)

[phantom power]

The mercury hit 109°F (42.8°C) yesterday at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, tying September 4, 2000 as the hottest day in the city's history. Yesterday was the also the hottest August day on record in Houston, besting the 108°F reading of August 18, 1909. This year, Houston has set its record for all-time hottest temperature, most 100° days in a year (36, old record was 32, and 4 is normal), and most consecutive 100° days (24, old record was 14.) Weather records in Houston go back to 1889. Houston needs 20.18" of rain to get to normal levels of rainfall for the year. Today's high is predicted to be 107°F in Houston, so yesterday's record may be in danger of being broken today. By the end of the week, Houston is expected to cool down below 100°, and a weather pattern conducive for bringing summer rains will move in.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1907

[rurallib]

1. wow - Houston has high humity also, doesn't it

any idea what the THI is? Moorhead, Minnesota had a THI of an unbelievable 134 in late July.
Surprising there aren't many deaths related to this.

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. Shhheezzz. Where do Minnesotans go to get away from the heat?

n/t

[TygrBright]

11. To the Lake, of course. There's a few of them to choose from.

heheheheh...

As someone who grew up in Minnesota in an era before air conditioning was common, I remember sleeping on the porch with the fans on in the summertime. My Mom would dampen sheets and throw them over us, then turn the fans on and hope we cooled down enough to get to sleep. Going to the Lake was one way of trying to beat the heat of the crowded, paved-over city streets. We'd stay in a cottage with primitive plumbing on a wooded lakeshore and fight off the mosquitoes instead.

I am SO happy in the high, dry desert now...

amusedly,
Bright

[Harmony Blue]

2. Global climate change creates larger variations from the norm temperatures

This is a very dangerous pattern we are seeing.

[kentauros]

5. I'm not so sure this is simply due to large variations.

We've had a high-pressure "dome" on top of the state for pretty much the entire summer. It's been rare to see clouds, much less rain, for months on end. I'll watch the water-vapor satellite loops on NOAA, and it just swirls all around the state's borders, and hardly ever ventures inside. So, we cook and cook and cook.

These temps are the hottest we have had all summer, and right after we actually got some rain last week. It's like someone's taking revenge on us for having the audacity to cool down for a couple of days :P

[kentauros]

3. Yeah, I saw that this morning.

I'm getting tired of having to remain inside all the time, and never get any sun (without walking into a literal oven!)

I read in the Austin-American Statesman that they tied a record yesterday, with a high of 112F :o

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/austin-ties-all-time-high-112-degrees-1802560.html

[Uben]

4. 109 is their high?

Damn, I live 300 miles north of houston and we've beat 109 ...... this year!

[ret5hd]

6. houston has the gulf to moderate its temps.

[kentauros]

8. We also get "cooling" breezes off of the Gulf.

That's also why houses were built on piers so long ago and oriented in such a way as to take advantage of those breezes. Further inland, the breezes die off and don't carry any cooler temps. So, your temps are going to be higher unless you get some storms. Our forecast for the week shows us getting a 50% chance on Thursday and Friday. I don't know if any of that will be for the interior of the state, though.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Wow - and the TexaBaggers (R) are still in denial about reality

Kinda pitiful about them RepubliCons and their sucker-stooges, the Freepers & the Baggers.

[kestrel91316]

9. 109F? Yawn......

We hit 109 and higher every summer.

Now 119F, that's OUR record high where I sit (Los Angeles County - San Fernando Valley - 1/2 mile from my office).