Tuesday, June 7, 2011

How Does The Recent Heat Stack Up?

Since May 30th through yesterday, we've been in a bit of a hot streak recording high temperatures of 91º, 91º, 86º, 81º, 88º, 97º, 82º, and 90º at LAF...for an average of 88.3º So how does this compare to past hot streaks using the same dates? We'll use the WL COOP for this exercise, with data going back to 1901, and only daytime high temperatures.

1) 96.0º - 1934 (includes all time June record of 104º on 6/1)
2) 91.9º - 1925
3) 91.4º - 1942
4) 86.8º - 1933
5) 86.5º - 1919, 1988, and 1991

I guess it's not a fair fight to compare LAF and the WL COOP for various reasons, but this just gives a historical context to the recent high temperatures.

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