Nearly every place weather records are kept along the Gulf Coast just saw its hottest August on record.
ran from Central Texas to the Florida Panhandle region. Some places, such as Baton Rouge and nearby Fernwood, Miss., saw average monthly temperatures 9 degrees above normal. Cities that saw average August temperatures at least 8 degrees above normal included Austin, Houston, Mobile and Jackson, Miss.weather historian Don Sutherland. Locations that had their hottest month on record included Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Tampa.In some cases, August records were broken by large margins.
These figures are a stark reminder that the heat was not only excessive but also had remarkable longevity.Meteorological summer — defined as June through August and typically the three hottest months of the year — is now behind us.Numerous locations along the Gulf Coast region, and some to the west, saw their hottest meteorological summer in addition to their hottest August. Among them? Miami, Key West, Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston and Brownsville.
June, July and August were each the hottest on record in Baton Rouge. Miami’s maximum heat index, a measure of how hot it feels factoring in humidity, averaged at least 105 degrees each day in both July and August,University of Miami meteorologist Brian McNoldy. The heat index was at or above 105 for 170 hours, three times the previous record, McNoldy noted.
And to illustrate just how utterly insane this summer has been here, this chart shows the annual number of hours spent at a 105°F+ heat index. That's 170 hours *so far* this year... the old record was 49 hours. No, it's not "just summer". [2/2]
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