To paraphrase FDR, today, September 13, 2011 is a date that will live in infamy. Summertime has come back to Dallas for one last hurrah, and today we break the record making this our hottest year ever. Today will be the 70th day this year that temperatures have made it into triple-digits. (We normally have 16 days per year at/over 100.) I hope this isn't the "new normal".
On top of that, because our overnight low temperatures remained so warm (in the mid-to-upper 80's) in August, Texas has taken the record from the 1950's Dust Bowl Oklahoma as having the hottest month EVER recorded in the US, based on average temperature.
Now for the trifecta: The drought we're now in is the most severe since such statistics began being kept in 1895. AND our drought is expected to last into 2012.
I'm surprised bookies aren't taking bets on what's coming next: earthquake, volcanic eruption, or swarming locusts. Hahaha!
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Burning up! Fall comes tomorrow. Today it is 88 and sunny. I'm going for an open water swim....
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing "Congratulations" on your record is not what you want to hear... ;-)
ReplyDeleteThere's a first for everything.
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