Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (night-time records), reported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NOAA indicated, however, that the tally of records collected so far is not complete – more are expected to come in as station data from across the U.S. is forwarded to the National Climatic Data Center. It said the statistics reported on the its temperature map only include weather stations with real-time electronic reporting, which accounts for about two-thirds of the locations. Final numbers are expected to be made available later in August.
The above image plots how many times a heat record was broken or tied in a given location. Some cities reached daily high temperatures 19 out of the 31 days in the month. The largest concentration of these records occur in the southern Plains, Midwest, and Northeast U.S., which were gripped by a series of heat waves pushing heat indices well into the 100’s (Fahrenheit) for many days at a time.
Record July Temperatures In US Documented In NOAA Map - Irish Weather Online
