07-17-2012 is looking to be our Hottest day
of the summer so far. Forecast is for upper 90s to 100° degrees.
Record for today is/was 94° which was broken at 12:30pm
with a high of 96° officially at the airport.
Syracuse recorded a record high of 101° at about 3:40pm,
smashing the previous record of 94°
My station hit 98.3° at 3:37pm, making that our 2nd highest temp recorded.
July 2012 is almost a carbon copy of July 2011
As of August 9, we’ve seen (25) days of 90° + temperatures.
We have also had a nice run of 80°+ days as well this summer.
Since 06-27-2012, we have seen 23 consecutive days of 80°+ days. Here are
some historic streaks of 80° plus days.
Readings below were taken here and not the official readings from the Airport.
| Day | July 2011 | July 2012 |
| 1 | 84.2 | 87.0 |
| 2 | 90.7 | 86.4 |
| 3 | 87.8 | 90.4 |
| 4 | 87.4 | 95.1 |
| 5 | 89.4 | 84.3 |
| 6 | 90.5 | 95.8 R |
| 7 | 86.0 | 82.5 |
| 8 | 84.7 | 84.6 |
| 9 | 82.6 | 84.3 |
| 10 | 92.7 | 86.1 |
| 11 | 94.8 | 92.2 |
| 12 | 91.0 | 94.5 |
| 13 | 80.8 | 96.2 |
| 14 | 86.5 | 95.4 |
| 15 | 89.4 | 88.6 |
| 16 | 95.5 | 89.3 |
| 17 | 95.7 | 98.3 |
| 18 | 90.0 | 85.4 |
| 19 | 89.2 | 81.0 |
| 20 | 96.1 | 76.4 |
| 21 | 102.2 R | 90.6 |
| 22 | 97.9 | 88.6 |
| 23 | 95.9 | 96.7 |
| 24 | 89.4 | 86.3 |
| 25 | 85.3 | 85.5 |
| 26 | 81.7 | 87.5 |
| 27 | 83.1 | 83.9 |
| 28 | 81.0 | 83.6 |
| 29 | 84.9 | 89.0 |
| 30 | 87.1 | 91.7 |
| 31 | 86.9 | 89.5 |
R See previous post for Record
* 2011 saw a Record High of 102 °F on July 21
Overall mean temp for July
2011 – 76.3°
2012 – 75.2° as of 07-31-2012
*** July Summary ***
2011 Days 90°F or better (12)
Days 80°F or better (31)
2012 Days 90°F or better (11)
Days 80°F or better (30)
| Year | Days | Consecutive 80°+ days |
| 1949 | June 10 – Aug 22 | 43 |
| 1955 | June 28 – Aug 7 | 41 |
| 2011 | July 1 – Aug 2 | 33 |
| 2012 | June 27 – July 19 | 23 |
| 2001 | July 29 – Aug 20 | 23 |
| 2010 | July 3 – July 24 | 22 |
| 1916 | July 11 – July 31 | 21 |
Years 2011 and 2012 are my station readings, other years are from official records.