yes recently read an article about this.

Capital Weather Gang had an article about this. This summer is similar to 2010-2012 summers. The last couple summers were really pretty mild for DC. I think of this hot summer as sadly being more typical for the area. I hate it.

Hottest July yet.

Feels hotter to me w heat indexes and warnings of 105-110 with humidity added. I’ve never experienced worse.

Anonymous wrote:The last couple summers have been relatively mild. But I don't think this is unusually hot so much as unusually dry. The summer I moved here (20 years ago) it was easily this hot, but it rained every evening at 5 pm on the dot.

Yes. Last summer in particular just didn’t even ever feel like “summer”. No traditional heatwaves like we typically get.

This summer seems pretty normal, temps wise, but the drought is bad.

The last couple summers have been relatively mild. But I don't think this is unusually hot so much as unusually dry. The summer I moved here (20 years ago) it was easily this hot, but it rained every evening at 5 pm on the dot.

Anonymous wrote:The high was only 81 on July 1. It was a lovely day. It’s been a steady climb since then, but it didn’t go over 90 until July 4. Less than a week ago.

That's most of July, plus 2 weeks of June.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/dc/washington/KDCA/date/2024-6

feels like it to me, OP. But every summer I think "this is the hottest summer yet." We are going to Canada next week for a couple of weeks, thank god. Jealous of people who have a second home somewhere cooler and manage to get out for the entire summer.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The high was only 81 on July 1. It was a lovely day. It’s been a steady climb since then, but it didn’t go over 90 until July 4. Less than a week ago.

Alternate reality?

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/weather/100-degrees-dc-area-heat-wave-shatters-nearly-40-year-record/

Does that article refute anything I wrote?

This was forecast months ago. Pay attention. We go to Quebec to avoid it.

Lots of websites that will show you temps throughout past Julys. I’m clicking around wunderground.com right now and it’s pretty interesting. It appears that it’s always been hot in July in DC.

Anonymous wrote:The high was only 81 on July 1. It was a lovely day. It’s been a steady climb since then, but it didn’t go over 90 until July 4. Less than a week ago.

Alternate reality?

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/weather/100-degrees-dc-area-heat-wave-shatters-nearly-40-year-record/

The high was only 81 on July 1. It was a lovely day. It’s been a steady climb since then, but it didn’t go over 90 until July 4. Less than a week ago.

We're being punished for such a lovely May/early June. It's sweltering!

Seems like July has had 90s+ temps daily. I've lived here for 12 years and don't recall July being this hot for such a long time. Weather forecast appears to continue to show 90s+, even reaching 100 next week.

Am I just not remembering past summers incorrectly, or is this the hottest July for the past 10 years?