How Hot Was It?
Bruce Melton
Update September 9, 2023
It was the hottest and driest summer ever recorded at Austin Bergstrom and driest at Austin Mabry since 1910. The ten hottest summers Austin has ever recorded have all occurred since the Super El Nino of 1998.
• This meterorological summer, June-July-Auguist, tied the Super El Nino year of 2011 for hottest average temperature at 89.5 degrees.
• 2023 saw 42 days at 105 or above smashing the old record in 2011 of 26 days.
• Total 100 degree or hotter days in 2023 is 78 on September 9.
August 23, 2023
• The average number of days at 100 degrees or above in our old climate in Austin was 10.5.
• The National Weather Service’s (NWS) 30-year average 1991 to 2020 is 29 days.
• The 5-year 2022 average is 47 days.
• Currently (August 23, 2023) we are in fourth place at 61 days with no relief in site in the 14-day forecast.
• We broke our above 105 record of 9 consecutive days in 2011 this year by 2 degrees, twice.
• Yesterday ended our new 2023 days above 100 degrees record of 45 consecutive days at 100 or more.
• The previous consecutive 100-degree day record was 27 in 2011.
• 2022 saw the hottest July ever.
• 2023 saw the hottest July ever, again.
• 2011 hottest August ever and hottest month ever.
• 90 degree days record 164 days in 2022, tied with 2011*
• Annual 100 degree days:
2011 – 90 days
1925 – 69 days
2022 – 68 days
2009 – 68 days
• August average temp to August 23, 2023, 91.7, ties with 2011 at 91.7 for the entire month.
• 30-year 1991 to 2020 NWS average August temperature 86.5.
• 2000 and 2011 maxed at 112 degrees for the all-time record Austin temperature.
• 2023 saw only 110 so far – widespread across the Hill Country, not just the urban heat island. |
