trescenzi
a day ago
I was curious how extreme this was in comparison to the past. I grew up near Philly so I looked at the Mount Holly historical data set. Since 1996, that’s the cutoff of the data I found, there’s been 4 summers with two 100+ days in a row in them. Zero instances of three in a row. Honestly it’s rare enough I didn’t believe it had ever been over 100. But it does seem like it’s a once every 10 or so years event. I’d already made plans to go to Florida. I guess I’m going there to avoid the heat this year.
Disclaimer: not trying to make a climate statement here just genuinely curious.
rolph
a day ago
you should also cross index that with Relative Humidity, thats what will get you.
high humidity hinders evaporative cooling, and extremely low humidity is dessication. overheated core, vs dehydration
BugsJustFindMe
a day ago
I'm curious which years they were.
trescenzi
21 hours ago
1999, 2006, 2010, 2011. There are others with multiple 100+ days but no others with 100+ in a row.
This is the source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search?datasetid=GHCND
Not all of the stations have temp data so make sure you pick one with what you want.