Record heat and triple-digit temperatures are back in Phoenix forecast

PHOENIX – It’s nearly November, but sweater weather will have to wait. That’s because record heat and triple-digit temperatures are back in the Phoenix forecast.

After a too-short stretch of relatively mild weather in the Valley, temperatures are on the rise again.

The warming trend started Tuesday, when it reached 95 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which the National Weather Service (NWS) uses for the city’s official readings.

What is the Phoenix forecast through the weekend?

The Phoenix forecast calls for highs in the upper 90s on Wednesday and Thursday, just below the record levels for those dates. However, the daily heat records of 96 degrees for Friday and 98 for Saturday are in danger of being toppled.

“The records are a little bit lower on Friday and Saturday, and actually our forecast temperatures are a little bit higher,” Chris Kuhlman of the NWS in Phoenix told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Wednesday morning. “So, both days it looks like we’re forecasting 2 degrees warmer than what the records are.”

Phoenix also will challenge the record for the latest date with temperatures of at least 100 degrees. The mark stands at Oct. 27, which is coming up Sunday.

That record is safe, but barely, if the latest Phoenix forecast of 100 degrees for Saturday and 99 for Sunday holds up.

Fall hasn’t provided much relief from record heat in Phoenix

The Valley hasn’t had much time to recover from an unprecedented 21-day streak of record heat that ended last week.

In addition, Phoenix is well on its way to its hottest October on record in a year that already had the hottest June and September.

“We’re far enough ahead that there’s really nothing that’s going to stop it from being the record warmest,” Kuhlman said. “When the end of the month is tallied up, we’ll end up having the hottest October on record.”

KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Jim Cross contributed to this report.

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