In case you wondered, triple digits coming back to Phoenix area

PHOENIX — With only two days reaching triple-digit temperatures in the Valley so far this year, some Arizonans may think they’re in for a mild summer.

But Mark O’Malley, a National Weather Service meteorologist, says this isn’t the case.

“Several years within the past decade, we’ve actually only seen a few hundred-degree days in the month of May, but that really doesn’t mean that the summer’s not going to be hot,” O’Malley said.

“All of those years, we ended up with more than 100 triple-degree days for the rest of the summer.”

Another day without reaching 100 degrees. So far this year PHX has only had two 100 degree days. Does that mean we'll have a low number of 100s for the year? Not necessarily. 2008, 2010, 2015,2016 were similar but wound up having over one hundred triple digit days. #azwx pic.twitter.com/CEoCtt8a73

— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) June 3, 2019

He said in 2010, 2015 and 2016, Phoenix only had a handful days in the 100s in May but saw an onslaught of triple digits in June.

O’Malley said it’s unlikely the Valley will see anything near 100 degrees soon, but the next 100-degree day could hit the Phoenix area as soon as Wednesday.

“We will hit 100 degrees several times (this week), and unfortunately, some of the signs show that once we get into next week, we’ll be solidly up near 103, 104, 105 degrees.”

The average temperature for May in #Phoenix was 76.2° or 5.9° below normal and ties with 1998 as the coolest May from 1981 to 2019. We don't often see below average months, much less this far below normal. Find more climate statistics here: https://t.co/8scKbgE8ZW #AZWX pic.twitter.com/9ev7adpw5W

— NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) June 2, 2019

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

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