Phoenix’s streak of daily record heat continues Wednesday
Oct 9, 2024, 3:33 PM
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PHOENIX — Phoenix continues to show off as Wednesday made it 16 days in a row for daily record heat.
The thermometer at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which the National Weather Service (NWS) uses for the city’s official records, hit 104 degrees at 2:22 p.m. The previous record was 103 degrees, set in 1996.
Phoenix has broken daily heat records 14 times and tied two more since the streak began on Sept. 24.
How many more daily record heat marks will fall in Phoenix?
Daily record highs likely won’t stop any time soon. Those in the Valley shouldn’t expect the long string of 110-degree days they saw during summer, but it’s still an unusually hot fall. Thus, the daily highs are getting lower due to the fact that fall has begun — but heat records are still breaking due to the rarity of this autumnal heat wave.
The latest forecast calls for highs that match or break the heat record each day through at least Monday.
Before this streak, Phoenix had never had more than seven straight days of record heat. Phoenix also had never reached 110 degrees after Sept. 19 in any year but has now done so four of the first eight days of October in 2024.
An excessive heat warning that spanned a record 14 days and was extended multiple times finally expired Tuesday evening.