Summer's Scorching Start: Heat Records Outnumber Cold Records by 10:1; Update: New Records in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Syracuse

5:30 PM Update: The high temperatures of 99° at both Washington National and Baltimore are new records. The high at Washington Dulles of 96° missed by 1 degree.

Other records set or tied (old record in parentheses):

Reading PA        96 (95, 2005)
Atlantic City NJ  98 (tie, 1999)
Allentown PA      96 (94, 1984)
Mt. Pocono PA     91 (88, 1999)
Philadelphia PA   97 (95, 2008)  
Syracuse NY       97 (94, 2005)
Binghamton NY     91 (89, 2005)
Erie PA           92 (91, 2007/1933) 
Newark NJ         99 (97, 1999/1984)
Albany NY         93 (tie, 1984) 
Burlington VT     91 (tie, 2008/1984)
Watertown NY      91 (90, 2007) 

The Central Park NY high of 94° missed the 1933 record by 1 degree.

Original post:
After crushing heat records in the Midwest yesterday, soaring temperatures have now moved eastward. The 98° at both 3 pm and 4 pm EDT in Washington at least ties the record for June 8 set in 1999, and the 98° in Baltimore (BWI) breaks the record of 97°, also from 1999.

For the first week of meteorological summer (June-August), new high temperature records (1,208) have outnumbered low temperature records (115) in the U.S. by over 10:1.

Image (click to enlarge): Month-to-date average temperatures and departures from normal for June 2011