Midsummer 2011 Texas Heat Review: Austin Not Frostin'

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July 15, PM Update: Today's Austin high: 104°. Again. Day 14.

July 14, 9 PM CDT Update: Today's high: 104°.

July 14, 4 PM CDT Update: The temperature at Austin Mabry was 100° at 4 pm. This is the 13th consecutive day with 100° or higher.

July 13, 5 PM CDT Update: The preliminary high temperature at Austin Mabry was 102° at 4:03 pm. The record for the date was 105° in 2009.

July 13, 3 PM CDT Update: The Austin Mabry temperature reached 100° at 3 pm, making this the 12th consecutive day with 100° or higher.

5 PM CDT Update: The preliminary high temperature for today was 102° at Austin Mabry. Bergstrom was 100°.

Original post:
Just 2 years after setting the record for the hottest summer in one of the longest official climate records in the U.S., Austin, Texas has had its second hottest June in history. The average monthly temperature of 87.1° at Austin Mabry was half a degree higher than the June of 2009 which contributed to the hottest summer on record. Three of the last 4 summers have been the top 3 hottest at Austin in a climate history which extends back 157 years to 1854.

The 10 consecutive days of 100°+ temperatures from June 12th to the 21st tied the record from June 2009. With a temperature of 101° at 4 pm CDT today, this is now the 11th consecutive day of 100°+ temperatures beginning July 2.

Here are some more summer 2011 heat statistics for Austin (Mabry and Bergstrom), Del Rio, and San Antonio published today by the National Weather Service:

JUNE 2011 WAS THE 2ND WARMEST JUNE AT AUSTIN MABRY...THE 3RD WARMEST
JUNE AT DEL RIO...AND THE 4TH WARMEST JUNE AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM AND
SAN ANTONIO.

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE FIRST 11 DAYS OF JULY 2011 HAS
BEEN AROUND 2 TO 5 DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE FOR JULY.

THE WARMEST JUNES AT AUSTIN...DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO ARE LISTED 
BELOW...WITH THE YEAR AND AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR EACH JUNE SHOWN.

    AUSTIN MABRY             AUSTIN BERGSTROM

1. JUNE OF 2008  87.4     1. JUNE OF 1953  86.8 
2. JUNE OF 2011  87.1     2. JUNE OF 1998  86.5 
3. JUNE OF 2009  86.6     3. JUNE OF 1956 AND 2008  85.4 
4. JUNE OF 1998  86.4     4. JUNE OF 2011  85.3

     DEL RIO                   SAN ANTONIO     

1. JUNE OF 1953  89.4     1. JUNE OF 1990  87.5
2. JUNE OF 1998  89.1     2. JUNE OF 2008  86.8
3. JUNE OF 2011  88.0     3. JUNE OF 1998 AND 2009  86.3
4. JUNE OF 2001  87.9     4. JUNE OF 2011  86.2
 
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE NUMBER OF 100 DEGREE DAYS SO FAR THIS YEAR 
AT AUSTIN...DEL RIO...HONDO...NEW BRAUNFELS...SAN ANTONIO AND 
UVALDE...AS OF JULY 11TH. 
 
LOCATION                100 DEGREE DAYS     HOTTEST DAY
                         AS OF JULY 11     AS OF JULY 11
 
DEL RIO                        36        106 MAY 28...JUN 17...18 AND 19
UVALDE                         16        108 JUN 17...18 AND 19
NEW BRAUNFELS                  15        105 JUN 18
AUSTIN MABRY                   28        106 JUN 17 AND 18  
AUSTIN BERGSTROM INTL AP       19        105 JUN 18 
SAN ANTONIO INTL AP            10        104 JUN 17 AND 18 
SAN ANTONIO STINSON            30        107 JUN 17 
HONDO                          22        107 JUN 18
 
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE MOST CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS AND MOST
100 DEGREE DAYS OF RECORD IN A YEAR AT AUSTIN...DEL RIO...AND
SAN ANTONIO.
 
LOCATION            MOST CONSECUTIVE              MOST 100 DEGREE
                    100 DEGREE DAYS               DAYS IN A YEAR
 
AUSTIN MABRY      21 JUL 12 TO AUG  1...2001        69 IN 1925
                                                    68 IN 2009

AUSTIN BERGSTROM  23 JUL 27 TO AUG 18...1951        55 IN 2009
                                                    50 IN 1998

DEL RIO           50 JUN 17 TO AUG  5...1980        78 IN 1953
                                                    72 IN 2001

SAN ANTONIO       21 JUL 24 TO AUG 13...1962        59 IN 2009
                                                    36 IN 1998

IN JUNE 2011 AUSTIN MABRY TIED WITH JUNE OF 2009 FOR THE MOST
CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS IN THE MONTH OF JUNE...10...FROM
JUNE 12 TO 21...2011. AUSTIN BERGSTROM HAD 9 CONSECUTIVE DAYS
OF 100 DEGREES IN JUNE 2011...FROM JUNE 13TH TO THE 21ST...ONE DAY
LESS THAN THE JUNE RECORD OF 10 DAYS IN JUNE 2009. DEL RIO IN JUNE
2011 HAD 10 CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS FROM JUNE 12 TO 21. THE
RECORD FOR DEL RIO IN JUNE IS 18 DAYS IN JUNE OF 1953.  SAN ANTONIO
HAD 6 CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS IN JUNE 2011 FROM JUNE 14 TO 19.
THE RECORD NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE 100 DEGREE DAYS FOR JUNE AT
SAN ANTONIO WAS 8 DAYS IN JUNE OF 1980.

FROM JULY 1ST TO JULY 11TH...AUSTIN MABRY HAS HAD TEN 100 DEGREES
DAYS IN A ROW FROM JULY 2ND TO JULY 11TH.  

Image (click to enlarge): Austin, Texas temperatures for 30 days ending July 11, 2011, from Climate Prediction Center/National Weather Service