All-Time Hottest Month at Lubbock and Childress, Texas

After setting a record for all-time hottest month in June, Lubbock, Texas has duplicated that feat by setting a new record in July. This means that 2 of the hottest months in history have now occurred this year. It was also an all-time record hottest month in Childress.

The 34 days with 100°+ temperatures at Lubbock so far this year now exceed the previous record year of 1934 by 5. The 66 days at Childress are in 3rd place, just 5 behind the 1934 record.

The 18 days with lows of 75°+ at Lubbock have now nearly doubled the previous record of 10 in 1978 and 1966. The 36 days at Childress are in 2nd place.

From the National Weather Service:

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR JULY 2011 AT LUBBOCK   
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 86.0 DEGREES. THIS NOT ONLY MAKES JULY   
2011 THE HOTTEST JULY ON RECORD...BUT ALSO MAKES JULY 2011 THE   
HOTTEST MONTH EVER ON RECORD FOR LUBBOCK. TEMPERATURE RECORDS FOR   
LUBBOCK BEGAN IN 1911.    
  
THE PREVIOUS HOTTEST JULY ON RECORD WAS 85.4 DEGREES IN 1966...AND   
THE PREVIOUS HOTTEST MONTH EVER ON RECORD WAS 85.9 DEGREES WHICH   
OCCURRED JUST LAST MONTH JUNE 2011.   

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR JULY 2011 AT CHILDRESS MUNICIPAL   
AIRPORT WAS 90.2 DEGREES. THIS NOT ONLY MAKES JULY 2011 THE HOTTEST   
JULY ON RECORD...BUT ALSO MAKES JULY 2011 THE HOTTEST MONTH EVER ON   
RECORD FOR CHILDRESS.     
  
THE PREVIOUS HOTTEST MONTH ON RECORD WAS 89.0 DEGREES IN JULY 1934.  

Childress records began in 1893.