Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Early Summer Heat Krushes Kansas Records

9 PM CDT Update: The preliminary final high temperature at Goodland was 107°, smashing the old record by 7°. Other records were tied or broken in Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas.

Location Record Previous Date
AZ Winslow 99 99 1956/1921/1918
Douglas 105 101 1981/1956
NM Albuquerque 101 101 1981
Clayton 101 99 2010 June 10
WY Cheyenne 92 91 1956/1893
CO Colorado Springs 97 93 1956
Pueblo 104 100 2001/1956
Denver 100 95 1956
Burlington 107 102 1918
Yuma 106 100 1956 Unofficial
NE Sidney 96 96 1956
McCook 108 106 1918
KS Goodland 107 100 2001/1953/1952
Hill City 111 106 1953
Garden City 108 102 1953
Dodge City 104 103 1977
Tribune 111 102 2010 Unofficial
Colby 107 104 1918 Unofficial


Original post:
Triple-digit temperatures are crushing temperature records in western Kansas this afternoon. At Goodland, Kansas, where climate records began in 1895, it was 100° on June 11, 2001, which tied a record previously reached in 1953, 1952, and also in some previous years. Today, the temperature broke that record with 101° at 1 pm CDT, 102° the following hour, 105° the next, and retreated slightly to 104° in the current hour.

At Garden City, where a new record of 105° was reported at 2 pm (old record 102° in 1953), the thermometer has kept right on soaring to 108° in the current hour.

More records will be posted as the reports become available.

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