The numbers are in for July and they are impressive. According to NOAA, this July was the second warmest on record when considering the combined global land and sea temperatures. So far this year, the combined land and ocean temperature is 58.1 degrees making this the second warmest January-July period on record.
Even though we will get a break from the heat & humidity the next few days, Chicago's warm summer continues to break records. Yesterday was the 45th day in a row with a high of 80 or warmer. That breaks the old streak of 42 days in a row set back in 1955.
The scorching heat that prompted advisories and warnings for almost two dozen states last week is now confined to the deep south and the Pacific Northwest. There are only 8 states with advisories or warnings for heat today.
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That might break that record, but how does the heat compare with the Summer of 1995, when the city was hauling corpses in refrigerated trucks, the people dying from the heat so fast? This doesn't seem like that.