Two years ago we went the entire summer, the entire YEAR, January 1 - December 31, never touching 90 degrees.
The story below says that officially this year hasn't done it yet either!
It's been over 90 practically every day since I got to North Carolina, with several days in the 100's. I really have a feeling that a Wisconsin summer is going to feel like a breeze to me in the future
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It has, at times, been warm, muggy and sweaty this summer.
But it hasn't yet been 90 degrees.
The official temperature in Milwaukee hit 88 degrees four times last month - July 15, 16, 17 and on Wednesday. But the temperature at Mitchell International Airport hasn't gotten any closer to that sweltering mark, according to the National Weather Service in Sullivan. In Madison, the temperature reached 88 degrees in July 16, but no 90.
There are still plenty of chances for the temperature to hit 90 degrees this summer, with the next real chance coming Sunday or Monday. But the last summer Milwaukee didn't reach 90 degrees was in 2000. Before that, 1915.
In Madison, the temperature didn't reach 90 degrees in 2004, but before that, the last summer without such sweltering heat was 1924.
Meteorologists at the weather service say several factors could be keeping the temperature down, but part of it may be the ground's fault. So much rain fell in June that the soil is saturated, the forecasters say. When the temperature hits the 80s, that moisture evaporates relatively quickly and keeps the air from heating more.
Also, thunderstorms developed several times last month and cooled the air when the temperature threatened to break out of the upper 80s.
A couple days ago, the actual temperature here was in the 70's, but it was mid 90's with the heat index!
Regardless, I'm sure we've hit the 90 mark.
Though JR, you are on to something. While everyone around here was getting flooded, we were in Florida during a heat wave. So we started out the summer with as hot as it would probably get around here, so now anything here doesn't seem so bad.
