Arizona's Hottest August on record!
Published: 08/26/2011
Could be the hottest August on record
PHOENIX (AP) - Few would describe summer in Phoenix as pleasant, but this month is turning out to be particularly miserable as it teeters on the brink of becoming the hottest August in recorded history.
The heat has been especially relentless this week as Phoenix broke records for daytime highs on Monday and Tuesday, which reached 114 degrees. That's 10 degrees hotter than the average high for this time of year, and more record-breakers could come Wednesday and Thursday.
The average between the daytime highs and nighttime lows in the area for August was at 97.1 degrees as of Wednesday, putting Phoenix on pace to beat the overall monthly record of 96.2 degrees, set in 2007.
"It would be difficult not to break it at this point," Chris Kuhlman, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said Wednesday. "So far we're a degree above the hottest one." Kuhlman said the earliest the area is expected to "cool down" is next week, when daytime highs will be around 105 degrees.
The excessive heat is being caused by a relatively inactive monsoon and a large upper-level pressure system hovering over the area,
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