The previous two summers were even worse.<\/p>\n
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A graph generated by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s “Climate at a Glance” tool shows how the last few years in Travis County have been historically hot. <\/p>\n
The summer of 2023 brought 69 triple-digit days (there were 80 total for that year) and ended up being the second hottest ever recorded.<\/p>\n
The summer of 2022 had been the second hottest on record until then. That summer, we had 67 triple-digit days, 68 for the year. <\/p>\n
The summer of 2022 now ranks as our third hottest on record.<\/p>\n
In fact, of the five summers before this one, only one of them \u2014 the summer of 2021 \u2014 does not rank within the top 10<\/a> hottest recorded in Austin.<\/p>\n That\u2019s probably one reason this summer may have felt like a welcome respite. It was still unusually hot; it just wasn’t apocalyptically so.<\/p>\n 2011 remains Austin’s hottest summer, and year, by most metrics.<\/p>\n How this summer stacks up<\/p>\n With a few days left in August, the summer of 2025 looks like it will qualify as the 25th or 26th warmest when it comes to average temperature.<\/p>\n But there are other ways to slice the data.<\/p>\n According to meteorologist Mack Morris with the National Weather Service in New Braunfels, this summer will likely be the 39th warmest when it comes to the average daily high temperatures.<\/p>\n In fact, we went the whole month of July without hitting triple digits, a rare occasion in Austin of late.<\/p>\n But this summer will rank around the 16th warmest when you look at average low temperatures. That shows how things didn\u2019t cool off very much at night, likely thanks to the high humidity from June and July rains.<\/p>\n As far as triple digits go, we’ve had 16 so far this year. Two of those were in May \u2014 before summer even started.<\/p>\n That\u2019s more triple-digit days than the historical average<\/a>.<\/p>\n