South Texas Was Hotter than Death Valley Last Week
It is not exactly breaking news to say that Texas gets hot in the summer. So far in June, though, South Texas has gone from its usual “melt into a puddle of sweat and sunscreen” temperatures and moved all the way over to “like walking on the surface of the friggin’ sun.” On Friday, the temperature in Brownsville clocked in at a staggering 104 degrees, the hottest June temperature the city since at least 1878, when they started keeping records of such miserable things. (The all-time high of 106, according to to Weather.com, was set back in 1984—in what sounds like an extremely unpleasant late March.)
Temperatures were even higher—although perhaps not record-breaking—across South Texas. McAllen hit 106, Laredo 109. The heat index (or “feels like” temperature) in Brownsville, though, was even more shocking, with a downright absurd, albeit unofficial figure of 128 degrees. How hot is that? It’s so hot that the National Weather Service maps don’t even have a color on their charts to represent it:
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Look at that map. It looks like all of the color walked out the door in Brownsville, began feeling their skin crackle and their faces melt like the bad guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and thought, “Nope, I don’t need to go anywhere today after all,” and went right back inside, where they curled into a cozy ball next to their fan or air conditioning vents. (Of course, not all of Texas is sweltering in precisely the same way. On Sunday—while McAllen was sweating it out at 104 degrees—Amarillo was faced with a high of 61.)
How hot has it been in South Texas? Last week, if you wanted an escape from the stifling heat, you could have had a nice time going to Death Valley.
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