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Sun May 8, 2022, 09:39 PM May 2022

Temp Records Fall Across Texas W. 5/7 Temperatures As High As 112F; Coming Week More Of The Same

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Abnormally hot weather scorched not only Texas on Saturday. Searing temperatures into the 90s also spread over parts of Colorado and New Mexico. In Arizona, Phoenix reached the century mark for the first time this year.

Here is a list of some of the notable records that were set Saturday:

107 degrees: Abilene, Del Rio and San Angelo, Tex.
106 degrees: Childress, Tex.
102 degrees: Lubbock, Tex.
101 degrees: San Antonio and Amarillo, Tex. — the earliest date ever recorded hitting the century mark in Amarillo.
98 degrees: Dalhart, Tex.
96 degrees: Corpus Christi, Tex.
91 degrees: Colorado Springs.
89 degrees: Denver.
87 degrees: Galveston, Tex.




The mercury soared as high as 112 degrees at Rio Grande Village near the border with Mexico in West Texas, according to Maximiliano Herrera, an expert on weather extremes.

While unrelated to the heat in Texas and the Southwest, South Florida also baked Saturday, with record highs in Miami (93, tying 2021) and Fort Lauderdale (93).

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/05/08/texas-record-heat-midwest/
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Temp Records Fall Across Texas W. 5/7 Temperatures As High As 112F; Coming Week More Of The Same (Original Post) hatrack May 2022 OP
Lucky for Texas that Global Climate Change is a HOAX. Otherwise, NCjack May 2022 #1
As long as you elect Republicans, things will not change. OAITW r.2.0 May 2022 #2
The GOP assholes in Texas only care about two things....power and money...drill, baby, drill. walkingman May 2022 #3
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