TheHeat

Noteworthy records, anomalies, readings — and why they matter. UTC times.

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Pikine, Senegal hit 33.9°C (93°F) in July — a new monthly high in 30 years of records, 0.7°C above the 2023 mark. In the Sahel's sharp wet-dry cycle, July sits at the cusp of the rainy season; heat records here say the rains are arriving into a warmer baseline.

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Portland, Oregon hit 39.4°C (103°F) today — 12.1°C above its July normal. Seattle ran 8.7°C above its own normal the same afternoon. Two Pacific Northwest cities built around cool marine summers, both deep inside heat ranges the coast is not designed to moderate.

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Tunis hit 45.2°C today — 12.4°C above its July normal of 32.8°C. Across 10 cities on four continents, every anomaly on today's leaderboard sits 8.6°C or more above normal; heat this far from seasonal average has stopped arriving one city at a time.

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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan hit 40.2°C (104°F) on July 17 — edging the previous 30-year archive high of 40.1°C set earlier this same year. A Central Asian capital in a continental interior basin: the Tian Shan ring the city and trap summer heat with little airflow to release it.

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Powderville, Montana hit 114°F (45.6°C) on July 12 — hottest daily maximum in 63 years of records, 4°F above the 2002 mark. Eastern Montana's high plains sit deep in the continental interior, with no marine layer and no terrain to interrupt heat building across the open steppe.

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Oslo hit 32.7°C today — 10.4°C above its July normal of 22.3°C. A Scandinavian capital's afternoon running like a southern French summer is what a warmer baseline looks like at high latitudes.

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Randolph, Utah hit 100°F (37.8°C) on July 12 — hottest daily maximum in 134 years of records, 3°F above the 1893 mark. At 6,300 feet in the Bear River Range foothills, high-desert elevation normally bleeds off the heat that pools across the Great Basin floor.

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Ontario is burning at 2,374.8 MW — very-high-intensity, satellite-confirmed. Two nearby fires in the same region registered 883.7 and 817.1 MW the same day. Three simultaneous signals above 800 MW in one Canadian afternoon.

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Urumqi, China: model-estimated dust daily maximum of 2,254 μg/m³ on July 10 — PM10 averaged 17.7× the WHO 24-hour guideline. The city sits in the Junggar Basin, ringed by the Tian Shan; that topography channels desert sediment in and holds it.

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Amsterdam received 314.1 mm of rain across seven days ending July 7. The city's entire July monthly average is around 75 mm — this single week delivered more than four months' worth.

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Barrow, Alaska received 356.2 mm of rain across seven days ending July 7. Barrow sits on the Arctic Ocean at 71°N, where annual precipitation totals around 110 mm — this seven-day stretch delivered more than three years' worth in a single week.

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Typhoon Bavi made landfall in Eastern China at Category 4 intensity — 135 kt winds. The Western Pacific's warm pool this summer has been deep enough to sustain major typhoon strength almost to the coast.
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Hyderabad, India hit 39.6°C (103°F) on July 7 — a new July high in 30 years of records, 3.4°C above the 2014 mark. July is monsoon season; a reading this far above the old record suggests the city's afternoon heat is outrunning the rains that are supposed to suppress it.

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Centerport, New York hit 101°F (38.3°C) on July 3 — hottest daily maximum in 24 years of records, 2°F above the 2011 mark. On Long Island Sound's north shore, the marine layer normally caps summer heat; breaking 100°F here takes a deeper continental push than most of the region.

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Six French cities have run ~10°C above their 1991–2020 daily normal for three straight days through July 7 — a 2.7σ anomaly, the margin where 'above average' stops describing it. Those cities' afternoons are operating like a different summer entirely.

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Typhoon Bavi went from Category 1 to Category 5 in 24 hours on July 3. Three days later it is still a super typhoon, pushing 54-foot seas toward Taiwan — over water so warm, so deep, that the churning which normally cools a typhoon keeps bringing up warm water instead.

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Millbrook, New York hit 100°F (38°C) on July 2 — hottest daily maximum in 23 years of records, 2°F above the 2011 mark. The Hudson Valley's low elevation and southerly fetch let continental heat arrive largely intact, with little orographic lift to cool it.

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Chennai, India hit 40.3°C (105°F) on July 4 — a new July high in 30 years of records, 0.3°C above the 2025 mark. July is peak monsoon season; when heat exceeds 40°C in that humidity, the wet-bulb load compounds the raw temperature far beyond what the number alone suggests.

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1,468 MW of radiative heat in the Congo Basin, DR Congo — very-high-intensity fire, satellite-confirmed at 100% confidence. The Basin's equatorial moisture normally suppresses fire; when it burns here, something has broken the convective lid.

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Prudhoe Bay, Alaska hit 91°F (32.8°C) on June 26 — hottest daily maximum in 24 years of records, 2°F above the 2024 mark. Prudhoe sits on the Arctic Ocean at 70°N; the same latitude in northern Siberia rarely breaks 80°F even in peak summer.