In Victoria, Texas, it was 97 degrees, outstripping a mark of 96 degrees reached in 1939. Richmond, Va., hit 95 degrees, breaking a record of 93 set in 1962. Vicksburg, Miss., reached 98 degrees, surpassing a record of 94 that was set in 1962. Here are some of the places where the heat exceeded the highest temperatures recorded for May 21.
“That’s not something you see all the time,” he said. Joe Drapeand Joel Wolfram contributed reporting. And heading into Monday, parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas could see excessive rainfall and thunderstorms. “With the forecast continuing to hint at record-breaking heat, and high humidity, this weekend,” the office said in a post on Twitter, “this streak may end.”Įlsewhere in the East, the stretch of heat is expected to fade over the rest of the weekend, though it may be followed by thunderstorms and severe weather, according to the National Weather Service. The agency’s office in Gray, Maine, with a territory covering Maine and New Hampshire, noted that it had never before issued a heat advisory during the month of May. The predicted high of 96 degrees in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday would exceed the monthly record of 94 degrees, set in 2010, the National Weather Service said. “Definitely very abnormally warm temperatures expected tomorrow,” Torry Gaucher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boston, said on Saturday. Though the high on Saturday was 71, the forecast for Sunday is that it could reach 96. In Boston, for instance, the average temperature for the weekend before Memorial Day is typically in the high 60s. In many places, temperatures could be 20 degrees or more above what residents are accustomed to for this time of year. GGuuXGNsY5- National Weather Service May 21, 2022Ībove-average temperatures and drought conditions will contribute to high energy demand and put several parts of the country at elevated or high risk of energy shortfalls this summer, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warned this week. Near record heat across the east with cold temperatures and snow across portions of the Plains and the Rockies. Parts of Texas, where heat-intensified wildfires burned 30 structures near Abilene this week, saw their earliest triple-digit temperatures on record this month.Īnd in a sign of just how strange things could get, Denver whiplashed from 90-degree weather this week to a late-spring snowfall overnight Friday into Saturday.Īmazing temperature contrast across the Lower 48 and southern Canada this Saturday afternoon, May 21 2022. Other blazes are driving evacuations and fears in Colorado, Arizona and Utah. In drought-parched New Mexico, the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history is burning, months before the start of the peak fire season. In other parts of the country, the misery set in weeks ago. With temperatures in the mid-90s at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course, which hosted the Preakness Stakes, the usually rowdy infield was sparse and uncharacteristically sedate in early afternoon, with the biggest crowds found at the water stations or beneath tents or in the shadows cast by concession stands and supply trucks. New York City saw a high of 90 its record for May 21 is 93. Washington, D.C., reached a high of 92 on Saturday afternoon, three degrees shy of its daily record. But by the end of the weekend, more than half of all Americans will have experienced temperatures of 90 degrees or higher from a blast of hot air that started in the Southwest, swept across the eastern third of the country, and will move through New England into Canada. Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, is still more than a week away. A runner in the Brooklyn Half Marathon - where organizers had warned participants of potential heat concerns - died on Saturday morning, though it was not immediately clear if the weather had played a role. In Washington, D.C., officials activated heat emergency plans, opening splash parks and cooling centers.
In West Virginia, public health officials urged people to look out for symptoms of heat exhaustion. Ashley Horowitz, 34, said she had a lot of people come by until her side of the street became bathed in direct sunlight in the early afternoon. At a community sidewalk sale in Philadelphia on Saturday, residents in the Fishtown neighborhood displayed tables of old books, clothing and trinkets they were looking to sell for a little extra cash.
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