Michigan Hits Record 101 Degrees! What Do You Think About This Heat?
Hey Michigan—Arizona called and wants its weather back. Ha! Record temperatures in Michigan Tuesday had everybody sweating and talking about this summer's unusually hot weather. What did you think? Will August be this bad?
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This has been the hottest summer in a long time.
Temperatures hit 101 degrees Tuesday in Southeast Michigan, and an excessive heat warning was issued for the region. At 7 p.m. it was still 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
The heat wave marks the hottest July 17 in metro Detroit since 1887, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The hottest day on record for the region is 105 degrees. That record was hit on July 24,1934.
The good news? The NWS says a cold front from the north will slowly drop through the entire southeast Michigan region by early Wednesday morning. It'll be windy, but cooler! Look for temps in the 80s the rest of the week.
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey
7:23 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
It was so hot ... (fill in the blank)
Jenny Whalen
9:47 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Reader Julie Pfahlert Mohr shared this one on Facebook: (It was so hot) I've started swimming in the pool I bought for my dog!!! I seriously considered running through the sprinklers today.
Jenny Whalen
11:11 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Going to throw my southern friend under the bus here. He lives in Houston and thinks us Michiganders are "weak" when it comes to the heat. Says we're overreacting with this weather. What say you?
Sharon
11:52 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Just remember to remind your Houston friend about being weak when it snows down in Houston - people in Michigan know how to deal with the winters!!
Edward Cardenas
11:16 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
We had some great responses on the Facebook page for St. Clair Shores Patch: https://www.facebook.com/stclairshorespatch/posts/443212765724113?notif_t=feed_comment
Stephen Kiluk
11:52 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
I would attribute the abundance of record high temperature days to climate change dues to human fossil fuel emissions. We have had some of the hottest summers in recorded history the last few years and the average annual temperature really seems to be on the rise.
http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2009/06/story.php?id=7502
http://www.gcrio.org/NationalAssessment/greatlakes/greatlakes.pdf
Rich
11:52 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Actually, Channel 4 news said that we broke the record at 102.
Sue Czarnecki
3:37 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
This heat is taking a toll on my clowning. Most of my gigs are outside, and the other day
my spirit gum failed me & my clown nose fell off. Very embarrassing.
DJG
3:37 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
It was so hot, Detroit City Council started to make sense...
Dave
9:04 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
you are delirious still DJG but that was funny!
Jim Rutkowski
4:38 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012
I wonder how the people in 1886 explained the high temperature. Must have been climate change caused by horse flatulance.
Terri Brosky
9:04 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
We can talk about climate change until we're blue in the face, but we can't pretend it's not happening, for whatever reason. The glaciers ARE melting and they're not going to "re-freeze" unless we have another ice age. I doubt the human race will survive that.
Rene Bellis
9:04 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
I hate it. I restore furniture and can't work when it's this hot as it affects how fast my polyurethane dries. Plus, it's hard to see what you're doing when the sweat is literally pouring into your eyes. I long for a 75° day! I love summer, I love warm, but I hate hot & humid!! Enough is enough.
Cindy
9:04 am on Thursday, July 19, 2012
LOL I thought the same thing, Jim, without the horse problem....LOL