Portland Heatwave – Updated Hot Stats

Just before writing this blog post–I went for a walk.

It was 10:30pm Saturday night and still a rather humid 79 degrees in Portland!

Here are the ‘hot stats’ of this Portland and northwest heatwave. I’ll update these this week!

92 degrees – Portland heatwave day one – Friday June 28, 2013
**Portland’s first 90 degree day of the year
**Hottest Portland temperature since September 7, 2012 (almost 300 days)
**Noon temperature: 78
**6pm temperature: 91
**9pm temperature: 79

88 degrees – Portland heatwave day two – Saturday June 29, 2013
**Likely coolest day of the heatwave
**Noon temperature: 79
**6pm temperature: 87
**9pm temperature: 80
**Record warm low temperatures happened on day two in three places: 58 in Astoria, 61 in Salem & 61 in McMinnville

97 degrees! – Portland heatwave day three – Sunday June 30, 2013
**Noon temperature: 82
**6pm  temperature: 96
**9pm temperature: 84
All this heat—and NOT a record—Record to beat was 100 degrees, back in 1942
**Eugene tied it’s record high for the date by hitting 96 degrees

91 degrees – Portland heatwave day four – Monday July 1, 2013
**Noon temperature: 78
**6pm temperature: 89
**9pm temperature: 79

Was this record breaking heat for Portland?

Nope. Our records for this week are 97-105 degrees. And that 97 degree high was on the wrong day to even tie a record. Oh well, maybe next time!