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Hottest early summer days in St. Louis since 1985
Tuesday marked just the fifth time St. Louis reached 102 degrees or hotter in June since 1985.
Date | High |
---|---|
June 28, 2012 | 108 |
June 29, 2012 | 106 |
June 30, 2012 | 105 |
June 25, 2024 | 103 |
Though the season only officially began last week, it's already feeling like mid-to-late-summer in St. Louis.
The high temperature in St. Louis hit a record 103 degrees on Tuesday afternoon, and while we've seen hotter weather in recent history, it's almost never this hot this early in the summer.
According to data from the National Centers for Environmental Information, St. Louis has hit 103 or higher before the start of July just seven times since 1938.
This is the earliest we've reached 103 or higher since June 20, 1953.
In the brutally hot summer of 2012, St. Louis saw highs of 105, 106 and 108 June 28-30.
The weather caused numerous heat deaths that year.
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Tuesday's high topped the old record of 102, reached on this day in 1954, another year remembered for brutal heat here.
The city's hottest temperatures usually occur in July and August.
The city's first triple-digit temperature last summer didn't happen until nearly a month later, July 27.
Mercifully, rain began to move through late Tuesday afternoon and temperatures quickly dropped as a cold front that will bring temperatures down to more seasonable levels arrives.
Wednesday's forecast high of 88 is more in line with normals, which would be the coolest day in more than a week.
The heat, however, is forecast to return in July, starting with a forecast high of 99 next Tuesday.
The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center forecasts above normal temperatures for the start of July.
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Meteorologist Sean Sublette explains that even on an 80-degree day, the inside of a car reaches 120 degrees in less than an hour.