Another heat wave brought record-breaking temps to Virginia yesterday, July 24, 2010. Capital Weather Gang reports:
Thankfully the District’s fourth 100-degree afternoon of 2010 has come to a close. All three area airports set record highs today as the mercury neared or surpassed triple digit levels across the region with heat indices up to 110. Here are the actuals:
Reagan National: 101
Dulles: 99……If you thought it was bad here, it was worse to our southeast. Richmond and Norfolk hit 105, both records.
When you hear about record temperatures in the news, they are usually talking about record temps for a particular day. While temperature records were broken yesterday for July 24th, the all time high from 1954 still stands:
Virginia Extremes:
Highest Temperature
110F
July 15, 1954
Balcony Falls11 Although Balcony Falls recorded 110F there is some contention as to whether this was a faulty reading. If the reading is faulty, the record is 109F, at Woodstock on July 20, 1930 and at Lincoln on July 10, 1936.
