Thursday, July 01, 2010

Record high temperatures for July


The record high temperatures for July:

On July 6th, 2007, I posted for the first time on my blog the record high temperature for Peoria, Illinois for each day of the month of July with the year the record occurred. I began the post with this paragraph:

Anyone ever ask you, “Hot enough for you?” It seems like I hear that every summer. I was at a funeral recently. I can’t remember the age of the person but I think she was around 90 years of age. One of the individuals who talked about her life mentioned that she often talked about how hot it was in 1936. 1936? But global warming is a new phenomenon! How could it be hot in 1936?

I had a post for each month from July of 2007 through June of 2008. I stopped at June because I did not have the new figures for the second half of the year. I now have the figures for January through December. Therefore, I thought I would begin the process again.

First, here are the conclusions for January, February, March, April, May, and June:

For January:

01) The record high temperatures for January ranged from 71° to a low of 56°.
02) There were two highs in the 70’s, three in the 50’s, and twenty-six in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1890’s and 1950’s with 5 each.
04) The decade of the 1880’s was the only decade with no record high dates.
05) The decade of the 1930’s had 2 record high temperature dates.
06) Four dates in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 71° occurred on January 23, 1909.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 56° occurred on January 30, 1988.

For February:

01) The record high temperatures for February ranged from 74° to a low of 54°.
02) There were nine highs in the 70’s, two in the 50’s, and eighteen in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1930’s with 8.
04) The decades of the 1880’s, 1960’s, and 1980’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 74° occurred on February 10, 1932.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 54° occurred on February 2, 1920.
09) The year of 1930 had five of six straight days with record high temperatures.

For March:

01) The record high temperatures for March ranged from 87° to a low of 70°.
02) There were fourteen highs in the 80’s, and seventeen in the 70’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in 4 different decades—the 1900’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s—with four in each decade.
04) The decade of the 1880’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 1930’s had record high temperatures.
06) The highest record high temperature of 87° occurred on March 21, 1907.
07) The lowest record high temperature of 70° occurred on March 5, 1945.

For April:

01) The record high temperatures for April ranged from 92° to a low of 82°.
02) There were nine highs in the 90’s, and twenty-one in the 80’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1980’s with seven in the decade.
04) The decades of the 1910’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s had no record high dates.
05) The 1930’s had four record high temperatures.
06) The 2000’s had four record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 92° occurred on April 10, 1930 and April 25, 1986.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 82° occurred on April 3, 1978.
09) There were seven record high temperatures in the 1880’s and 1890’s.

For May:

01) The record high temperatures for May ranged from 104° to a low of 89°.
02) There was one high in the 80’s, twenty-nine highs in the 90’s and one high in the 100’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1890’s with ten in the decade.
04) The decades of the 1940’s, 1960’s, and 1990’s had no record high dates.
05) The 1930’s had five record high temperatures including four in 1934.
06) The 2000’s had one record high temperature.
07) The highest record high temperature of 104° occurred on May 31, 1934.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 89° occurred on May 1, 1901.
09) There were 18 record high temperatures from the 1880’s through the 1910’s and 28 record high temperatures from the 1880’s through the 1950’s.

For June:

01) The record high temperatures for June ranged from 105° (three times with two of the three in the 1930’s) to a low of 96° (twice).
02) There were fourteen highs in the 90’s and sixteen highs in the 100’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1930’s with fifteen in the decade—half of the total record highs for the month.
04) The decades of the 1900’s, 1920’s, 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1990’s, 2000’s (seven decades) had no record high dates.
05) The 1930’s had nine record high temperatures in 1934, two in 1933, and one each in four other years.
06) The 2000’s had no record high temperature.
07) The last record high temperature occurred in 1988 (105°) with none since.
08) Since 1937, there have been six record high temperatures—two in the 1970’s and four in the 1980’s.
09) There have been six record high temperatures in the 1880’s (two) and 1890’s (four).

Here are the July record high temperatures for Peoria.

The Peoria Journal Star on June 13, 2010, page S4 published “The Weather Month by Month.” According to the Peoria Journal Star, here are the record highs for Peoria for the month of July with the year of that record high.

“July 1 102 ……. 1931*
July 2 100 ……. 1925
July 3 100 ……. 1911
July 4 106 ……. 1936*
July 5 105 ……. 1936*
July 6 106 ……. 1936*
July 7 106 ……. 1936*
July 8 105 ……. 1936*
July 9 103 ……. 1936*
July 10 106 ……. 1936*
July 11 108 ……. 1936*
July 12 107 ……. 1936*
July 13 109 ……. 1936*
July 14 110 ……. 1936*
July 15 113 ……. 1936*
July 16 104 ……. 1887
July 17 106 ……. 1887
July 18 101 ……. 1930*
July 19 103 ……. 1930*
July 20 102 ……. 1930*
July 21 105 ……. 1901
July 22 105 ……. 1901
July 23 105 ……. 1934*
July 24 106 ……. 1901
July 25 104 ……. 1940
July 26 105 ……. 1936*
July 27 107 ……. 1930*
July 28 102 ……. 1983
July 29 104 ……. 1887
July 30 103 ……. 1913
July 31 102 ……. 1988”

For July:

01) The high temperature for every day in July was 100° or more.
02) There were 12 straight days of record high temperatures in 1936.
03) The first day of record temperatures in 1936 was on Independence Day—July 4th.
04) During those twelve days, the lowest record high was 103° on July 9th.
05) During those twelve days, the highest record high was 113° on July 15th, the last day of those record twelve straight days. Do you think that the people living in 1936 were beginning to think that the record heat would never end? Do you think they blamed the 12 days of record heat on global warming?
06) 1936 had another record high during the month on July 26th when the temperature reached 105°.
07) 13 of the record highs for July occurred in 1936.
08) Almost half of the record highs for July occurred in 1936.
09) There were 6 other days in July where record highs were recorded in the 1930’s.
10) 19 of the 31 record highs for July occurred in the 1930’s.
11) The 1990’s and the 2000’s have no record highs in July.
12) The most recent record high in July occurred in 1988 at 102° on July 31st.
13) There were two record highs in the 1980’s—1983 and 1988.

The 1930’s has increased its lead by an additional 19 days! In January, the 2000’s led the 1930’s by a 2 to 1 margin. The 1930’s from January through February had 10 record high temperatures. The 2000’s had five. The 1930’s had one more record high temperature in March giving the 1930’s a total of 11 for the first three months of the year. The 2000’s added four more record high temperatures to its previous total of five increasing its three month total to nine just two less than the eleven of the 1930’s. Both the 1930’s and the 2000’s had four more record high temperatures in April. With the addition of five record highs in May, the 1930’s has 20 record high temperatures through May while the 2000’s, with only one additional, has 14 highs. June has shut out the 2000’s while adding 15 more for the 1930’s. The 1930’s has now more than doubled the 2000’s having a comfortable lead of 35 to 14. July has again shut out the 2000’s while adding 19 more for the 1930’s. The 1930’s has almost four times the number of record high days as the 2000’s having a very comfortable lead of 54 to 14. The 1930’s is pulling farther away!

What happened to the 2000’s? Who will win out? It must be “Al Gore’s” global warming—or not!

This is what the Bible says about our climate: “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: ‘Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’” Genesis 8: 20-22 (NIV)

As I’ve said before, no human can accurately predict what the weather is going to be like 50 years from today. We have difficulty predicting with 100% accuracy what the weather is going to be like seven days from now. This I do know. If GOD wants global warming as predicted by the “Al Gore gang” to occur, there is NOTHING man can do to stop it. If GOD doesn’t want global warming to occur, it won’t, no matter what man does. Of course, GOD could always let man proceed as they choose without HIS hand in it either way. I don’t know what will occur 50 years from now and NEITHER DOES any other human on this planet!

This I also know. If I were living a life of SIN, I’d be more concerned about what GOD will do today and tomorrow or what will happen to me after my death (none of us has a guarantee that we will live another fifty years) than what is going to occur in another 50 years!!!