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Re: Over/under on 90 degree temps for this year

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 12:00 am
by MotorCityRadioFreak
93/94 have to be records for September. The hottest September I remember was 1992 when it reached upper 80s in our classroom with no air conditioning.

Re: Over/under on 90 degree temps for this year

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 12:11 am
by Rate This
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 12:00 am 93/94 have to be records for September. The hottest September I remember was 1992 when it reached upper 80s in our classroom with no air conditioning.
Surprisingly no. 25 of the first 26 days in September feature a record high above 90. All but three of those occurred BEFORE 1975. We have hit exactly 100 3 times in September. The latest date in the month was September 15th which happened in 1939.

Here is the data, record highs are in red.
https://www.weather.gov/dtx/DTW_Sep_rec