The dog days of summer are upon us!

On this date a year ago, we recorded our 17th day at 100 or above. Yesterday our high was a record breaking 103, but was only our 10th day of triple digit heat. I say “only,” but 10 days is way too many, considering that our average number of 100 degree days is 12–for the whole summer!

So might we catch up? Could this become a worse summer than last year? It’s impossible to know now, but I can tell you the next two weeks don’t look promising at all. We’re expecting to remain near or just above 100 degrees for the next 7 days at least. Here’s the new 8-14 day outlook from the Climate Prediction Center, and as you can see, it is expected to remain hotter and drier than normal, but hopefully we’ll drop a little below 100!