![]() With a couple years of drier weather, fine fuels were less evident in lower elevations this year, and preventative measures in higher elevations helped keep wildfire activity and burned acreage to less than anticipated levels. April through July 2022 were regularly warmer than normal with 3 of 4 of those months ranking in the top 10 warmest for Phoenix. The dry regime continued into spring and early summer 2022, however similar to the past several years, temperatures warmed into a well above normal range. The vast majority of weather systems passed well north of the area with only a few light precipitation events. This pattern allowed for mostly moderate temperatures not far from a normal range. Records in Yuma began in 1878.Ī persistent moderate La Nina pattern from 2021 continued into 2022 with drier than normal conditions across the region during the first part of the year. Records for Phoenix began in 1896, first taken in downtown and since moved to Sky Harbor airport in the 1950s. Equipment failures at Yuma failed to record events required to make an annual total. Rainfall in Phoenix for the year was slightly below average, and ranked as the 89th wettest. Extensive missing temperature data at El Centro precludes any definitive ranking this year. Phoenix is forecasted to see chances up to 50% for showers and thunderstorms starting Saturday night through Monday.The year 2022 ended up being the 12th warmest year recorded in the history of Phoenix, Arizona, and tied for 12th warmest in Yuma. The biggest impact that we will be seeing with that is wind gusts as well as some potential blowing dust that might reduce visibility in those dust prone regions," Leffel said. National Weather Service Meteorologist Jessica Leffel says that the dry trend is likely to continue. ![]() That streak of heat has also seen very little rain in the Valley, with some areas only seeing enough to make their cars filthy. It’s been about 25 days of at least 110 degrees in Phoenix, and forecasters expect the heat trend to continue through at least Friday. It's likely the record will fall, since high temperatures above 105 are forecast through the end of the month. city, has seen a monthly average temperature above 100 degrees, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration records. If the average holds through the end of July, it will mark the first time Phoenix, or any major U.S. This month's 102.8 degree average is also more than three degrees hotter than the next-hottest month on record for Phoenix, which was August 2020, when temperatures averaged 99.1 degrees. According to the National Weather Service, the normal average for July is 95.6. That’s a whole seven degrees above normal for July. That means, so far, the overall average temperature for the month of July has been 102.8 degrees. Nights have not dropped below 90 for more than two weeks. Now, it appears July will also break the record for the hottest month the city has ever seen.ĭaytime temperatures this month have soared as high as 119 degrees. Phoenix’s brutal heat wave has already broken a string of daily temperature records. The Arizona sun behind a palm tree in June 2021.
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