In fact, this October was so hot that, looking back at the historical data, a quarter of all Septembers in Austin have been cooler than this recent October.
An ACL staff member sprays concert attendees with water to help combat the weekend's extreme heat.Unseasonably heavy rains into the summer kept temperatures below the expected summer scorch. Even area reservoirs were recovering. Maybe this year, people thought, we’d escape the brutal heat that has characterized recent years.
“This blows away the previous record high of 88.4F set in 1947,” Victor Murphy, a Climate Services program manager, at the National Weather Service, wrote to KUT. Put those average highs and lows together, and we just lived through the warmest October ever recorded.
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