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The latest calendar date on which Reno has seen triple-digit heat is Sept. 4, set in 1988 and equaled in 2017. But that record could fall soon.
The National Weather Service's latest seven-day forecast for the Reno airport predicts sunny, hot weather and 100-plus degree highs from this Friday, Sept. 4 all the way through Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 7. Lows are expected in the low to mid-60s.
Both the expected high and low temperature ranges are well above recent averages, with highs in the mid-80s and lows in the low 50s.
Escaping the midday heat this weekend won't be easy. Around Lake Tahoe and Donner Lake, temperatures are expected to reach the mid-80s; San Francisco is expecting highs in the upper 70s and low 80s.
In Las Vegas, temperatures could reach 112 on Sunday. The city's all-time record high for September was 113, set on Sept. 1, 1950.
Forecast for the holiday weekend
- Friday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100
- Friday night: Clear, with a low around 63
- Saturday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100
- Saturday night: Clear, with a low around 64
- Sunday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 101
- Sunday night: Clear, with a low around 64
- Monday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 100
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(Unofficial) end to a scorching summer
Triple-digit temperatures through the first week of September are a continuation of a warming trend that has lasted all summer.
July 2020 tied with July 2016 as the second-hottest month ever recorded for the planet Earth, according to a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Only July 2019 was hotter, and only by a fraction of a degree.
July 2020 also marked the 44th-consecutive July and the 427th-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA.
Experts say this is a sure sign of human-caused climate change: "The trend of record heat continues – a trend which we’ve shown in past publications can only be explained by the warming impact of fossil fuel burning," said Penn State University meteorologist Michael Mann.
Record-hot July temperatures spread across parts of southeastern Asia, northern South America and North America. In the U.S., several states either set or tied their hottest month on record, including Virginia (tied), Maryland, Pennsylvania (tied), Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut (tied) and New Hampshire.
What’s more, the Northern Hemisphere saw its hottest July ever — surpassing its previous record high set just last year, NOAA said.
In Reno, August 2020 was the third-warmest on record, while Las Vegas' average August temperature of 95.6 broke its all-time August record by more than a full degree.
Brett McGinness is the engagement editor for the Reno Gazette Journal. He's also the writer of The Reno Memo — a free newsletter about news in the Biggest Little City. Subscribe to the newsletter right here. Consider supporting the Reno Gazette Journal, too.
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