(TNS) — Summer 2024 has certainly started off strong with a multi-day heatwave settling over much of the Northeast.
And while each year seems like the hottest one ever, Pennsylvania’s warmest day on record happened nearly nine decades ago.
Stacker — which, according to its “About Us” page, is a website founded in 2017 that seeks to “provide publishers with engaging, data-driven stories” — published a report on Tuesday covering the “Most extreme temperatures in the history of every state.”
This information was gleaned from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) 2023 State Climate Extremes Committee. Coldest temperatures as well as “all-time highest 24-hour precipitation” and snowfall were also determined.
“According to a May 2024 analysis from the Associated Press, more than 2,300 deaths due to excessive heat occurred in the U.S. in 2023, a record-breaking high,” opens the report. “As alarming as those numbers are, that rate could skyrocket even further in 2024.”
However, as far as the Keystone State goes, the hottest an area of the state ever got was 111 degrees in 1936 in Phoenixville, Chester County.
This is only five years before the Untied States’s involvement in World War II (three before Europe’s involvement); seven years after the infamous stock market crash which led to the Great Depression; and also three years before the “Wizard of Oz” debuted in theaters, just to give a little context.
Now, the lowest temperature of minus 42 degrees occurred in Smethport, McKean County, in 1904 (dang).
Other temperatures of note across the country was the record-setting 128 degrees Arizona saw in 1994 as well as the 134 degrees some Californians suffered through in 1913.
