NORTH CAROLINA -- The high temperature soared to 76 at the Raleigh-Durham Airport Monday, December 30. It was the 12th time this year that a record high has either been tied or broken in the Triangle. Weather records for the Raleigh area date back to 1887.

Records were also tied or broken on the following dates:

  • February 6 - 77
  • February 7 - 79
  • February 8 - 75
  • May 26 - 94
  • May 30 - 96
  • September 12 - 96
  • September 26 - 94
  • September 29 - 95
  • October 2 - 96
  • October 3 - 100
  • October 31 - 85

The hottest temperature of 2019 came on October 3, when the temperature soared to 100. It was the latest a "hottest temperature" had ever been recorded in a year for Raleigh. The hottest weather of the year typically occurs in July.  It was also the hottest temperature ever recorded in October and the latest in the year the area has hit 100.

While we did have some cold days in 2019, not a single record low was set in the Triangle.  

This continues a trend that we have seen in central North Carolina and across the country for record highs outpacing record lows in recent decades.

 

 

 

 

Record highs are expected to continue to greatly outpace record lows in the decades to come due to our warming climate. There is a near unanimous consensus among climate scientists that greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide are causing the planet to warm at a rate never measured in past decades.  

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