Meteorological summer runs from June 1 to August 31. By that definition, this has been the fourth-hottest summer on record in Raleigh and Fayetteville.
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It was the fifth-hottest in the Triad, third-hottest on record in Wilmington and in the top-10 in Asheville and Outer Banks.
It's not just been the daytime heat, but the nighttime warmth. Because this has also been one of the more humid summers on record, overnight lows have not been able to cool much. We've had our third-most number of nights in the 70s.
September is usually a transition month, in which we see a dip in average temperatures by about ten degrees.
We still average four days in the 90s, and we'll reach that within the first four days of the month.
The loss in daylight will help ease the heat a bit. We lose an average of two minutes and ten seconds of daylight per day.
