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The average temperature in Texas measured 68.1 degrees last year, 0.3 degrees higher than the previous record set in 2012. Last year was the hottest ever recorded in Texas Skip to main content
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
Temperatures measured directly on the ground may exceed air temperatures by 30 to 50 °C (54 to 90 °F). [6] The highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded may have been an alleged reading of 93.9 °C (201.0 °F) at Furnace Creek, California, United States, on 15 July 1972. [7]
The highest temperature ever measured in Texas was 120 °F (48.9 °C), recorded on August 12, 1936 in Seymour, during the 1936 North American Heatwave, and again on June 28, 1994 in Monahans. The lowest temperature ever measured in Texas was −23 °F (−30.6 °C), recorded on February 8, 1933 in Seminole. [27]
Here are the five hottest temperatures ever recorded in North Texas: 113 degrees- June 26 and 27, 1980 112 degrees- Aug. 18, 1909; Aug. 11, 1936 and June 28, 1980
For 1943, 1998 and 2011, 110 degrees was the hottest temperature on record. 1943 saw 34 days of triple digit temperatures, its warmest coming on Aug. 16 at 110 degrees.
1955 – 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some places it was the worst drought on record, more severe than 1976 and 1995. 1960 – on 2 January, Oodnadatta, South Australia hit 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
How hot is it? Here's how this Texas heat wave compares to record temperatures.