The Tucson heat is shattering decades-old records, even as autumn falls across the area, according to National Weather Service Meteorologists.
The last time Tucson saw at least five days of September temperatures reaching over 105 degrees was in 1952.
“We’re going to beat that,” said Marc Singer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tucson. “We’re shattering things here.”
While relief is on its way next week, with temperatures trickling down a few degrees, Singer said Tucson temps are still ones for the record books.
“Even though we’re cooling off, we’re still at or near record highs,” he noted.
An old forecaster used to say, “we have some cool daily record highs to break,” the weather service noted. That seems to be the case now, Singer said.
“This may seem like the new normal, but this is really late to be getting consistently hot like this. In the old days, we’d only be seeing the 90s.”
But, the heat is here to stay, at least for this week.
Sunday’s high is expected to hit a record-breaking 105, followed by Tuesday’s high of 103 and Wednesday’s high of 107.
Lows will hover in the low-to-mid 70s, according to the weather service.
“This is so out of the ordinary for this time of year,” Singer said.
The chance of rain bringing any reprieve is pretty much nil, according to meteorologists.
Although monsoon season officially ends Monday, Singer said things settled down a few weeks ago.
“We’re pretty much out of the woods,” he said.
Tucson saw 5.8 inches of rain this season, up from 2023’s measure of 4.73 inches.
Singer said an average monsoon season will produce about 5.69 inches of rain.
