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<blockquote data-quote="KPRC2" data-source="post: 52930" data-attributes="member: 148">According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the <a href="https://www.almanac.com/content/what-are-dog-days-summer" target="_blank">dog days of summer</a> started July 3rd and end August 11th, but tell that to whomever will listen! The Dog Star, Sirius, shows up around sunrise now and in ancient times they believed that the very bright Sirius star along with the sun worked together to make summers so hot!Regardless, today already has a heat advisory for northern counties and count on one everywhere as the week wears on and we approach another round of triple-digit days!<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/qYXuOrc95MNpUi02xJ68aoJBHfk=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/EZA4YKE65VDSNA4TETYX7ADDWA.jpg" alt="Heat Advisory" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Keeping up with three other very hot summers--1980, 1998 and 2011--here is where we now rank with days of 100 or higher:<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/7ugi4nvJRror0toF1fHO3S47aYs=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/HTBIME4VSRBJTMP5HIOYO3OQOY.JPG" alt="100 or higher" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Last Friday’s clouds and rain brought our high down to 95° so our average for high temps also came down a tad but so far we’re running in second place and we are on track to see not only the hottest July ever but the most hundred degree days in this month!<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/EK0n79T1NE2wqbqEFNf7DGpV8Gk=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/JT33A2Y3G5DSDJHP7XR6VMBHLM.JPG" alt="Average High Temp" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Speaking of rain....at least we had a bit last week:<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/_eNdNIYd6U3Js7HTv4aQeWUL_Xg=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/NZ4A6AWNAZC2HHGXZIRZLWXCFI.JPG" alt="from rob on Click2pins" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />While January got our rain total to double the average, since then it’s been hard to find. In May we had a few stormy days but the summer has been brutal.<img src="https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/-pZ0TgLOwI0mS4Bk1NE7yC3uUTA=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/2GUPB3F6RBGAPBBWPWOSUFGJOY.JPG" alt="Rainfall at BUSH/IAH" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Hang on...we have a “ruff” week ahead of us and we still aren’t to August!Frank<a href="mailto:frank@kprc.com">Email me</a> and follow me on <a href="https://facebook.com/frankbillingsley" target="_blank">Facebook</a>!<a href="https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2022/07/18/the-dog-days-are-biting/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="KPRC2, post: 52930, member: 148"] According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the [URL='https://www.almanac.com/content/what-are-dog-days-summer']dog days of summer[/URL] started July 3rd and end August 11th, but tell that to whomever will listen! The Dog Star, Sirius, shows up around sunrise now and in ancient times they believed that the very bright Sirius star along with the sun worked together to make summers so hot! Regardless, today already has a heat advisory for northern counties and count on one everywhere as the week wears on and we approach another round of triple-digit days! [IMG alt="Heat Advisory"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/qYXuOrc95MNpUi02xJ68aoJBHfk=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/EZA4YKE65VDSNA4TETYX7ADDWA.jpg[/IMG] Keeping up with three other very hot summers--1980, 1998 and 2011--here is where we now rank with days of 100 or higher: [IMG alt="100 or higher"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/7ugi4nvJRror0toF1fHO3S47aYs=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/HTBIME4VSRBJTMP5HIOYO3OQOY.JPG[/IMG] Last Friday’s clouds and rain brought our high down to 95° so our average for high temps also came down a tad but so far we’re running in second place and we are on track to see not only the hottest July ever but the most hundred degree days in this month! [IMG alt="Average High Temp"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/EK0n79T1NE2wqbqEFNf7DGpV8Gk=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/JT33A2Y3G5DSDJHP7XR6VMBHLM.JPG[/IMG] Speaking of rain....at least we had a bit last week: [IMG alt="from rob on Click2pins"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/_eNdNIYd6U3Js7HTv4aQeWUL_Xg=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/NZ4A6AWNAZC2HHGXZIRZLWXCFI.JPG[/IMG] While January got our rain total to double the average, since then it’s been hard to find. In May we had a few stormy days but the summer has been brutal. [IMG alt="Rainfall at BUSH/IAH"]https://www.click2houston.com/resizer/-pZ0TgLOwI0mS4Bk1NE7yC3uUTA=/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gmg/2GUPB3F6RBGAPBBWPWOSUFGJOY.JPG[/IMG] Hang on...we have a “ruff” week ahead of us and we still aren’t to August! Frank [EMAIL='frank@kprc.com']Email me[/EMAIL] and follow me on [URL='https://facebook.com/frankbillingsley']Facebook[/URL]! [url="https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2022/07/18/the-dog-days-are-biting/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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