{"id":502,"date":"2006-04-22T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/04\/22\/tucson-weather-trivia\/"},"modified":"2006-05-07T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T20:35:36","slug":"tucson-weather-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/22\/tucson-weather-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Weather Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/April\/virga-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"Tucson monsoon sunset with virga\" title=\"Tucson thunderstorm sunset with virga\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Averages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/April\/Tucson-weather-averages.gif\" alt=\"Tucson monthly weather averages\" title=\"Tucson monthly weather averages\" width=\"373\" height=\"271\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/tus.php\">Average Annual Rainfall<\/a>: 12.17 inches (30.91 cm)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/1st100_tus.php\">Average First Occurrence of 100 \u00b0F (37.8 \u00b0C)<\/a>: May 26<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/monsoon\/monsoon.php\">Average Monsoon Start Date<\/a>: July 3<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/freeze_dates.php\">Average First Freeze Date<\/a>: November 24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Temperature Records:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Record High Temperature<\/a>: 117 \u00b0F (47.2 \u00b0C) on June 26, 1990<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Record Low Temperature<\/a>: 6 \u00b0F (-14.4 \u00b0C) on January 7, 1913<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Warmest year<\/a>: 1989, with an average temperature of 71.4 \u00b0F (21.9 \u00b0C)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Coldest Year<\/a>: 1912, with an average temperature of 65.0 \u00b0F (18.3 \u00b0C)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/20thcentury_top10wx.php\">Hottest Summer<\/a>: 1994, with 82 of 92 days at or above 100 \u00b0F (37.8 \u00b0C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Precipitation Records:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Record One-day Precipitation<\/a>: 3.93 inches (9.98 cm) on July 29, 1958<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Record One-day Snowfall<\/a>: 6.8 inches (17.3 cm) on December 8, 1971<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Wettest Year<\/a>: 1905, with 24.17 inches (61.39 cm) precipitation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/twc\/climate\/all-time.php\">Driest Year<\/a>: 1924, with 5.07 inches (12.88 cm) precipitation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: This information is the most currently available, but it will likely change in future years. Hopefully we won&#8217;t have any new temperature records set&#8230; Well, at least not as long as I live here! I remember the record hot summer of 1994, and I hope to never see such a hellish summer again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Averages: Average Annual Rainfall: 12.17 inches (30.91 cm) Average First Occurrence of 100 \u00b0F (37.8 \u00b0C): May 26 Average Monsoon Start Date: July 3 Average First Freeze Date: November 24 Temperature Records: Record High Temperature: 117 \u00b0F (47.2 \u00b0C) on June 26, 1990 Record Low Temperature: 6 \u00b0F (-14.4 \u00b0C) on January 7, 1913 Warmest&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/04\/22\/tucson-weather-trivia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-weather-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}