Record high lows

It took me a while to realize much of the country is experiencing a heat wave, because I just expect it to be hot right now. So Saturday morning, after morning aerobics (Cardio Madness, claims the class), I stepped outside and thought, “Oh, it doesn’t feel so bad today; it’s hot, but no hotter than usual this time of year.”

Then I realized it was 8:30 in the morning, hours and hours earlier than the time of day at which that scouring heat was “no hotter than usual.”

And then I found this on twcblog this morning:

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1145 PM MST SAT JUL 22 2006

…ALL-TIME RECORD DAILY HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE SET IN TUCSON…

THE LOW TEMPERATURE OF 89 DEGREES…RECORDED AT THE TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON JULY 22ND…IS THE WARMEST DAILY LOW TEMPERATURE ON RECORD.

Huh. I could have sword we hit a record high low of 90 a few years back.

The rest of the day, at any rate, did feel like just another hot Tucson summer day, nothing unusual about it–and the humidity was actually pretty low, even if the temps were high. Today it looks like we’re already back to our regularly scheduled monsoons, though–lovely puffy clouds already building over the mountains. Maybe we’ll get rain tonight.