Tampa FL hits 100 degrees for first time in recorded weather history

https://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/2025/07/28/tampa-florida-100-degrees/

by WarOnPrivacy • 12 months ago

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toomuchtodo4• 12 months ago

While sitting on the tarmac waiting to fly out of Tampa this morning, my daughter commented “How much hotter can it get?” with all of the aircraft window shades drawn like something out of Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock.” “Coolest year for the rest of your life” was all I could muster. I simply don’t understand those who don’t believe this is happening. Good luck to all, stay cool out there.

davidw3• 12 months ago

Best we can do is stop measuring it, I guess.

WarOnPrivacy6• 12 months ago

Ha. We're a little north of there and were dealing with screaming hvac condenser fan motor yesterday. I ordered another motor and a start capacitor but it'll be a few days before they're in.

Once the motor cooled enough to be handled, son #3 disassembled it, smoothed out the shaft and applied some super sticky grease. Motor spins freely but only starts sometimes. I've got a construction fan on top, blowing up for now.

toomuchtodo4• 12 months ago

Do you need assistance?

mindslight2• 12 months ago

Jumper the fan so it just stays on all the time, at least during the day?

Be aware with the fan on top, sucking air gives much less cooling capacity than blowing air (the intake flow is mostly laminar).

I had an oil burner motor that would occasionally fail to start up. Subtle rough spot on one of the bearings, so if it stopped in that exact place it didn't have the torque to start spinning.

poulsbohemian• 12 months ago

shiiiiidd, ain't nothin'. Wait until they feel what 110 is like, or 30 days straight of 100+.

casion• 12 months ago

The heat index on my weather station (in tampa) hit 141f yesterday. I'm in Arizona right now and it feels positively delightful.

badc0ffee• 12 months ago

The temperature right now in Tampa is 90F with a dew point of 77F, which is extremely muggy.

Compare to Vegas right now, at 108F but you can actually cool off. The dew point there is 17F.

Having been to the Blackhat conference which is held in Vegas in August, I know which one I'd pick. Stay in the shade and Vegas is no big deal.

paxys• 12 months ago

Heck you barely need to step outside in Vegas. I've been there multiple times and the temperature could have been 60 or 120 and I doubt anyone around me would have known the difference.

Johnbot• 12 months ago

I've seen months straight of 100F+, and I was in LA for their heat wave last July (120F). I happen to be near Tampa right now and I'd really much prefer a hotter dry heat, where shade actually does something and fans have any chance at cooling you off.

davidw3• 12 months ago

I guess it makes sense that because of the shorter summer days and high humidity they don't see highs that are that extreme there. Still seems a bit unexpected if you're going by simpler mental models where "south == warmer".

I dug up this map (which isn't very good, maybe someone has a better one) where it shows the highest temps in various places. Florida is behind states like Oregon and Washington.

https://eldoradoweather.com/climate/US%20Climate%20Maps/Lowe...

The humidity really does make a big difference though. Here east of the Cascades in Oregon it's quite dry, so even on a hot day, a bit of shade, breeze and a cool drink makes for pleasant conditions.

atmavatar• 12 months ago

That's part of it, but a much larger part of the reason Florida has a narrower temperature range is that it's surrounded by huge bodies of water.

TheCleric• 12 months ago

Also Florida is FLAT. Kansas looks downright hilly by comparison. So there’s no natural elevation to break up wind patterns moving across the state.

fingerlocks• 12 months ago

No surprise to anyone who has passed through the high desert or steppe butte wasteland extending nearly the full length of 120°W-ish of the NW hemisphere. The conditions in Bishop California are effectively the same all the way to Okanagan British Columbia.

briankelly• 12 months ago

Wet bulb temp would be better to look at for that reason IMO.

wewewedxfgdf• 12 months ago

Nothing can be done, so learn to live with it.

That's the new political position all around the world.

futureshock2• 12 months ago

It does seem like that’s our new political reality for now. I think that COVID showed world governments just how little control they have over their populations. You get folks to bend a little, but they quickly break and call for you to be thrown out of power. Getting to carbon zero or negative would be asking for an enormous sacrifice of the global population in the form of lower living standards and slower growth. After how people fought against masks, a shot and social distancing, it’s obvious to those in power that there will be no solution to this problem aside from geo-engineering or cost competitive green energy. Might as well stop talking about it.

thehappypm3• 12 months ago

in my opinion, the solution needs to be technological, not austerity. In a democracy, any party that introduces quality of life reductions in favor of the global climate will always get voted out

breakyerself• 12 months ago

I think the idea that it would lower living standards is something the fossil fuel companies would have you believe.

dh2022• 12 months ago

Oh but the population will have to sacrifice - there is no way food supply will not be affected. Florida’s orange production in 1996 was 174 million boxes[0] since 2020 it is around 52 million boxes[1]. Beef production is lower because of drought [3].

There are parts of the country which are not insurable because of hurricanes, fires, floods and tornadoes [4]. This is an indicator that anything built will not be around for a long time.

So they will sacrifice-they just know it yet.

[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...

[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...

[3] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/...

[4] https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2025/02/feds-powell-says-some...

lisbbb2• 12 months ago

All I can say to that is: Thank God! Governments are increasingly authoritarian and not having control is a good thing.

WorldPeas• 12 months ago

Family used to live in an area over there until they built a massive cruiseport, the smog from which trapped in so much more heat. I wonder if this is partly to blame. Ask me about my grudge against Jimmy Buffett

jauntywundrkind• 12 months ago

For reports like this I tend to turn to the University of Maine's excellent Climate Reanalyzer, which has a nice "temperature anomaly" view of the world. Click the "Show T2" button below the graph: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

I also appreciate that they have see surface temperature anomaly, which can hugely impact temperature. Watching the ocean get to 100 degrees around Manatee Bay in 2023 was wild. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/blog/hot-tub... https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2

It looks like Tampa's not really that much better than usual? But on the north rim of the Gulf of a Mexico, there's some decent sized temperature anomolies.

lisbbb2• 12 months ago

This surprises me because I've been to FL in the summer 2-3 times now and it was unbelievably hot and humid everywhere. For Tampa to be all "we never hit this temp before" seems unlikely to me since the whole damn place was a furnace in the high 90s no matter where you went. I will only go winter/early spring now. I never have had time in the fall.

JamesSwift5• 12 months ago

Im on the exact opposite side near cocoa beach and it really feels like the heat has been more and more oppressive. The heat indexes plus what feels like a constant whiplash between drought conditions and flooding conditions has been brutal.

Part of that might be that I'm over 40 now. I have to mow the lawn in shifts, its just too brutal otherwise.

WarOnPrivacy6• 12 months ago

The heat indexes plus what feels like a constant whiplash between drought conditions and flooding conditions has been brutal.

I've got a spiel about FL having 6-8 seasons and none of them are fall, winter or spring.

    Summer: The 13th month is the worst.
    Not-Summer: Best 13 minutes of the year.
    Hurricane season: Better than summer up to a Cat 2 or so.
    Drought season: Begins 15 min after the last rainfall.
    Wildfire season: At least it cuts down on the sun.
    Doldrums: Period between summer and not summer of no weather at all.

I'll have to work in flooding somewhere. Also red tide. Not oil spill tho, no recurrence since the last one.

it really feels like the heat has been more and more oppressive.

Our winters are warmer by the decade. I experienced teens in the 1990s. Now we're lucky to get below 40. Yard ghosts (sheets on bushes) were on/off thing all winter long. Now increasingly uncommon; we get years in a row with none at all.

ref: https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/FL/Tampa/e...

Tampa FL hits 100 degrees for first time in recorded weather history

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