So just how hot is it in Austin, really?

02004-02-26T02:05:00+00:00

After some controversy over just how bad the weather gets in Austin, I decided to go pick up some actual historical data from the NOAA web site.

First, the monthly averages, in turn averaged for 1931-2000:

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  52.1
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  55.7
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  62.2
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  69.4
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  75.9
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  81.6
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  84.1
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  84.1
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  79.3
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  71.2
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  61.0
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  54.3
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  24.7
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  26.4
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  35.2
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  45.9
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  57.0
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  65.9
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  71.0
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  69.1
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  61.1
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  50.7
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  40.5
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  29.0
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  9.4
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  15.1
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  27.4
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  43.4
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  56.8
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  66.5
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  71.3
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  68.7
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  58.9
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  47.4
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  29.7
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  15.6
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Of course, averages don’t tell the whole story—so I took the last ten years of monthly maximum temperatures, and found the maximum of the maxima for each of three locations…

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  42.66
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  45.26
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  54.47
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  64.2
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  77.3
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  84.28
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  89.29
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  83.74
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  78.31
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  67.63
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  58.38
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  47.65
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  67.76
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  73.96
</td>

<td>
  78.47
</td>

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  85.17
</td>

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  93.47
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  99.16
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  100.36
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  98.86
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  94.77
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  86.77
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  76.97
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  67.56
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  35.08
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  37.68
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  51.66
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  62.76
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  76.76
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  83.78
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  87.38
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  84.58
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  78.67
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  62.57
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  51.27
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  34.18
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Now we’re watching “Insomniac” with Dave Atell. By some strange quirk of fate Dave’s in Austin in this episode. I must say, sara seems to approve of the all-female roller derby…

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