{"id":4770,"date":"2011-08-31T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:26:04","slug":"hottest-month-on-record-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weather\/hottest-month-on-record-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Hottest Month on Record: August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- 2011-09-04 -->July 2011 quickly lost its record-breaking status as the hottest month ever in Austin&#8217;s history (records going back to 1854). The new winner is&#8230;August 2011. The average temperature record in Austin (Camp Mabry station) was 91.6\u00b0F breaking the July 2011 record of 89.7\u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p>August 24, 2011 was the 70th day this year that temperatures reached 100\u00b0F, breaking the 1925 record of 69 days. And summer isn&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highest temperature ever recorded in Austin; 112\u00b0F Aug 28, 2011 (tied with Sep 5, 2000)<\/li>\n<li>hottest August ever recorded in Austin; breaks the 2009 record of 89.1\u00b0F<\/li>\n<li>hottest month ever recorded in Austin; average temperature, 91.6\u00b0F; breaks the July 2011 record of 89.7\u00b0F<\/li>\n<li>average high temperature was 104.8\u00b0F; breaks the 1923 record of 102.9\u00b0F<\/li>\n<li>average low temperature: 78.4\u00b0; breaks the 2010 record of 76.7\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>Most consecutive 100\u00b0F days, 27: July 17 to Aug 12; breaks record of 21 days: July 12 to Aug 1, 2001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does this compare with other years? Here are the warmest August temperatures: 1854-2011. Not only have I been here for every one of them, but they&#8217;ve all been in the last decade.<br \/>\n1. August 2011  91.6<br \/>\n2. August 2009  89.1<br \/>\n3. August 2010  88.7<br \/>\n4. August 2006  88.5<\/p>\n<p>More stats via Natalie Stoll on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kxan.com\/2011\/09\/02\/2011-august-hottest-on-record\/\">KXAN Weather Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/400\/weathercalendar201108.jpg\" alt=\"Austin weather Aug 2011\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}