Heat in Coastal Willacy, Texas

Heat September 24, 2023 · Coastal Willacy, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Cameron County Airport Automated Surface Observing System recorded four hours of apparent temperature of 111 or higher, with values peaking at just under 116 degrees between noon and 1 PM. By proxy, it can be inferred through extrapolation that Coastal Willacy County had similar conditions. This was the hottest feeling day of the three-day late-September stretch.

The wider storm

The unrelenting pattern known as 'La Canicula' (the Dog Days of Summer) produced a final round of excessive heat just after astronomical summer (which ended on September 22) of 2023. Afternoon heat index values reached or exceeded 111 for several hours in these areas, and ambient temperatures were at or just below 100 degrees during the period.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1142669. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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