Comments by "Module 79L" (@module79l28) on "American Reacts to EXTREME Heat Wave in Europe" video.
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5:00- Hi Ian, portuguese here. Just so you have an idea, here are the highest temperatures recorded between July 8th and 17th, the duration of this heatwave:
July 8th: 110.3ºF (43.5ºC)
July 9th: 111ºF (44ºC)
July 10th: 109.6ºF (43.1ºC)
July 11th: 109.2ºF (42.9ºC)
July 12th: 112.3ºF (44.6ºC)
July 13th: 115.3ºF (46.3ºC)
July 14th: 116.6ºF (47ºC)
July 15th: 113.7ºF (45.4ºC)
July 16th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC)
July 17th: 111.6ºF (44.2ºC)
Mind you, these were not limited to a specific region or one single weather station, they happened all over the country. In the last two days the heatwave started to fade out a bit on the coastal areas and the highs were limited more to the interior regions. Here's the list of how many stations out of the 134 recorded temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) in each day:
July 8th: 24
July 9th: 36
July 10th: 24
July 11th: 21
July 12th: 58
July 13th: 71
July 14th: 58
July 15th: 25
July 16th: 20
July 17th: 20
The highest temperature ever recorded here is 117.1ºF (47.3ºC) on August 1st 2003, the second highest are now 116.6ºF (47ºC), one on the same day as the previous one and the other on July 14th 2022, and the 3rd highest was 116.2ºF (46.8ºC), in Central Portugal near where I live, in August 2018.
One curious fact: the previous record of the station that registered the highest temperature on this heatwave (Pinhão, Douro River valley) was 114.8ºF (46ºC), registered on July 31st 1944! There are more temperatures above 104ºF (40ºC) recorded in the 20th century, which goes to show that these high temperatures are not exclusive of the last 15 years, the difference being that they spanned over a period of 70 years and they're not as many as the ones we've had in this century mostly in 3 years: 2003, 2018 and 2022.
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