Although the official definition of a heat wave is three or more consecutive days with highs of 90° or hotter, I've relaxed it a bit for this analysis and have included days in the upper 80s, as well as one or two cooler days if they fell between periods of hot weather. With that said here are eleven of the more notable hot spells that have occurred in the past 100 years:
HOT IN JUNE
2008 (June 7-10) - Although just four days long, the average high was 94.8°, the second hottest of June hot spells.
2003 (June 24-27) - Besides four readings in the 90s this hot spell also had a low of 79° on June 26, the warmest low since 1984 (but it came sixteen days later than 1984's). Interestingly, even with these four hot days the month was 2.6 degrees cooler than average (and the coolest in 31 years). Without these four days the month was four degrees below average.
1994 (June 14-26) - At 13 days this is the lengthiest warm spell in June (June 1953 had one of twelve days). Six days were in the 90s. The high on June 18 reached 98°; three days earlier the high was 96°. The month became the third warmest June on record.
1984 (June 7-13) - The hottest period in the summer of 1984 occurred during this seven-day stretch in the second week of June. The average high/low during this week-long steam bath was 93/75, with six of the seven days having highs in the 90s (the rest of the summer had four 90-degree days). The mean temperature of 83.8 was the second hottest for June hot spells, just 0.1 degree below a four-day heat wave in the middle of June 1956. But it was the most above average, +14 degrees. The low on the morning of June 10 was 79°, seventeen degrees above average (and one degree higher than the date's average high).
1966 (June 20 - July 15) - This hot spell began on June 20 and stretched thru mid-July, but even just the 11 days in June makes it one of the lengthiest for the month. It's probably best remembered for the 101° high on June 27 (second earliest date for a triple-digit high). The period in June and July each were seven degrees above average. And earlier in June there was a six-day period that saw temperatures 10 degrees above average. Overall this became the second warmest June on record.
1957 (June 12-19) - This eight-day long stretch of hot weather duplicated a mid-June heat wave from the previous year, but this one lasted twice as long. These days were eleven degrees above average, with the last five days all in the 90s (peaking at 95° and 96° on 6/16 and 6/17, respectively).
1956 (June 13-16) - The mean temperature during this four-day heat wave, 83.9° (13 degrees above average), is the highest of all the periods in this analysis. On June 14 the high reached 99°.
1952 (June 15-27) - This stands out because two hot periods, of five days and three days, book-ended three days with highs only in the 60s (averaging 63°). It's also memorable for having the earliest date for a 100-degree high (June 26) - and the only low in June in the 80s (81°). There was also a high of 99° on June 25.
1943 (June 19-28) - Eight of the ten days were in the 90s, including highs of 99° on June 25 and 98° on June 27. This would become the warmest June on record (a position it still holds).
1925 (June 1-7) - This week-long hot spell during the first week of the month had an average high of 95.0°, twenty-one degrees above average, making it the hottest average high of any of the June heat waves in this analysis. This included back-to-back highs of 99° on June 4 and 5 (which followed a high of 98° on June 3). June would be the warmest month of the summer of '25 and at the time it was the warmest June on record (it now ranks sixth).
1921 (June 21-29) - Although the amount wasn't excessive, this is the June hot spell with the most rain. Six of the nine days had rain, which totaled 1.47".
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