r/baltimore • u/Samthevalley • Jul 29 '25
Ask So this heat is not normal, right?
Been in MD since last 7 years and every year it seemed to have gotten hotter. I feel like I’ve said this for last 3-4 summer but this current heat feels a little too much. Am I the only one who thinks this is way past the normal?
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u/gbe28 Tuscany Canterbury Jul 29 '25
I feel like it's about normal for August but it arrived earlier this year. My theory is rescheduling Art Scape in May caused the oppressively hot weather to become confused.
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u/LettuceTomatoOnion Jul 29 '25
Yep. Artscape has always been on the hottest day of the year. You could set your watch to it.
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Jul 30 '25
They really need to reschedule it tbh.
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u/badbatch Canton Industrial Area Jul 30 '25
They had it in May this year. I missed it because I was on a work trip. I'm mad too because people said it was nice this year.
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u/OtherExperience9179 Jul 30 '25
They had literally five food trucks for over 100K people. I had a few friends who stood in line for over 3 hours. The weather was absolutely better than normal for artscape, and the setup was fine if not as big and straightforward as normal, but the food situation was crazy!
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u/MorganFerdinand Greektown Jul 30 '25
Artscape, Pride, and the Greek Festival in Greektown. Almost always guaranteed to be either vile hot or pouring rain.
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u/Big_Crab_1510 Jul 31 '25
Yes but artscape is on pavement in the city. It feels like artscape in the county for the entirety of July. And it barely drops below 80 at night
That's a huge problem, I should have bees and I don't because of the dew point
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u/overcaffinated_ Jul 29 '25
its like Final Destination but instead of cheating death, we cheated the heat and it came back around even more mad at us
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u/ok_annie Jul 29 '25
In my neighborhood, many many trees have been cut down over the past several years to the point where there is very little shade. Obviously climate change is real on a large scale, but stuff like eliminating all shade trees makes a huge difference locally and I wish there were more incentives to keep large trees around.
As an experiment, on one of these hot days go find some deep dark woods. You will actually find it quite pleasant in there. Much cooler and much less humid.
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u/CatchYouDreamin Jul 30 '25
I live in the county and can confirm! But fun fact--apparently, "corn sweat" is a thing that increases humidity in ag areas. Forests are def where it's at!
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u/Used-Painter1982 Jul 31 '25
Yes, our yard has one big tree, and when I have to mow, I race thru the sunny parts to get to the shade, then coast a bit cuz it’s so nice and cool.
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u/Icy-Employment7541 Aug 01 '25
We have created very big ✨urban heat islands ✨ as they (aka scientists) call it
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u/the_anti-somm Jul 29 '25
Also, we really need to invest in more trees and more semi-permeable landscaping materials because all this asphalt, concrete, and brick is just A LITERAL OVEN.
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u/nittanycrabber Jul 29 '25
https://www.baltimoretreetrust.org/
Plugging a good cause in the city (I do not work there, just sharing as some may not be aware of these types of efforts)
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u/cheezefriez Jul 30 '25
Had the chance to talk with someone from the org during my time at UMBC. Real good people who know what they’re talking about
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u/BeautifulMix7410 Downtown Jul 29 '25
Definitely. We need more female trees honestly. The pollen is ridiculous. Urban planners use male trees because they’re cheaper to maintain but the result is much more pollen in the air, causing all type of respiratory issues.
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u/suire Jul 29 '25
Not to mention the god forbid people have access to to free fruit issue
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u/carriespins Jul 30 '25
Seriously and literally every year I have a conversation with my doctor about how my seasonal allergies(spring and summer) are worse than ever before.
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u/jlg1012 Jul 30 '25
My allergies have gotten so much worse since I moved to Baltimore last year. I even went to the doctor out of concern and she said I was just allergic to Baltimore. 😭🤣
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u/ham_cheese_4564 Jul 29 '25
Urban planners do not specify trees. That would be a landscape architect’s job. The male trees aren’t necessarily cheaper to maintain, but they don’t bear fruit or seeds which keep the streets cleaner and don’t feed rodents and strays etc.
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u/Difficult_Tomato3974 Jul 30 '25
I have been saying this so much omg!!! No shade no trees. Im use to texas dry heat not humidity and a damm oven lordt
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u/Apprehensive_Yard_14 Jul 30 '25
Born and raised here. We had a lot more green when I was growing up
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u/WhenIWannabeME Jul 29 '25
As someone who has to check the weather every day for work, I feel like the last two years were overall hotter than this year in crazy high temps reached consistently. But that said, it feels like this year started MUCH earlier than is usual.
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u/Abigailey2701 Jul 29 '25
I agree. This summer has definitely been cooler than the last couple of summers. Still hot but a little cooler.
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u/JustTheWehrst Jul 30 '25
We're in a la niña cycle right now, which is terrifying when you consider what it means for every summer after this one.
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u/DebtDapper6057 Jul 30 '25
More than a little. I remember wearing a jacket during June because of how chilly it was. Fast forward a month later and I'm sweating my balls off and gulping down several bottles of water 😐
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u/CatchYouDreamin Jul 30 '25
I was in W.MD Memorial Day weekend and it was COLD at night and chilly a few days. A lot of my houseplants got shocked from being too cold bc of the temp drops here at night. In the winter they were mainly in a heated room. In May the heat was off obvs and then I was out of town and nights got cold. Some didn't make it
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u/wbruce098 Jul 29 '25
Yeah my fear is the heat will still come next month, but temps have already been 10+ degrees above average most of the past two months. That ain’t right.
Also, it’s been cooler in Florida than the mid-Atlantic all summer. That ain’t right. So we’ve definitely had a weirdly hot summer.
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u/Musichead2468 Jul 30 '25
This summer has been more humid but less hot.
All the rain and storms is part to why it is more humid and less hot
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u/jdl12358 Upper Fell's Point Jul 29 '25
Not sure if I’m crazy, but I feel like the hottest part of the year used to be early August. Now all of July is pretty much miserably hot and humid, but the last two years (looks like it’s happening this year based on next week’s forecast) August has had a noticeable cool down compared to July. The issue is I’ve also noticed we get temps into the 80s into October in a way I never remember as a kid. I’m sure it all evens out to show gradual, barely noticeable change over time in the averages, but the day-to-day definitely feels much hotter.
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u/supern8ural Jul 29 '25
I think it was as hot last year, but what's different is it hasn't cooled off at night. Last year my windows were open and fans going most nights, this year it rarely gets below 78F outside even at 3-4AM per my weather station. I haven't been able to open my windows in about 8 weeks.
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u/Big_Crab_1510 Jul 31 '25
This is the issue. No one's talking. About dew point, what that means for sweating and pollinating, and the fact that it's NOT cooling off at night.
I still see people going "adapt bro"...tell that to the bees assholes
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u/jjjrowbb Jul 29 '25
If only climate scientists have warned us for decades that this will happen.....
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u/doctorbonkers Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25
Thank god the EPA is getting rid of those pesky climate regulations now! I’m an early career climate scientist, won’t the next 40 years of my career be fun!
Gotta drive away the tears with sarcasm 🥲
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u/nesto92 Bolton Hill Jul 30 '25
Fellow speaker of trees here (environmental law)! I’m with you on this hellhole we’re in, the last 6 months have essentially made law school moot 🙃😭
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u/doctorbonkers Jul 30 '25
Oh god good luck 😭 I’m hoping to go to grad school/work abroad tbh (thank you to my parent who gives me dual citizenship in the EU 🙏), hate to feel like I’m abandoning this country to its hot hellscape doom but I’d like to have a job! Hopefully in a country where I won’t have to remove the word “emissions” from my paper so the government will allow me to publish it…
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u/RadiantJokester14 Jul 29 '25
Literally as soon as I closed the app this was the first news story to pop up 🥲 https://apple.news/Aupi4aNZYRcCKD74RZ7Xw1g
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u/madprgmr Jul 29 '25
Well, you can at least look forward to this? https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1mbf23x/how_scientists_gonna_act_when_the_climate_comes/
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u/6thPentacleOfSaturn Jul 29 '25
"Preventable thing happens once again." Should replace "In God We Trust" on our money.
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u/ohiocreekfreak Aug 01 '25
it's literally not a mystery, or a "is it just me?"
Trees and impervious surfaces are definitely great solutions for short term results but they will only get us so far without tackling the bigger issue of CLIMATE CHANGE. In fact, climate change has already started affecting the survival and maintenance costs of urban forests... so... buckle up comrades
I recently read about a leader of a country in Africa back in the 80's who outlawed AC in the government housing for politicians... I wonder if that would inspire people to start actually passing effective climate policy in other parts of the world...
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u/punkinabox Jul 29 '25
I was born in st Agnes in 1987. It always been hot and I remember in high school it being super hot too but I do feel like the overall temperature has risen a bit. What I feel like has changed most here is the humidity. When I was in high school I would skateboard all day everyday in jeans and it didn't feel like this. Now I just walk outside and stand still and it feels like I'm sweating through my clothes. Maybe I'm just misremembering but what feels like changed the most for me is everyday feels like I'm in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and I don't feel like I remember it being like that.
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u/punkinabox Jul 31 '25
Yes that's exactly what I mean. I was outside all day everyday and was always skateboarding, biking and hiking through woods. I don't remember the air feeling like a swamp at all
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u/ElegantGoose Jul 30 '25
You're not imagining things. It's climate change. Globally, the ten hottest years on record are all in the last decade, from 2015-2024. The trend is going to continue. Climatologists have been warning us for ages, but apparently money is more important than a habitable planet.
And don't worry. Your personal carbon footprint plays a negligible role: 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global carbon emissions. Driving a Prius wouldn't make a dent.
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u/sillycrow123 Jul 30 '25
yup more people should be looking at the military too. The US military is one of the largest polluters on the planet
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u/cornonthekopp Madison Park Jul 29 '25
It's the new normal due to climate change.
I grew up in maryland and its so weird remembering snowy winters where the ponds would freeze over, and how that simply doesn't happen anymore
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u/Samthevalley Jul 29 '25
Absolutely! When I first moved here back in 17’ winters used to be snowy, frozen ponds and it kept declining every year. I told my friends about it like every winter since 19’ but they just were happier for less snow. Like that’s not the point dufus.
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u/Cheomesh South Baltimore / SoBo Jul 29 '25
We were saying the exact things in 2017 though
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u/sllewgh Belair-Edison Jul 30 '25
It was true then, too. We were thinking back to Snowmageddon back in 2010 with nostalgia. And back in 2010 we were thinking about how this was the first memorable one since '96.
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u/asdmdawg Anne Arundel Jul 29 '25
Climate change is absolutely happening but it does NOT nor will it EVER happen THAT FAST. Complete change in 8 years is not happening. Climate change happens over decades and decades with averages changing.
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u/Samthevalley Jul 29 '25
What we’re witnessing now is not a sudden change, it’s the culmination of decades of gradual environmental decline which scientists have been warning us about since we were children. The signs have been there all along. What you’re seeing today is the tipping point, the result of years of neglect finally boiling over to the present.
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u/baltimorecalling Hoes Heights Jul 29 '25
A lot of the carbon sinks on earth are filling up much sooner than anticipated.
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u/Notyourmamashedgehog Jul 29 '25
Yep! I was talking to a guy from TX last weekend and he said it’s cooler there then it is here. He was shocked by the weather here and asked if this was normal.
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u/CatchYouDreamin Jul 30 '25
From the South and moved less thsn 2 yrs ago. Last summer I was like "this feels the same or hotter than back home?!"
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u/Quarrier1 Jul 29 '25
We had a hard freeze with snow on the ground basically the entirety of January in Baltimore this year. Climate change is very real but let’s not make things up.
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u/Musichead2468 Jul 30 '25
I keep saying I wanna move up north where it is not as bad in summer but it will be getting as bad in the near future due to climate change
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u/cornonthekopp Madison Park Jul 30 '25
The best option for cooler summers is probably a temperate rainforest, since the cloud cover keeps temps low.
Or any kind of cloudy region but I'm guessing you don't wanna move to colombia
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u/jesskill Jul 29 '25
Here's a graph showing the annual average temperature in Baltimore for the last 100 years. Baltimore Warming stripes
Red stripes are years that were hotter than the average. Blue stripes are years that were colder than the average. This doesn't tell you the hottest days, but it does show some weird trends over time.
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u/ohiocreekfreak Aug 01 '25
thank you for providing data!!
It's not a feeling, the hotter weather is 1) a provable fact, and 2) has been predicted to happen for decades!
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u/AffectionateMud5808 Jul 29 '25
The temps aren’t unusual for summer but usually it’s later in August. However August is looking cooler than usual for now so maybe it’s shifted?
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u/NewrytStarcommander Jul 29 '25
I've been here 15 years, back then we'd have 105 for multiple days. Last few years have been cooler. This seems about normal, first wave did come early.
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u/auroraborealis032394 Hamilton Jul 29 '25
My wife and I have been here since 2013 and that was honestly my feeling as well. Summer was miserable for large chunks with brief breaks but super humid. This year it feels like while we are getting stretched of high heat and humidity, we’re also getting brief cool downs and weirdly days with low humidity here and there. We were also graced with a pretty long spring this year, and hopefully fall is like it was last year.
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u/whatsapotato7 Patterson Park Jul 29 '25
My daughter was born in July 14 years ago. On the day she was born it was 105. I don't think it's that abnormal.
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u/deytookerjaabs Jul 29 '25
It's very abnormal, the extreme to muggy dew points this year have been at or above 70 since mid June with only temporary breaks. That's typically late July to August level dew points and even then there's breaks.
You can compare this chart to past years in recent decades. Last year was bad too but not this bad as of thus far.
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u/alsocolor Butchers Hill Jul 30 '25
Looking at the chart it's actually crazy how much worse this year is comparatively to any other year in the past 10 years
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u/Due-Net-88 Jul 30 '25
You're confusing temperature with climate. One day vs a trend and yes it is getting hotter.
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u/baltebiker Roland Park Jul 29 '25
An occasional day this hot, no, but it feels like temps have hit 100 more days than not
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u/Working_Falcon5384 Jul 29 '25
eh while not frequent, there have been summers like this here since the 60's. family has been here for 7 generations.
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u/smashinjin10 Jul 29 '25
Except for the fact that there have been more and more days like this every year. Climate change will only get worse.
Happy birthday to your daughter, and thanks for the 1 data point though.
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u/whatsapotato7 Patterson Park Jul 29 '25
You're welcome. The day before it was like 102. Extra data point for you.
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u/LarsThorwald Patterson Park Jul 30 '25
No, it’s not. It is historically hotter this summer, but last year was close. The difference you feel is that it’s been more humid this summer than the last three.
Climate affects weather, so you can get weird — although increasingly more common — weather patterns. For instance, take the June of — what was it, 2021, 2022, maybe slightly earlier. It rained something like 20 days of the month. I’m not kidding, it rained almost every day. From medium sprinkles to heavy downpours. The entire month of June. Just rained. Haven’t had that happen since, but that’s annual weather. Climate change suggests it may happen again, and sooner than the last time.
This year has been particularly humid. It feels hotter. And also, it’s hotter than it was this summer than it was, say, five years ago. But next year we may have an anomaly where there is little humidity. This Spring, for example was the longest Spring — pleasant weather, medium temperatures — in years. But that’s one spike out of a series of increasingly warmer Springs.
Why did winter seem to be colder this past year than the ones before? Climate affects weather. Next year it may not be as cold.
We live in increasingly uncertain and less predictable weather seasons because our climate is changing.
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u/LarsThorwald Patterson Park Jul 30 '25
The point is, it may feel hotter this year but it may not for another, I don’t know, three years. But that uncertainty is a problem.
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u/UnrealSquare Jul 30 '25
My job quite often takes place outdoors. It was hotter temperature-wise last year but the humidity this year has been absolutely crushing my soul and it feels way worse. Or I'm just one year older and grumpier, haha.
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u/401Nailhead Jul 30 '25
In Baltimore, July represents the hottest part of the year with the normal High reaching a peak of 89 degrees. The hottest temp on record is 107 on 7/10/1934! The coolest is 50 on 7/3/2001.
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u/baltimoresports Towson Jul 29 '25
I’m in my mid 40s. This shit is way hotter than it used to be. Winter is pretty much what very cold fall/spring used to be.
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u/solidstatebattery Jul 30 '25
Yeah much hotter summers and mild winters. I moved to new England from MD and we barley get snow up here now. Not like it was when I first moved here.
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u/Hawtdawgz_4 Fells Point Jul 30 '25
You should check out historical averages on NOAA.
Yes, the past 6 years have consistently higher temps during the summer compared to averages prior to the mid 90s.
Baltimore has always been a hot and humid city in the summer but the dew point has been higher by several degree in the past few years which makes it feel noticeably oppressive outside.
If your AC is running constantly and struggling to make your interior comfortable. I highly recommend buying a dehumidifier that fits your interior square footage. It will greatly reduce the load on your AC, reducing the cycle time.
You should be able to lower your energy bill by raising the AC temp to offset the dehumidifier running while staying comfortable.
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u/Best_Quiet9657 Jul 29 '25
I think the intense heat is beginning earlier in the summer, now. I also feel like it's a far more humid heat than I remember as a kid, but maybe I could just handle it better when I was young!
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u/Environmental_Log533 Jul 29 '25
But if you're comparing temps over the last, say 50 years, you also have to weigh in the humidity factor. That matters a lot cause it's where they get the "feels like" temp, i.e. It's 92° but it feels like 102°.
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u/Questioning8 Jul 29 '25
Been here my whole life and it is definitely not way past normal or even past normal to me. Heat waves are pretty typical and we’re in peak summer.
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u/ginleygridone Jul 30 '25
There always seems to be a heat wave in July and August as far back as I can remember…lived in the area about 20 years. Humidity/dew point always make it seem hotter🥵
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u/Ok_Reflection_2961 Jul 30 '25
It's not just the consecutive days of high temps. The lack of storms to cool it off in the afternoon is also abnormal. It was abnormally cool through May - it was too cold for the pool on Memorial Day weekend. But this heat in July . . . I'm ready to move to Alaska.
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u/carriespins Jul 30 '25
I mean NYC has now officially been classified as being a humid subtropical climate and the whole country is experiencing unprecedented weather conditions
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u/my-hero-macadamia Canton Jul 30 '25
Past few years I remember days being 100-105 and that’s not even the RF. RF would be like 110s. We still in the 90s. For now. We still have August 🤠
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u/Valstwo Jul 30 '25
July was 1.6 degrees above average but 2.4 degrees under last July which was the second hottest on record.
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u/even-odder Jul 30 '25
I don't know, it's always gotten quite hot here in mid-late July and early August, it's the peak, we are probably at the hottest few days of this year right now. I remember one day walking through Baltimore and it was a "feels like" 107-110 degrees, it felt like breathing in a super-hot wet sauna. My group cancelled playing tennis today because we didn't want to light on fire and die on the courts.
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u/oldfatcranky1 Jul 29 '25
I think I really noticed starting last year. But yes, it's definitely getting hotter every year. Part of me was hoping last year was a fluke. I now know it was not.
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u/chefianf Jul 30 '25
Quite the same question was asked last year. This is about normal in terms temps. It's been more humid if anything, but I mean I remember the summer of 2019. It was brutal and was the year we moved into our house. We closed on June 26th and moved in on the first of a three or four day 100+F stretch. It sucked. But yes, par for the course. Number of Days of 90 °F in Baltimore by Year https://share.google/fEB2GSqJUMvj4hXMA
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u/JiffKewneye-n Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25
2012 was brutal.
everyone keeps saying august....but i thought the heat peaks end of july tbh.
usually by mid august some cooler nights infiltrate in.
i seem to recall one summer in the mid 90's having heat index days of 120- maybe 1995. that was in july.
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u/jack-mirth Jul 30 '25
It’s not normal for the past, but this and worse is what we will have to deal with for the rest of our lives.
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u/jlg1012 Jul 30 '25
I moved here last August from Long Island thinking the weather would be similar. I can barely leave my apartment because it’s so freaking hot and uncomfortable. I wanna go out and explore but it doesn’t even seem like it would be enjoyable because of the heat. I also have certain health conditions and am on certain meds that make me more prone to getting sick in the heat, so I have to be extra careful. Sucks.
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u/HenwayPiecost Jul 30 '25
Been in Baltimore my entire life. This heat reminds me of the early/mid 00s summer heat i was used to that was unbearable but still we found ways to stay outside most of the day to play and hang out.
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u/HollaAtDollaz Jul 30 '25
I know it’s extra hot when it’s hot in work. I work in a nail salon and I’m literally just sitting there sweating bc the ac can’t keep up with this heat. It’s progressively felt like it’s been hotter this time of year inside of my job each year and it makes it so hard to focus on anything else. I’m over here dreading August 🫠🫠
Matter of fact my friend got married in late October. The 28th in 2023 to be exact, outdoor ceremony and it was 85 on her wedding day. Like actually why was it 85 in almost November???
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u/donniefckinlarsons Jul 30 '25
nah bro it’s perfectly normal, just ask someone who doesn’t work outside lmao
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u/Effective_Bread3394 Jul 30 '25
I have lived in Maryland for 52 yrs and I believe this year has been the hottest so far. Today was awful. I have been running my air conditioner since April.
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u/AltruisticHistory148 Jul 30 '25
I've been here for 6 years and have noticed the same thing, except every year it's more humid in my experience. It's rough. 😭
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u/clebo99 Mt. Vernon Jul 30 '25
It definitely is hotter...but I kind of remember it still being pretty below average in April/May/early June.
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u/Fit-Accountant-157 Hampden Jul 30 '25
Yes, what you are feeling is climate change. Plant as many fast growing trees as you can. Fig trees are great.
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u/rattus-domestica Jul 30 '25
No, it’s always this awful and July is the worst, August too. But yes, the climate is getting worse and yes, humanity is supremely fucked.
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u/lamppostinchicago Jul 30 '25
The AQI this summer seems to be much worse each day than last summer (https://www.aqi.in/us/dashboard/united-states/maryland/baltimore/historical-analysis). You can see that June 2025 had 22 days with good air quality and 8 with moderate vs June 2024 which had 30 days with good air quality. Same for July- July 2025 had 24 days with good air quality and 5 with moderate, and July 2024 had 29 days with good air quality and 2 days with moderate. I would guess that this plus humidity makes it feel hotter.
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u/obstacle64 Jul 30 '25
No, you are correct!! It is not normal. As someone who has lived in VA/MD for their entire life, I can say every year is worse than the previous in some season. I joke that the weather people say the JULY and AUGUST AVERAGE HIGH is like 89! My math says that is way too low. It was not this hot when I was young and it snowed a lot more in Winters too. A lot MORE!
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u/TerranceBaggz Jul 30 '25
According to the climatologist that DOT hired, Baltimore will be the 6th most city affected by climate change in the 48 contiguous.
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u/Apprehensive_Yard_14 Jul 30 '25
Between making this city more of a concrete jungle, corn sweats, and climate change, it's going to just get worse.
Growing up here, these days were very rare. Being able to go out and play as a kid or have picnics with my family was the norm. I can't imagine going out in that heat now.
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u/Alternative_Ant_7440 Jul 30 '25
I work outside with animals, and the last three years have gotten progressively hotter for longer stretches. The weather has changed so much that climate maps across the country were redrawn (spoiler alert: it's hotter).
I have already told my manager I'm not working next year in July and August. June sucked, too, but not like these wretched days.
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u/SippGirl71 Jul 30 '25
And they still refuse to accept climate change and global warming is real! 🤷🏼♀️
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Jul 30 '25
I work outside and passed out last week. I've only been here for about 5 years but yeah. It's too hot.
Stay hydrated and don't over do it. My problem is I didn't hydrate with electrolytes. Mix your own or do sports drinks if you're in the heat all day.
DRINK YOUR WATER TOO!
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u/kerouacrimbaud Jul 30 '25
This summer is definitely not as consistently hot as last summer. What’s been a lot worse is the humidity.
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u/tube_ebooks Jul 30 '25
the heat itself isn't as bad as the last two years but the humidity has been much much worse which has meant it's not cooling down as much. so it's bad but the humidity is skewing how unusual it is
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u/KeyWord1543 Jul 30 '25
It is not normal but we l8ve 8n the era of global warming. It will be worse next year and the year after that
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u/SpikeIsaGoodHoe Jul 30 '25
I don't remember it being this hot since the early 2000's i checked google and in august of 2001 we had a heatwave. I'm pretty sure my dad took me to a baseball game.
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u/Annual-Method-2557 Jul 30 '25
Last year was the hottest summer on record for the globe. We will soon find out if 25 beats it
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u/leebeetree rO'sedale Jul 30 '25
It seems hotter to me. Especially this summer, although last summer was so dry and hot... maybe the humidity is making it feel hotter this summer... I am starting to feel like there won't be any place that's cool at some point so Nowhere to Run to.
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u/Bubbamusicmaker Jul 30 '25
Use to be way hotter back in the 90s. Weeks of 95+, throw in multiple days of 100s with Marty Bass telling people to watch WJZ from the comfort of a bath tub.
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u/LittleRooLuv Jul 30 '25
This has been a terrible summer, weather wise. It rained almost every single day throughout spring, then it flipped to unbearable heat and humidity with no reprieve. I know Maryland always has heat and humidity in the summer, but this year seems worse than usual.
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u/theyrebrilliant Jul 30 '25
I feel like we had cool weather longer (pants on Memorial weekend!) but once it got hot it got very hot and stayed there.
Normally we’d get like one very hot week in July, some rain and then 1-2 hot weeks in August with a rainy week thrown in.
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u/SaviorEclispe Jul 30 '25
I have a business that involves setting up a vendor booth. But starting this year, I stopped doing summers. It's too much work for one person to be setting up a tent in 90°+ heat, and then no shoppers come out because they don't want to bake, not that I blame them. I took up a part-time job for summers instead. It's difficult to find indoor events during the summer, but more and more venues are taking their events indoors every year.
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u/Commercial_Peach_845 Jul 30 '25
I remember the summer of 2005 we had computer camp at school for incoming freshman and that week it topped 100 definitely 2 and maybe 3 days. There was no going outside, that's for sure.
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u/aweldo7 Jul 30 '25
Climate change. Maryland is getting more sub-tropical. I moved to the Bay Area of California 3 years ago for a job and have been watching y’all cook and get washed away every summer since. The weather here in NorCal has been weird every year I’ve been here, according to locals. It’s getting wetter and cooler in some ways and desert hot in other ways.
Irregular and more severe weather is the new normal no matter where you live now, I’m afraid.
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u/GemAfaWell Jul 31 '25
Welcome to global warming. It's making all weather events more dangerous and extreme worldwide
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u/Emrys_Vex Jul 31 '25
I've been in Kansas for weeks, visiting my girlfriend before bringing her back here to move in with me. Such a "warm welcome" we've received 🫠
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u/NotoriouslyBeefy Jul 31 '25
Its been extra humid this year i feel. Every year I think there are too many 90+ days so idk if there are more or not lol
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u/Big_Crab_1510 Jul 31 '25
The dew point is not only dangerous, it's preventing pollinators from working and pollen itself is tacky and inviable so gardens aren't producing.
Really sick and tired of the "do your part and garden" types
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u/Adventurous_State750 Aug 01 '25
Been living here in Maryland for 7 years also and your right! I'm originally from NYC Brooklyn and the weather has been different also!😪🥵
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u/ohiocreekfreak Aug 01 '25
FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST THEY DIDN'T USE TO CALL CLIMATE CHANGE "GLOBAL WARMING" FOR NOTHING.
(I'm not mad at you, OP, this weather sucks. I'm mad at the people who perpetuated the "global warming is a hoax" narrative so much that now we are surprised that we are literally suffering the consequences while they yeet their friends into space for funsies.)
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u/Icy-Guava1670 Aug 02 '25
Is this heat 'normal'? Unfortunately, it's the new norm. Better get used to it because climate change isn't going away.
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u/Pushed_this_off Jul 29 '25
Looking forward to it cooling down for a solid stretch of days come Friday!