August’s heat in Houston was a 1-in-10,000-year event

[Ptarmigan]

August’s heat in Houston was a 1-in-10,000-year event
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/09/au ... ear-event/

August 2011 is the hottest month on record for Houston. It is a very rare event from a statistical standpoint.

[jasons2k]

Seriously? That's just insane. None of us have ever seen anything like it. We've seen 100-year freezes and even 500-year floods...but never a 10,000-year event - ever, for anything.

[unome]

here's a graphic from NCDC in the WU blog by Dr. Richard Rood, excellent read, insane summer in tx

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyR ... trynum=206


Figure 1: Each dot represents a day where temperatures met or exceeded 100 degrees F.