2020 becomes Chicago’s hottest summer on record
Chicago’s meteorological summer didn’t set too many records as it happened, but higher-than-normal temperatures each month stacked up to make for the hottest summer on record, according to the National Weather Service.
The average temperature the months of June, July and August was 76.7 degrees, besting the average temperature of 76.4 degrees set in 1955, according to Jake Petr, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Chicago-area office.
The average high temperature for the season was 86.2 degrees, 4.3 degrees above the 1981 to 2010 average high temperature, according to the weather service.
As for record daily highs, “there weren’t really very many,” Petr said.
