Autumn may have arrived but Phoenix is still breaking heat records, with Thursday marking the hottest Sept. 27 on record and Friday’s forecast is expected to break that date’s record, too. Phoenix hit 110 degrees Thursday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. That broke the record set in 1989, when the temperature reached 108, according to the weather service.
The high forecast for Friday is 113, which would break the record of 107 degrees set in 2009, said meteorologist Gabriel Lojero of the National Weather Service. Saturday will get even hotter, but Lojero offered a silver lining.”Saturday looks to be the peak of everything,” he said. The expected high for Saturday is a scorching 115 degrees.
“We may be breaking record high temperatures for at least six, seven consecutive days,” Lojero said. “We’re shattering these records by at least five degrees.”
Temperatures for the rest of the weekend and the first part of next week will hover around 110 degrees.
Thursday marked “three consecutive days of breaking record high temperatures,” Lojero said.