PHOENIX – It might be a good time to make sure those air conditioners are working.
The Valley forecast calls for record-setting heat in the coming days, including the first triple-digit temperatures of 2025.
“We could be looking at actually multiple daily record high temperatures being broken during the stretch of heat that we’re going to be seeing,” Ryan Worley of the National Weather Service in Phoenix told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Wednesday morning.
Tuesday’s high at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, which the NWS uses for the city’s official readings, was 94 degrees, about 10 degrees above normal for this time of year.
Highs are expected to reach the middle to upper 90s on Wednesday before hitting at least 100 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Friday is expected to be the warmest of those days.
Valley forecast calls for 3 days of 100 degrees or more
Triple-digit temperatures would tie or break the daily heat records for those dates. The records are 100 degrees for Thursday (from 2018) and 99 for both Friday (2023) and Saturday (1936).
On average, Phoenix’s first triple-digit day of the year arrives on May 2, according to the NWS.
“It’s not completely out of the ordinary to see this kind of heat this early in the year, but certainly it’s not what we typically would see,” Worley said.
So far this year, the hottest temperature in Phoenix was 99 degrees on March 25, a record for the date.
Down the road, temperatures are expected to start dropping Sunday, when the Valley forecast calls of highs in the middle to lower 90s.
“There might be a few spots that actually see some readings in the 80s by the middle portion of next week, which is a little more typical for this time of the year,” Worley said. “Thankfully … not an extended period of abnormally warm conditions.”
KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Colton Krolak contributed to this report.
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