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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Erin Douglas and Yuriko Schumacher

REVEALED: Texas just recorded its second hottest summer on record | Vintage Vibes

Tumbleweeds cling to a barbed wire fence approximately 10 miles north of Brownfield on the Lubbock Road. High winds kicked up a dust storm that blanketed parts of West Texas on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 14, 2023.
Texas just recorded its second-hottest summer since record-keeping began, behind only the scorching summer of 2011. (Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune)

The summer of 2023 will go down as Texas’ second hottest ever, with an average temperature of 85.3 degrees between June and the end of August, the state’s climatologist said, just behind the blistering hot and extremely dry summer of 2011 when the average temperature hit 86.8 degrees.

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