July is here and summer is about to flex its muscle on us.

As you may have heard in our forecast, many areas across Wisconsin will be touching 90 degrees or hotter more than once over the next week. But having multiple days in a row of 90 degree heat hasn't happened in a while.

What You Need To Know


  • It's going to get hot over the next week in our state

  • Hitting 90 degrees more than 3 days in a row doesn't happen too often

  • This stretch may remind some people of 2012's summer sizzle

As of today, only a handful of us have seen temperatures top out above 90 degrees in 2020. Locales like Green Bay and Milwaukee have only done it once. And can you believe Madison hasn't hit 90 yet?!

But over the next week, we may see day after day of temps hitting 90. If that happens, it would be historical in some respects. 

Here's why I say that...

Let's start by taking a look at the last time we've had back-to-back days in the 90s, followed by three days in a row, and then four days in a row.

This is how it shakes out for Milwaukee:

As you can see, getting more than three days in a row hasn't happened in a long time! Two or three seems to be fairly common.


Let's move on and check out the stats for Madison:

Okay, no real surprise here.

Multiple days in a row of 90 degree heat is common. With no Great Lake to cool the air, it's easy for the Capital City to heat up. 

How about Green Bay? Since this area is a little farther north, having multiple days of 90s can be a little harder to do.

Or is it?

I figured Green Bay may have a harder time, but that's not true. Here again, we have to remember that Green Bay doesn't sit right next to a Great Lake (like Milwaukee does). Yes, the bay is there, but that body of water cannot moderate the temperature as much.


After running all of these numbers, I got to wondering: what's the longest stretch ever for each location? I was a little surprised by the results at first.

I would assume that Milwaukee would trail Green Bay, but no. This is where I think being farther north plays a role.


With a rather hot stretch of weather coming over this first week of July, I'm very curious to see how many 90 degree days in a row we can squeeze out.

Keep tabs on this blog and let's check back next week to see what happened!