Syracuse, NY - The temperature has risen to 90 degrees in Syracuse as of the 1:54 p.m. reading from the National Weather Service.
That inches Syracuse just a little bit closer to the 1955 record of 28 days in which the high temperature was 90 or warmer.
Today is the 20th day this year that the high temperature has reached the 90-degree mark. The temperature rose another degree to 91 for the 2:54 p.m. reading from the NWS.
The temperature first reached 90 on April 16. It topped 90 twice in May with a high of 93 May 29.
The temperature reached 90 five times in June, peaking at 95 degrees on both June 20 and 21. The thermometer topped 90 on 11 days in July, reaching a high of 101 on July 17.
That 1955 record could well be within reach given 90-degree temperatures are a fact of life in mid to late summer.
According to the weather service, the record high for every date in the month of August is 90 or higher with the exception of Aug. 23 when the record high stands at 89. The record high for 18 of the 30 days in September also has seen the temperature hit 90 or higher.
The NWS preliminary data shows that record highs have been set in Syracuse on 11 days in 2012, five of them on days when the temperature hit 90 or higher. The other six record highs were set during the unusually warm month of March.