A heat wave is expected to affect the Twin Lakes Area next week and could bring with it triple digit temperatures. While highs over 100 degrees are not uncommon in this area, it is something that has not happened in an unusually long time.
It’s been nearly eight years since a temperature of 100 or more has been recorded in Mountain Home. A check of weather records at KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station in Mountain Home for the National Weather Service, shows Aug. 5, 2012 was the last time the thermometer hit triple digits with a high of 103 that day.
You have to go back two years to find the last time a 99 degree temperature was recorded. That occurred July 14, 2018.
Going back to the summer of 2012, it was one of the hottest ever in Mountain Home. That year saw 19 days with temperatures of 100 or more and seven days with a high of 99. On June 28 that year, a high of 107 was recorded.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Mountain Home happened Aug. 9, 1934, when the high was 114. Six of the top 10 hottest temperatures ever in Mountain Home happened during the summer of 1934.
The second highest temperature in Mountain Home is 112 degrees which has happened three times, including Aug. 3, 2011.
While we have had some hot days this summer, the highest temperature reading so far this year actually happened April 8, when the mercury hit 91 degrees.
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