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Blacksburg, VA 37.204°N, 80.414°W · station RNKthr · 134 years of record
93°F
HOTTEST JUL 16 SINCE 1983
forecast high · Jul 16
NWS NDFD forecast high temperature for Blacksburg.
73° MON 7/13 83° TUE 7/14 92° WED 7/15 93° THU 7/16 92° FRI 7/17 91° SAT 7/18 88° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 16
Today ranks #5 / 128
warmest Jul 16 in 128 yrs of record
Hottest Jul 16 ever 95°F
set in 1936
Coolest Jul 16 ever 70°F
set in 1897
Hottest Jul 16 — Year by Year
Every year's high on Jul 16 at Blacksburg. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the hottest on record.
70 82 95 1893: 88°F 1894: 87°F 1895: 82°F 1896: 86°F 1897: 70°F 1898: 86°F 1899: 89°F 1900: 91°F 1901: 88°F 1902: 80°F 1903: 72°F 1904: 86°F 1905: 90°F 1906: 85°F 1907: 81°F 1908: 83°F 1909: 80°F 1911: 82°F 1912: 82°F 1913: 86°F 1914: 82°F 1915: 88°F 1916: 71°F 1917: 81°F 1918: 84°F 1919: 85°F 1920: 77°F 1921: 79°F 1922: 81°F 1924: 82°F 1925: 87°F 1926: 80°F 1927: 86°F 1928: 77°F 1929: 76°F 1930: 76°F 1931: 93°F 1932: 91°F 1933: 83°F 1934: 93°F 1935: 86°F 1936: 95°F 1937: 89°F 1938: 85°F 1939: 80°F 1940: 80°F 1941: 78°F 1942: 90°F 1943: 87°F 1944: 85°F 1945: 75°F 1946: 78°F 1947: 82°F 1948: 70°F 1949: 82°F 1950: 80°F 1951: 87°F 1952: 89°F 1953: 85°F 1954: 91°F 1955: 90°F 1956: 81°F 1957: 88°F 1958: 87°F 1959: 77°F 1960: 79°F 1961: 82°F 1962: 84°F 1963: 83°F 1964: 82°F 1965: 80°F 1966: 83°F 1967: 74°F 1968: 85°F 1969: 84°F 1970: 88°F 1971: 80°F 1972: 78°F 1973: 78°F 1974: 83°F 1975: 71°F 1976: 81°F 1977: 89°F 1978: 82°F 1979: 86°F 1980: 85°F 1981: 82°F 1982: 85°F 1983: 93°F 1984: 85°F 1985: 87°F 1986: 83°F 1987: 71°F 1988: 86°F 1990: 78°F 1992: 90°F 1993: 85°F 1994: 90°F 1996: 83°F 1997: 88°F 1998: 84°F 1999: 85°F 2000: 81°F 2001: 80°F 2002: 83°F 2003: 83°F 2004: 81°F 2005: 82°F 2006: 85°F 2007: 85°F 2008: 79°F 2009: 76°F 2010: 88°F 2011: 74°F 2012: 82°F 2013: 86°F 2014: 77°F 2015: 77°F 2016: 84°F 2017: 84°F 2018: 87°F 2019: 89°F 2020: 86°F 2021: 84°F 2022: 85°F 2023: 85°F 2024: 92°F 2025: 86°F 93° forecast 1893 1936 2025 Forecast high · Jul 16 93°F Hottest this date since 1983 This-date record 95°F This-date rank #5 of 128
Hottest at any time since 2026 All-time record 100°F (1926) Odds to tie/break 80.0% (daily) Period of record 1893–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Blacksburg in each calendar month, and for the whole 1893–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 75°F 1932 -18°F 1985 Feb 80°F 2018 -12°F 1895 Mar 86°F 2020 -2°F 1900 Apr 95°F 1957 10°F 1923 May 93°F 1902 23°F 1973 Jun 99°F 1914 30°F 1972 Jul 100°F 1926 34°F 1905 Aug 99°F 1983 35°F 1917 Sep 97°F 1925 22°F 1983 Oct 94°F 2019 13°F 1962 Nov 82°F 2004 -1°F 1908 Dec 75°F 1984 -27°F 1917 All-time 100°F 1926 -27°F 1917
Records set or tied at Blacksburg so far this year — through Jul 12.
Record Highs in 2026 7 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 0 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a high ≥ 90°F
Longest ever 11 days
record run, ended Jul 18 1936
So far in 2026 6 days
days with a high ≥ 90°F this year
Normal high & low by month, from Blacksburg's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal high: 83°F · forecast is +10° vs normal .
Jan: 42°F Jan: 22°F Feb: 46°F Feb: 25°F Mar: 54°F Mar: 30°F Apr: 64°F Apr: 39°F May: 72°F May: 49°F Jun: 79°F Jun: 57°F Jul: 83°F Jul: 61°F Aug: 82°F Aug: 60°F Sep: 76°F Sep: 53°F Oct: 66°F Oct: 41°F Nov: 55°F Nov: 31°F Dec: 45°F Dec: 26°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 5:12 AM Sunset 7:43 PM Solar noon 12:27 PM Daylight 14h 31m · losing 7 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 37.20°N, 80.41°W Blacksburg's observed daily high for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Blacksburg's own record — the record high, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's high at Blacksburg, coloured by temperature — 134 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given high at Blacksburg — counted through Jul 16 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running hot. Pick a threshold:
70° 75° 80° 85° 90° 95° 100° 105° 110°
6 days ≥90°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 15th most in 134 years. Normal for this point: 2 . Record: 19 in 1914.
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