RIP Dolly sad news.

RIP Dolly Parton.

Looking at where things stand now and factoring in the expected upcoming temps for this final week of August, it appears that ORD will probably finish met summer around +0.5 or so. It's more common to get cool summers in the strong Nino years, but there was a group of summers that finished fractions of a degree above average, as this one will do.

I did a quick look and PHX has never had a direct hit from a tropical storm, but rather, remnants of systems and the last big one was back in 2014 producing a 1-1000 year flood event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Norbert_(2014)