Another weather-related record bit the dust — or should we say cinders? — as Tuesday’s 95-degree temperature secured the summer of 2010’s title as the hottest on record in the Washington region.

The average temperature this year during June, July and August — the three months that make up the meteorological summer — isn’t official, but meteorologists at the National Weather Service were able to say with certainty that it would eclipse the record high average of 80 degrees set during the same three months back in 1980.