Top 10 warmest days in Springfield since 1879
112 — July 14, 1954
110 — July 14, 1936
108 — July 13, 1936
108 — July 12, 1936
108 — Aug. 9, 1934
108 — Aug. 8, 1934
107 — July 15, 1936
107 — July 22, 1901
107 — July 24, 1901
106 — Aug. 18, 1936
Days at or above 90 degrees in Springfield
69 — 1936
64 — 1913, 1934
63 — 1944
62 — 1983
58 — 1953
Is that the unadjusted calendar? You need the value-added calendar.
Every proper climatologist knows history only started in 1979.
I don’t have the records in front of me, but recall that it was as hot as 117 in Illinois (eastern suburbs of St. Louis) during the 1954 heatwave.
“EXTREME HEAT IN EUROPE.
LONDON, July 5.
At Heidelberg yesterday the temperature in the shade was 97 degrees Fahrenheit. At Rome the temperature was 104, being the highest for 74 years. Cases of sunstroke, which proved fatal, occurred at Rome, Milan, and at Pola, in Austria.”
~5 July 1905
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