July 1911 : American Heatwave Broke All Previous Records

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1. Ivan says:

   July 23, 2011 at 6:19 am

   …and even further back:
   “A RECORD OF HOT SUMMERS.
   IN 637 the heat was so great in France and Germany that all springs dried up, and water became so :scarce that many people died of thirst. In 873 work in the field had to be given up; agricultural labourers persisting in their work were struck down in a few minutes, so powerful was the sun. In 993 the sun’s rays were so fierce that vegetation burned up as under the action of fire. In 1000 rivers ran dry under the protracted heat; the fish were left dry in heaps, and putrified in a few hours….”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/58465077?

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2. Gator says:

   July 23, 2011 at 7:19 pm

   The past two days our record highs were from 1911. If I plot a line from the high July 22nd 1911 to the high yesterday, I get a 7F temperature decline! And a .7F per decade decline! Eeek! New ice age!!!

   The rest of our record highs for the past few weeks have almost all been from 1934. I’m sorry, it’s getting what?

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