July 1936 : Record Heatwave

 

The mean temperature in Des Moines was eight degrees warmer than July 2011, with twelve consecutive days over 100 degrees.

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2 Responses to July 1936 : Record Heatwave

  1. Ivan says:

    Slightly O/T:
    A summary of Mississippi flooding, ~1718-1850
    The Causes and Effects of Great Floods
    ~16 May 1882
    http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/852000?

  2. Ivan says:

    The Climate of Eastern England 1250-1350
    The many chroniclers of Eastern Europe were very clear that there were four climatic periods in the century 1250-1350 — a wet period, interspersed with summer droughts in 1250-72; a warm and dry period from the summer of 1272 to the autumn of 1289; a forty-year period of unparalleled wet and misery from the poor harvest of 1289 to the good harvest of 1326; and a period of less inclement weather from 1326 to 1350.”
    http://www.jstor.org/pss/40274333

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