Half of the population of Oklahoma fled the state during the 1930s to escape the heat and drought. The graph below shows why. There are 33 HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1930. During the summer of 1936, there were 268 110ºF temperatures recorded at those stations, or an average of almost nine per station. This year there were no 110ºF temperatures recorded.
Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/
NOAA has made all kinds of wildly fraudulent claims about Oklahoma, 2011 being the hottest summer ever in any state, but it didn’t rank in the top five – and wasn’t even in the same league as 1936.
How dare you use unbiased, unadjusted stations that have been around for a long time. That is cherry picking!