During July and August 1936, Nebraska afternoon temperatures averaged 98 degrees, and they had twenty-nine days which the average afternoon temperature was over 100 degrees.
Syracuse, Nebraska afternoon temperatures averaged 102 degrees during July/August 1936, eleven degrees warmer than this summer.
The graph below shows every 100 degree temperature every recorded during July/August in Nebraska since 1895. The black dot is the mean temperature. The three hottest days in Nebraska were July 17, 24 and 25, 1936.
