The hottest temperature this month in McPherson was 108 degrees, nine degrees cooler than 1936. Experts tell us that 2012 heatwave is comparable to the 1930s – because they are completely incompetent.
Kansas Temperatures - July 24, 1936 MCPHERSON 117 MINNEAPOLIS 117 ELLSWORTH 116 HAYS 1 S 116 NORTON 9SSE 116 MANHATTAN 115 WAKEENEY 115 OBERLIN 114 LAWRENCE 112 ASHLAND 111 COLDWATER 111 EL DORADO 111 LARNED 111 OTTAWA 111 SAINT FRANCIS 111 LAKIN 110 MEDICINE LODGE 110
I was an undergraduate student in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1956-1959.
One of those summers we had three or four successive days of temperatures in the range of 113-118 (as I recall from memory, ~65 years later)