Posted on 08/16/2016 11:36:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi says the current heat wave in most parts of the U.S. which tied the 135-year-old record temperature in Washington, D.C. on Saturday is childs play compared to the 1930s. [ ]
Washington area farmers were certainly not spared in 1930, as intense, prolonged hot spells gripped the region during late July and early August, according to a 2010 article in the Washington Post. The official temperature recorded on July 20 was 106°F, which holds the record as the highest temperature ever recorded in Washington.
Unofficially, 110°F was recorded that same day on Pennsylvania Avenue and 108°F at the National Cathedral, the article continued. The summer of 1930 also set the record at 11 for number of days where temperatures reached or exceeded 100°F.
By the end of the summer of 1930, approximately 30 deaths in Washington were blamed on the heat and thousands more had died nationwide, the Post article said.
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The sun is becoming less spotty.
Certainly having so much concrete now versus 1935 has not helped the situation either. Houses are designed differently now than back then - totally air tight and a lot of windows don’t even open. We also didn’t build one house on top of another. We had a huge attic fan and fans in every bedroom.
Clothes were dried outside on a clothes line and my mom cooked in the morning from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., including baking a pie or cake for dinner that night.
We survived for a lot of years quite well. Remember being cold a whole lot more than I remember being hot.
If the glo-bull warmers had been around then they would have been committing mass suicide so as not to burn up in the inferno which was to come, which did not come.
Should that keep up long enough, this would presage a less radiant sun and the conditions that are known during ice ages.
Phobes of global warming should be careful what they scream for. They might get it.
My best friend (Army together in the mid sixties) lives there too. Often in the Summer he sends me a photograph of his thermometer indicating just what you posted. He’s a retired Police Captain, L.A.P.D.
Did it get its name from that you’d have to be a bull head to want to keep living there? :-)
No, but good try! I love it here.
Listening to her experiences growing up out there in the early 1900's was unlike anything I'd ever read in a book.
Is it really ever possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk?
Be an optimist! He might outlive you... ;-)
Only with a permit from the Health Department.
He very well good! He keeps in mighty good shape.
Just remember that SecState Kerry says that air conditioning is a major contributor to global warming and should be banned. I wonder if he order the A/C in the State Department turned off this week to show he is leading the battle?
Weather stats are composites of every day they have records for.
Rare occurrences of weather patterns are normal. Today is normal, it was normal two years ago when Lake Michigan froze over, it was normal when the ice caps were melting, it was normal now that they're on the way back, it's normal every day.
Enjoy the weather today, it's the only weather you have........and like they say, if you don't like it, just wait a while..........
Alas, this is bad news for the human race. Shorter summers mean much lower agricultural output, and the human population cannot withstand a major drop in global agricultural output.
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