Meteorologist: ‘This Heat Wave Is Child’s Play Compared to 1930s’

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 15, 2016 | 4:54 PM EDT | Penny Starr

[Parley Baer]

When is comes to weather Joe Bastardi is the man.

[headstamp 2]

“Joe, You magnificent Bastardi!”

[txrefugee]

Texans baked in 105 temperatures in 1935....without air conditioning! We’d never make it today.

[Hildy]

All a bunch of wusses. I live in a place called Bullhead City, AZ where the AVERAGE temperature this month is 122 degrees.

[RayChuang88]

The 1930's was the period of the Dust Bowl, when essentially no rain in the Great Plains wiped out most of the agriculture of the Midwest. It wasn't until the rains returned in 1938 that agricultural production started to return to normal.

[CrazyIvan]

“Texans baked in 105 temperatures in 1935”

First year for the Chevy Suburban. Damn those global warming causing SUVs!

[SkyDancer]

Long before there were such things as global warming or climate change.

[DuncanWaring]

Not according to these guys:

https://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:86426.1.99999

or these:

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/USAZ0023:1:US

[rellimpank]

—there are still remaining 1930’s high records in the upper midwest-

—Lead, SD has highest and lowest temps yet in 1936-—minus 36F and 100F-—

[SamAdams76]

Joe Bastardi is the best in the business. I have no idea how I’m going to get my weather after he dies. I don’t trust the other ones.

[mware]

Any predictions for this winter yet?

[txrefugee]

Texans baked in 105+ temperatures in 1936...without air conditioning! (We’d never make it today.) The heat wave was nationwide and over 5000 Americans died that summer. This was during the dust bowl and the Great Depression, yet we don’t read about riots during these calamitous times. How small our national character has shrunk since that age of tough Americans.

[Blue Jays]

Yes, but that is a dry heat. ;-)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Indeed we would not be great if Americans did not die in the summer. Non wusses will gladly flirt with the grave for the sake of a place, not even a mission in a place.

Irony intended of course. This does not excuse RIOTS but we are not expected to brag on our earthly hardihood in vanity either.

[GregoTX]

Long before there were such things as global warming or climate change.

And now that we have global warming and climate change we have a solution: vote for democrats, raise taxes, empower more federal bureaucracies, cripple free market growth and push global agendas.... oh and bring in more illegal aliens and refugees.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Pray for the sun to become less spotty. This will bring us cooler climates.

[Georgia Girl 2]

No hotter place on the face of the earth than DC in the summer. Mom and Dad used to drag us up there on vacay every couple of years.

[Olog-hai]

Like you point out, many didn’t make it. Most of the victims were in the cities.

[SkyDancer]

Yep, that should bring down temperatures to normal; what is the normal anyway?