Hot town, summer in the city: New York breaks record for hottest July 22 ever and DC feels like 120F

Daily Mail ^ | 12:52 AM on 23rd July 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter

[Niuhuru]

Americans sweltered today in the scorching heat in what was officially the hottest day of the year in scores of cities across the country.

The heatwave covered a million square miles, affecting 141million Americans.

New York's Manhattan experienced the hottest ever July 22 recorded, with an overwhelming 104-degree temperature in Central Park.

The Washington DC region continued to be smothered in heat and humidity with temperatures reaching 102 degrees but with a heat index of more than 120 - hotter than Death Valley at daybreak

[bikerman]

But I don't work in an air-conditioned cubicle,

I have never worked in a air conditioned cubicle have always worked outdoors in Florida yes its hot but you cope with it, drink lots of water summer is hot just as winter is cold.Wait till winter everyone complaining about the heat will be whining about how freaking cold it is. Get rid of the heat index BS its 92 or 17 degrees period not feels like 105 or 5 degrees.This is just another tool for the global warming crowd to use to get their dirty deeds done.

[1rudeboy]

I use it as a tool, and I’m not part of the global-warming crowd. I also don’t feel threatened by the metric system, either.

[Eye of Unk]

I know almost everybody here will hate me but I had a real scorcher of a day yesterday, might have been the hottest day of the year so far...

It was 76 degrees in Wasilla, Alaska.

usually we get a week or two of days just over 70F, and rarely usually about every other year might break 80F for a couple of days.

Sorry for those trying to cope with the heat, look at it this way, you would never survive our winters then.

And I cannot ever visit a Florida theme park other than in january and I almost pass out at 85F.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It got mighty hot on July 4 1966 before glo-bull warming when few could afford air conditioners.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USNY0981?climoMonth=7

I don’t necessarily believe these “high temp” readings. Back in 1972 the temperature in Tulsa OK was 105 degrees on May 5. Our thermometer registered 105. All the news channels were commenting on the 105 degree heat, but when I looked up the ACTUAL local temp on the internet it was far less.

It must have been the concrete buildings downtown that radiated heat and caused it registered much higher.

Our temp here in the Ozarks was 101 a few days ago. another person a few miles from here registered 104 on her thermometer so it varies from place to place.

[ken5050]

I see to recall during a heat wave in the south in the 90’s, Clinton passed a program..millions to buy ACs for poor people....anyone know how that worked out?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Obama has kept his promise! I got my electric bill yesterday! It is the highest bill I have EVER HAD since the heat wave of 1983!