[rktman]

Blasphemy! I remember summer in Carmel Valley, Ca in the mid 1950's. Yeah, it was friggin' hot.

[Darksheare]

“You’re confusing climate with weather” -actual BS said in response to recalling correctly what it was like at any past historical point.
This last November, before winter even started, they said the winter was the “Warmest Winter EVER™®©”.
Without it even starting yet.

[Jeff Chandler]

[HamiltonJay]

Definitely the hottest in terms of days over 90 so far this year where I amtgat I can recall, at least since I moved here in the mid 80s.

Weather is like that, sometimes you have a hot year, sometimes a cold year, sometimes a wet year.... this year has definitely been a over average hot here so far this year.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember the 1960s Arkansas. Hotter than he!! and no ac at all. It was so hot all a kid could do was go to his room, lay on the bed and let the sweat roll off you. Nights were just as bad as it did not cool down and you woke up several times in the night from the heat and the bed sheets would be soaked in sweat.

Old timers used to take their beds outside and sleep under a tree.

[aquila48]

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[ken in texas]

Yep, we’ve always had hot weather. 1980, our first full summer here in the Dallas area, was the year we hit 113 three days in a row, from Jun 26-28.

[BBell]

Remember when the weather forecasters use to put up their maps with actual temperatures instead of heat indexes?

[DNME]

In Massachusetts I remember the temps hitting 100 for a day or three every summer, without fail.

We’re in a “heat wave” right now but the temps are in the mid-90s. I have not seen the mercury hit a buck in 15 years, easily.

[TigersEye]

Glowbull Warming causes memory distortion.

[Pontiac]

Nope – they didn't have a TV, and the heat index was not developed until 1978, around the time the current global warming scare started.

Not quite right. The author says he was born in 1953 so he should know better.

In 1978 the Leftist scientist were worrying about Global Cooling and a coming Ice Age.

But a few years latter the temperatures were obviously warming and they changed the name to Global Warming.

Only the name was changed the strategy still the same. Convince the public that man is causing the climate to change and we need to have control of everything so that we can stop it.

[fella]

I remember how hot it used to get before air conditioning.

[Spok]

It’s no longer just a heat wave; now it has political ramifications. Capitalism is responsible for everything from hurricanes to sun spots and bad hair days.

[Mears]

I grew up on the top floor of a Boston three decker,with a tar roof.

BRUTAL heat and no home ACs in those days,the 30s and 40s——we didn’t even own a fan.

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[eyedigress]

Bailing hay in TN. 1970’s. 102-105 ambient. Those damn barns were hell, not to mention the wasps and long sleeve cotton shirts.

Global Cooling all the rage.

[cornfedcowboy]

I’ve noticed the weather has been changing too.

[Intolerant in NJ]

For no particular reason at all except to see what I could see, I started keeping a log of record high info for the Philly area as presented by one of the local TV weather girls - started last April - since she doesn't present the info every night, I've got only 14 entries, but they do represent a random sample since she seems to present them when she has time and gets around to it - format is: Date, average high, record high (date of record high);
April 9, 62, 90 (1929); April 16, 64, 88 (1941); April 18, 65, 94 (1976); April 21, 66, 89 (1979); April 23, 67, 91 (1960); April 29, 69, 90 (1974); May 13, 73, 93 (1881); May 19, 75, 96 (1962); May 25, 77, 96 (1991); June 6, 80, 100 (1925); June 8, 81, 99 (2011); June 11, 82, 95 (1986); June 12, 82, 95 (2015); June 25, 85, 98 (1952).
I know, I know, it's much too small a sample, and I don't account for biases such as that she might not present the material on nights when there are weather extremes which would invalidate randomness and on and on - but still it is remarkable to me that for the three months from early April to late June the range of record highs as captured here is only 12 degrees, from 88 to 100 - as recorded in the years 1941 and 1925 respectively - the earliest date of a record high was 1881 - and that high of 93 was exactly mid-range - global warming indeed......