Many native St. Louians are saying, I've lived in St. Louis all my life and we've never sustained this kind of heat for so long a period of time. Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed a graph by the National Weather Service that made me wonder.
In 1936, temperatures of 100 degrees or more were sustained here for 37 days. Yet, last year and the year before, we experienced only six days of sustained heat. This year, a good part of the country if not the world, is experiencing weather of more than a 100 degrees sustained day after day. It is hard to remember a time when people had no fans or air conditioners, unfortunately some still don't have either, as we are told to take precautions against the heat. But I do wonder how personal discomfort squares with history?
Whatever, it is hot!
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