On this date in 1901, afternoon highs exceeded 100° from California to Maine. Every state except for Alaska and Hawaii was ≥90°, 28 states were ≥100° and four states measured temperatures ≥110°.
It was 116° in OK; 112° in KS; 110° in AZ and NE; 109° in MO; 108° in IA; 107° in AL and CA; 106° in AR, MN, TX, UT and WI; 105° in IL and TN; 104° in CO and MS; 103° in ID, LA and IN; 102° in KY, SD, WV and WY; 101° in ME and OH and 100° in MT and NM.
There's nothing unprecedented about this heatwave, its extent or magnitude. Typical weather expected to occur at some point during the summer.
All it took was a few minutes of data mining to figure this out. Your mistake rests on the case of putting your feelings before facts.
I can't recall a heat wave that stretched fm Miami to Oregon, or that had all types of heat simultaneously (sultry ---> scorching, dry heat). Exceptional and deadly.
** This peaks today, but it's not fading quickly into the night
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