With the temperature reaching 102 degrees by 3 p.m. in Central Park, breaking the record high of 101 degrees for the day set in 1999....


[www.nytimes.com]



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I heard it was 103 yesterday, one of the ten hottest days since they started keeping records. Yuck. The subway station yesterday at second ave on the lower east side was the stinkiest station I've ever been in.

We're in the middle of a heatwave here in the South East of England too!

I'm always amused when I see you guys talking about it being 103 degrees, etc. That was the normal summer temperature for around 2 months of the summer where I grew up.

english shopper Wrote:
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> We're in the middle of a heatwave here in the
> South East of England too!

July 4 1999 the temp was 95 degrees at midnight How long did the Heat Wave of 1999
in NYC Last? I remember many mornings started out at 90-95 degrees.

More than a century ago, though, New York was staggered by a heat wave during which temperatures reached the mid-90s—several degrees cooler than the 100-degree days already seen in the city this year. The 10-day heat wave, which began on Aug. 4, 1896, was a catastrophe. In "Hot Time in the Old Town," an engrossing account of this forgotten episode, Edward P. Kohn estimates that 1,300 people died in Manhattan and Brooklyn (the latter was technically not part of New York City at the time) as a result of high temperatures, high humidity and the unforgiving sun.


[online.wsj.com]



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