The Great Heat Wave of 1936; Hottest Summer in U.S. on Record

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The Great Heat Wave of 1936; Hottest Summer in U.S. on Record
By: Christopher C. Burt, 10:10 PM GMT on July 21, 2011

The Great Heat Wave of 1936; Hottest Summer in U.S. on Record

As the eastern two-thirds of the United States continues to swelter under some of the hottest temperatures seen in recent years I thought it opportune to look back at the nation’s worst heat wave and hottest summer in history, that of 1936.

1936; A Year of Extremes

The climatological summer (June-August) of 1936 was the warmest nationwide on record (since 1895) with an average temperature of 74.6° (2nd warmest summer was that of 2006 with an average of 74.4°) and July of 1936 was the single warmest month ever measured with an average of 77.4° (beating out July 2006 by .1°). Ironically, February of 1936 was the coldest such on record with an average nationwide temperature of 26.0° (single coldest month on record was January 1977 with a 23.6° average). In February of 1936 temperatures fell as low as -60° in North Dakota, an all-time state record and Turtle Lake, North Dakota averaged -19.4° for the entire month, the coldest average monthly temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska. One town in North Dakota, Langdon, went for 41 consecutive days below zero (from January 11 to February 20), the longest stretch of below zero (including maximum temperatures) ever endured at any site in the lower 48.

With this in mind, it is truly astonishing what occurred the following summer. The temperature in North Dakota that had reached -60° on February 15 at Parshall rose to 121° at Steele by July 6, 1936. The two towns are just 110 miles from one another!

The Great Heat Wave

JUNE 1936

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/the-great-heat-wave-of-1936-hottest-summer-in-us-on-record.html

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20 years after my grandfather died my grandmother remarried to a long time work friend.

He was born in 1911, we got to talking one time about the summers of the '30's. He said they made frames and attached screen wire so they could sleep outside on the picnic tables without mosquitoes. Here in the Florida of Iowa it was getting up to about 115F every day. They'd start at dawn and work at most till mid-morning then hung in the shade till evening.

I asked him what the winters were like. He said brutal cold and snow to the top of the fenceposts as the article says. Really shoots the global warming narrative out of the water in my mind.