Saturday, July 7, 2012

Heat wave: Midwest plain 'out of whack' as records shatter

LA Times: It's not that the Midwest hasn't been extremely hot before, and it's not that it hasn't been incredibly dry. But it's unusual for a vast swath of the Midwest to be so very hot and so very dry for so very long -- particularly this early in the summer. The current heat wave -- which is spurring comparisons to the catastrophic heat of 1936 -- is "out of whack," meteorologist Jim Keeney said Friday in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "Even on the East Coast today, temperatures are 100...

URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-midwest-heat-relief-20120706,0,5668282.story
Enclosure: http://www.trbimg.com/img-4ff74301/turbine/la-na-nn-midwest-heat-relief-20120706-001/600

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