Tag Archives: heat wave

Hellah Swelter

July 27, 2023 – 1:59 am

A horrid heatwave has scorched the Eastern Seaboard for the past four days. New York thermometers have read in the upper 90s. This evening I descended into the subway. The temperature rose 10 degrees Fahrenheit on each level. The train platform had to be in the 100s. I hurried into the air-conditioned train. A cool […]

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Stormy Weather NYC July 2022

July 26, 2022 – 10:29 am

The Northeast has been in the depth of a long drought worsened by a past week of plus-90 temperatures. I had planned to go up North, but the heat was too wicked for an old man and I opted to remain in New York. I haven’t left the apartment in days, except to get food. […]

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134 In The Shade

July 17, 2022 – 7:23 am

134 F on July 10, 191 at Greenland Ranch, California. Elevation -178 Read Death Valley. I was there in 1995. James Steele gets around.

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Death Valley Hot

July 17, 2022 – 2:17 am

A heat wave smothers the continental USA and the national weathermen are predicting that the temperature in Death Valley might hit 120 today. The manager of the Wrangler Restaurant in Furnace Creek on Tuesday closed the establishment after the ACs went on the blink, saying, “We can’t put customers through this — it’s just too […]

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And Now A Heat Wave

July 19, 2020 – 4:48 pm

The sun rose today and burned off the morning overcast. The temperature swiftly climbed from 80 F to 93 F by midday. I thought about traveling to Rockaway Beach, but I’m still nursing the aches and pains from of a bicycle crash. Tomorrow I need to go to the Diamond District and the weather services […]

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