St. Louis is seeing some unbelievable heat this summer: On Wednesday, the city hit 108 degrees, Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters said. “This marked the 11th day this summer in St. Louis with temperatures of at least 105 degrees,” he says, “beating the old record of 10 such days in 1934.”
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The closest USHCN station to St. Louis is at Warrenton, Missouri. Here are their official maximum temperatures for July 1936.
88 94 97 104 104 102 104 103 103 106 105 106 107 111 111 104 104 100 100 91 91 96 105 105 106 107 108 104 93 90 89
There were eleven days 105 and above and two days 110 and above. The average high that month was 101.23 They had sixteeen days in a row over 100 degrees.
July 2012 has seen no days over 110 and the average maximum has been 99 degrees – more than two degrees cooler than 1936. The longest stretch over 100 degrees this month was four days.
July 1936 was much hotter in St. Louis than July 2012.
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