Memorably hot summer

Posted on September 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Memorably hot summer

It was a blistering hot one and, officially, as KVUE’s Mary Murray says, the hottest on record. But the hottest on record isn’t very impressive when you consider that the record only goes back to 1856. I’ll bet it’s been this bad and worse some other summers in the past few billion years. Of course there’s nobody able to contradict me on that.

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  1. Veeshir's avatar Veeshir | September 2, 2009 at 5:39 pm |

    And thermometers from a hundred years ago weren’t all that accurate so who knows what the temperatures really were.
    They probably barely had tolerances in the tenth of an inch much less ten thousands of an inch.
    And I doubt there was much of the “precision equipment” they did make running around Texas.
    Maybe a couple of the old Spanish cities had something, but if there was no law west of the Pecos, I doubt there were any good thermometers either.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm |

    Heh. Chauvinistic as I otherwise am about Tejas, I have to agree. On the other hand, Austin is well east of the Pecos.