Street Lights MELTING in Oklahoma

Worth a read.

Searing heat in the Heartland: Oklahoma’s hottest day ever?

The intense mid-continent heat ridge is presently stalled over Oklahoma and southern Kansas - where it’s also exceptionally dry. On Tuesday, this heat dome or “dome of drought” led to triple digit readings throughout Oklahoma’s entire “mesonet” of 120 weather stations for only the 4th time on record (since 1997).

It’s a similar story in Tulsa. The National Weather Service said Tulsa had its hottest all-time average temperature Tuesday and has a chance to match its all-time record high of 115 today

The recent round of extreme heat is just a year removed from Oklahoma’s hottest July on record in 2011. That proved to not only be the hottest month in state history, but also the hottest month experienced in any U.S. state since records began in 1895.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com]