A little Weather Recap of Detroit From 1936

"firsthand recollection very likely have never heard of the July when the summer turned killer."

From the article Hmm July......

"This one was different, though, not only in the number it killed but in the very intensity of the heat. Records for high temperatures set during that summer still stand in 15 states, including Michigan. In Kansas and North Dakota, it reached 121 degrees, marks surpassed in this country only in the deserts of the Southwest. In Mio, Mich., the mercury leveled out at 112. In Duluth, Minn., which had never topped 100 degrees before, stifling, incredulous residents camped out on the Lake Superior shore. Detroit had counted only seven days of 100-degree readings in the 63 previous years since the U.S. weather station started official readings here. That mark would be equalled in the space of seven days."

From The Detroit News: [link to apps.detnews.com]


WOW 121 Degrees in michigan

"104 at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, then started to slide. A massive thunderstorm swept across the city. Crowds on Belle Isle were drenched by the sudden deluge as they ran for buses and cars. By midnight it was below 70 for the first time in a week, and at 5:30 a.m. it bottomed out at 61. It was over"

From The Detroit News: [link to apps.detnews.com]


Sounds Familiar to last weeks Events and this weeks events here but not as strong Will it Escalate to that level or more this july 13th?

Glad to have AC this time in life....Yet I am Very positive Michigans Electrical Grid will Fail on a 120 degree day.

So anyone have any ideas what the Weather has in store for us these coming days?

It doesn't say that, the highest temp quoted for Michigan was 112 in Mio.

But anyway...

you freaks can't blame it on HAARP!

Yea I know Haha Thats to irritate people who actually Read it.

I blame Canada.

They burned too much moose shit the previous winter.

Really good read.

Thanks!

Read up on the Dust Bowl. History DOES REPEAT.

"The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936..."
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

"The 1936 North American heat wave was the most severe heat wave in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and caused catastrophic human suffering and an enormous economic toll. The death toll exceeded 5,000, and huge numbers of crops were destroyed by the heat and lack of moisture. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave still stand to this day. The heat wave followed one of the coldest winters on record..."
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Thankyou OP, i was kinda thinking of goin g to Dteroit in 1936, o well best stick to the usual of Bali in 1890.

Im pretty positive OP knew about the dust bowl he prolly just wanted to link a few modern day Weather patterns to yesteryear

Tv knows all..... lol

Detroit News set up a penny ice fund to assist with relief. From the article:



The fund was created and administered by The News, and with it ice was purchased and distributed through the agencies of the Salvation Army at a price of one penny for blocks running up to 50 pounds. The penny charged for the ice was not an effort to add to the fund but to remove the stigma of charity and to allow the purchaser the feeling that he was a buyer rather than the recipient of a gift.


Imagine that! People feeling stigmatized for accepting charity!

I will be leaving a Bump comment on this thread when if the weather gets Blazing hot in the next 2-4 days

Those friggen BASTARDS!!

Can I get a