Ended up being a perfect summer day.

Wow, still way closer than SEA.

It's not just a matter of it trending east though. There's a latitude component to this as well, which makes it unusual (though not impossible) to get long double digit streaks of 90s the farther north you go from I-80. We're not St. Louis or Washington DC. Look at Boston... they are about as far east as you can go in the CONUS, and their forecast highs are in the 70s and 80s after tomorrow.

Man, super bummed that Cape Verde couldn't quite finish what was about to be one of the greatest single game upsets in professional sports history. The way Vozinha was playing, they were 100% going to win that game if they had managed to survive to the penalty kicks.

I'am not totally sold on that as the 1950's were also much warmer ( than now) for max temps in the Heartland. I think a lot has to do with increased water vapor in the atmosphere now compared to the 1930's and why many more max min's records are set compared to max max. (especially summer with UHI) 1988 and 2012 show what can happen in a serious drought in the Heartland. Throw another year of serious drought before or after 1988 or 2012 and Ithink some of the 30's records get a run for their $$. Cool stat about 1950's and 2012 -- Until July 23rd , 2012 when the temp hit 105F and broke the max record here at DSM -- that last time a max record was broken in the month of July was 1955. That's 56 years. That was a good run and remember it well . (July 23rd 2012)