The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-13
HOTTEST PERIOD or YEAR
 IS USUALLY IN MID-TUIlY

.T,,at 1o6 years ago today. July 1s 1908. a perspiring Eng 1ishman met an- other D.. D. in a London street, and the first D. E. said to the second p.
 .sIssft hot enough for you
 Whereupon- us hope!-the clench ed fist of the second, p. F. landed on the nose of the first p. E., and the latter stretched his perspiring length upoH the torrid soil.
 fAfeteorologfcal observatories were unknown in 1908 and the statements regarding the torridity of that famous ahot Wednesday, may have been exs aggerated but 1t was doubtless the hottest day England has ever known Thermometers vari@H widely. and some registered as low as 94s while a ther- mometer on the shady side of the Strand affirmed a temperature of 101.
 That ,sshot Wednesdays in England was hotter by several degrees than the ~'hot Tuesday of 1790. which also occurred in rnid-July. Credible stat1s- tics show that the middle of July usu- ally brings the hottest days of the year north of the equator. On the 14th in ssiIzsex the temperature was 98 in the shade, in 1s47. and on the 18th in 1881, London swe1tered beneath a sun that. glowered to the tune Of 94.1l in the shade.
 While Fnglishmen made g. great fuss over these temperatures, they are gelid in conparison with some of the records established by old Sol in America, both North and South and Africa
 The highest. temperature ever re- corded scientifically was a fraction over 124 degrees. taken in Algeria, on the edge of the desert, on July IT, 1s79
 America has come very near to the worlds record. however. and 1t is note worthy that on this side of the Allan tic. as in England and Africa, major ity of the .shottest day records have been established in mid d-July.
 Yuma in Arizona, to which place the wicked deceased troopers ghost returned for his overcoats holds the du- bfous honor of being the hottest place on the map. Yun1a's record is 12o de- grees which may be described with out exaggeration as being a bit warm ish.
 Phoenix. in the same state, closely Approaches the Yuma mark with a rec ord of 1ie California can boast of record of 115. established at Fresno. E1 Paso, Texas, and Walla Walla. was :, have been wilted by a tempera- ture of 11S.
 In mid-July the tropics usually in wade several of the northwestern states, and the heat waves often ex- tend as far north as the tjumping-on place. of Canadian civilization. At Miles City, Mont, and at Boise, Id.,. the emperature has. reached III, and at Pierre S. D., a, temperature of no has been recorded. Other records of extreme heat in cIude no at Sacramento. Shreveport. La; Concordia, Kan,, and Roswell. N. M; 109 at Los Angeles and Des Moines. 10s at Oklahoma City and Fit. Smith. Ark: 107 at Louisville, Omaha and l St. Louis; 1o6 at Indianapolis; 1o5 at Philadelphia and Chicago; 104 at Wind sor, Ont, San Francisco, Vicksburg, Miss and Detroit, and 100 at New York The lowest Thigh extrenae'' re- corded at any station in the United States was at Block Island, R. l., where the hottest day known was only 92. strange to say. thss record is almost equalled in Arizona, the hottest state, for at FlagstaR the highest summer temperature recorded was only ss.