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Heat wave: Midwest plain ‘out of whack’ as records shatter
Posted by LA Times: Amy Hubbard on July 6th, 2012
LA Times: It's not that the Midwest hasn't been extremely hot before, and it's not that it hasn't been incredibly dry.
But it's unusual for a vast swath of the Midwest to be so very hot and so very dry for so very long -- particularly this early in the summer.
The current heat wave -- which is spurring comparisons to the catastrophic heat of 1936 -- is "out of whack," meteorologist Jim Keeney said Friday in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
"Even on the East Coast today, temperatures are 100...