Triple Digit Heat :: Final Day?!?

As of today, the weathermen are saying this is our final day of triple-digit temperatures . . . so I wanted a record of the final HOT day for the summer of 2011 . . .

Sleeping Beauty

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Well . . . the official thermometer for Dallas only made it to 97 today . . . so the official triple digit streak is over, with only 40 days in a row (as of yesterday) . . . but look what the thermometer in the shade of my tree showed at 5 o'clock this afternoon!?! . . .

Triple Digit Heat 30 Straight Days

This photo shows the temperature in my yard just before 7 p.m. tonight . . . 108° . . . here in Dallas we are now at 30 straight days of triple-digit heat . . . this is officially the 2nd longest heat wave on record . . . the record of 42 days straight occurred in 1980 when they had a total of 69 days when the temperature reached 100+ . . .

And the temperature is . . .

Summertime in Texas

And the temperature today . . .
at 7:22 pm . . . is . . .