The killer heatwave of 1896, before cars

 Streets of Washington:

THE SLAUGHTERING SUN: THE BRUTAL HEAT WAVE OF AUGUST 1896

"Sun is Slaughtering the People of the Great Cities," proclaimed a banner headline on the front page of The Evening Times on August 12, 1896. An extraordinary and unrelenting heat wave had spread over the entire eastern half of the United States, stretching from Chicago to Boston, lingering for more than two weeks and killing some 1,500 people. "When Will It Stop?" cried the anguished headline on the front page of The Evening Star on August 11. For more than two weeks, daytime temperatures had remained steadily in the upper 90s but were compounded by high humidity and relieved by little or no wind and only slight cooling at night.
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There is much more.

The temperatures that prompted this headline were not any higher than current August temperatures. August has been the hottest month of the year in this hemisphere since the memory of man knoweth not.  The purpose of this post is to remind Americans that heatwaves cannot be blamed on automobiles.

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