Our local paper has some comments on the weather

 Our town’s weekly newspaper had an interesting article by someone known only as The Insider about a couple of new record temperatures set here in late June.
The records, though, weren’t the high temperatures for the day. They were the low temperatures for the day. In other words, the overnight lows for a couple of days in late June were higher than they’d been in the time that temperatures have been measured, monitored and kept in the files here in Rolla, Missouri.

A good friend shared this photo of the Ozarks version of 
huckleberries, noting that in a day or two, they'd likely be
burned up by the blistering heat. 
                                       

The Insider didn’t sound any alarms, though, reporting that the numbers were “like a fairly typical July or August here in South Central Missouri.”

Then a couple of days later, there was some news in the national and worldwide media that the temperature on the Fourth of July was higher than it had ever been—or at least for more than 100,000 years. 

“Now, they haven’t had thermometers and weather stations for 125,000 years, but scientists are able to look at tree rings and ice core data and read the weather,” analyzed The Insider. “Reading tree rings and ice cores sounds almost theological to The Insider. Well, it wouldn’t be theological, because these scientists likely don’t believe in any form of theism, but it sounds like it is going beyond science into some other realm. The Insider, not being a scientist, could be wrong.”
Well, we’ll see what happens when August rolls around. That’s usually the hottest month here in Southern Missouri.
The Insider had some more to report on Earth’s hottest day ever, and you can read it all at this link: Couple of local temperature records set last week, but neither on Earth's hottest day in 175,000 years | Weather | phelpscountyfocus.com
The Insider posts daily weather data from the local NOAA Weather Co-Op Station, so if you’re curious about weather here in South-Central Missouri, take a look at Weather | phelpscountyfocus.com.