Fri Jul 7, 2023 – 11:32 am EDT
(Courageous Discourse) — The climactic scene in the The Great Gatsby occurs during a terrible heat wave from which there is, in 1920s New York, no escape. The unrelenting heat oppresses and confuses everyone. As the narrator remarks:
The next day was broiling, certainly the warmest, of the summer. … The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.
Every summer here in Texas, when everyone starts bellyaching about “the heat,” I am reminded of this scene. At least we have AC now. Lately I’ve heard a lot of chatter about “record heat” in Texas, which is attributed to global warming caused by human activity. This prompted me to do a little research on record thermometer readings in Texas, and I found the following:
The hottest maximum temperature ever recorded in Texas occurred twice: First on August 12, 1936, in Seymour, northwest of Dallas, and again on June 28, 1994, in Monahans, a city near
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