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Missouri History Today, July 14, 1936:  A severe heat wave takes more than 400 lives in St. Louis alone.  

This day in 1936 was one tragically hot one. That summer scorcher was yet another in a series that has gripped our state.

On that fateful day, Springfield was one of the cool spots, with only 106˚ reported.

But that isn’t near the record for this day. In 1954, the mercury hit the hottest temperature ever recorded for Missouri: 118° in Warsaw and Union.

This post is based on content from The University of Missouri-Columbia’s site climate.missouri.edu.

Photo credit: Jaroslaw Kwoczala, Unsplash

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