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

by Missouri Life

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