The official temperature here in the Triad hit triple-digits the past few days. Yesterday's 101 was an all-time high for that date. I don't remember hitting 100 on any date since we moved here in 1999.
Today, i had to drive to Chapel Hill (and back) for a recruiting event for incoming MBA students. When i left the office just before 11am, the car's temperature gauge read 97 degrees. By the time i got to the b-school (it's very nice, by the way) at UNC, it said 106. I parked in a covered garage, but when i left the school a couple of hours later, the car was still reading 106.
It hit a whopping 112 - i kid you not - as i drove through Chapel Hill on the way back to I-40. Now, surely that's measuring road temperature or something similar, surely not ambient temperature, but still. 112? Not pleasant in a convertible (yes, the top was up).
Those readings remind me of the famous summer of 1980 in Texas, where temps reached into the 110s for a few days, and were over 100 for several days in a row. That was the summer i spent a week at academic camp at East Texas State University (i see the place has been conquered by the Aggies). We stayed in a high-rise dorm on the very edge of campus and had to trudge back and forth across campus in the sweltering heat. It was miserable. I spent a lot of free time in the game room playing pool and ping pong.
2 comments:
So much for your dad wanting to escape to NC in August to get away from the Texas heat. We haven't hit triple digits yet!
remember, i warned you guys that August was absolutely the worst time to visit NC. didn't you remember how hot it was in Durham in 1989 when we moved me into that apartment?
we love to have you visit. come often, and come anytime but August.
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