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Mortos

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18. Highest recorded temp on earth was 136 in Africa in 1922, no place not on fire has ever hit 159.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #17)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 01:34 PM

Aug 2012

I am sitting at m y house in Choctaw, OK today and went outside to water the chickens. The grass is dead and crispy. The chickens are panting in the shade and it is supposed to hit 112 here today. I don't like it one bit.

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Oklahoma City projected to hit record high of 114 degrees this afternoon. [View all] onehandle Aug 2012 OP

Ironically isn't James Inhofe the Senior Senator from Oklahoma? Firebrand Gary Aug 2012 #1

Imhofe is another bought and sold Repulican stooge Berlum Aug 2012 #5

Yeah, but it's a dry heat.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #2

Unfortunately it isn't a dry heat at all solara Aug 2012 #6

Well, then you have never lived in South Florida. RebelOne Aug 2012 #10

Yes I have heard that about South Florida.. solara Aug 2012 #19

We had 107 here the other day and we get Gulf humidity too, it's miserable.. Fumesucker Aug 2012 #12

"This is all in their imagination." - Rush Limbaugh (R - Propagandist) Berlum Aug 2012 #3

It is plcdude Aug 2012 #4

Nothing to see here, Consumer - move along! hatrack Aug 2012 #7

Well, they're definitely fryin freedom on OK. ananda Aug 2012 #9

Sounds more like Tucson, Arizona weather. B Calm Aug 2012 #8

I don't know about Tucson Sentath Aug 2012 #13

My dad retired to Tucson. I had to go B Calm Aug 2012 #14

They Will Never Get It Even At 121 degrees. . TheMastersNemesis Aug 2012 #11

It's worse than that - Texas lost something like a billion trees last year hatrack Aug 2012 #15

shocking news, temperatures equal to those of 1936 strike OK as summer occurs nt msongs Aug 2012 #16

The Most Shocking Temperatures In North Africa TheMastersNemesis Aug 2012 #17

Highest recorded temp on earth was 136 in Africa in 1922, no place not on fire has ever hit 159. Mortos Aug 2012 #18