Posted on 06/08/2011 2:29:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO/BOSTON (Reuters) The heat wave baking the country's mid-section entered its third day on Wednesday with high temperatures taking a deadly toll from Milwaukee to Memphis.
The hot, humid air, which the National Weather Service warned could create triple-digit heat index readings in many places, also began to spread into the northeast, where temperatures across Southern New England were expected to climb into the 90s on Wednesday and inch higher toward potentially historic numbers on Thursday, meteorologists said.
In Wisconsin, a 69-year-old resident of a Milwaukee nursing home was found dead Tuesday evening after being left unattended outside for three hours in the afternoon heat, which reached a record 97 degrees on Wednesday and hit 90 by early Wednesday afternoon.
The Milwaukee medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine if the extreme heat was a factor in the man's death, Karen Domagalski, the agency's operations manager, told Reuters.
In Tennessee, officials said a 75-year-old Memphis woman and a 60-year-old man in Brighton both died of the heat, which reached 98 on Tuesday and was 93 by early Wednesday afternoon.
The heat -- in the mid to upper-90s throughout Tennessee -- coincides with the kickoff of two massive music festivals that has officials in the state bracing for heat-related calls.
The CMA Music Festival kicks off on Wednesday with a parade in Nashville, but the big events begin Thursday, most of them outdoors at LP Field, the open-air home of the Tennessee Titans football team.
Meanwhile, about 85 miles southeast of Nashville, 80,000 fans are expected for Bonnaroo, the huge, four-day rock festival that takes place annually in former farm pastures in Manchester.
Fans are expected to jam up Interstate 24 as they begin arriving on Wednesday for the event, which begins Thursday. ..
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Oh no! We finally put ours in the ground last weekend. I’ve been keeping them inside and on the deck (eight feet high) under an umbrella for about a month. It’s been in the low 50’s at night, thank goodness.
Heck, your comment doesn't mean a thing if you don't state where you are. Which state?
My tomatoes are doing good, 2 weeks in the ground.. I’m trying to see how old seeds can be and still germinate. I got a bunch of 20-25 year old veg seeds.
so far kohlrabi kicks butt. a few onions , I think,, time for new seeds.
Very strange and cool spring this year.
I hear ya.. I used to look forward to working in oklahoma or arizona in the summer. 100 , no sweat. well, maybe a little.
and Yes, it is the strangest in a run of strange ones the last decade or two.
Before the glo-bull warmists start their hue and cry, it was hotter here in Arkansas back in 1968 than it is today.
I remember living in Phoenix Arizona... It was 115 one summer... but it was a dry heat.
I left Houston one day when it was 85 and miserably uncomfortable. I had a stopover in Phoenix where it was 103 and went out for a walk, it was so comfortable.
Gimme "dry" any day.
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