We had a spell here in Carolina this summer of hotter than average weather with several days hitting 100 plus. This was no surprise to me, I have lived here 67 years. What was a surprise was to learn how many people who are younger than I am seem to think this was the hottest summer ever in South Carolina. Apparently a lot of people believe the garbage they see and hear on TV and make no effort to learn the real truth.
“We had a spell here in Carolina this summer of hotter than average weather with several days hitting 100 plus.”
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I have had similar experiences.
I think it was around 1982 when at my rural house, in the woods of west Tennessee, the overnight temperature did not go below 100 f.
In my 67 years, very high and low extremes have been nothing strange.