“Too hot to think,” cry puffing citizens as they pass one another on the street, but not so hot as they imagine. There was nothing unusual about the month of July, according to G.S. Lingren, meteorologist of the local weather bureau. The entire month was practically normal.
No records of any kind were broken during July, Mr. Lingren declared. The highest average temperature on record at the local weather bureau for July is 82 degrees reached in 1880. Nine times since then the average for July has been has high as 80 and 81 degrees. The average for the past July was 79.5 degrees, the past month being not quote one degree above normal.
Indications point to cooler weather during the next few days, stated Mr. Lindgren. The temperature Monday morning was from 2 to 8 degrees below normal in the North Atlantic states with the drop expected to reach Charlotte Monday night. The temperature is expected to be about 8 degrees cooler in the city Tuesday. Warm weather will continue through Monday.
The hottest place in the country Sunday was around Birmingham, Ala., a temperature of 100 degrees being reported from that place. The mercury at Charlotte registered 96 degrees at one time Sunday, the highest reached during the month of July. The lowest reached during July in the Queen City was 68 degrees on the 23rd.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, Monday, August 1, 1921
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