Local on the 8s Somerville, NJ 8/2/06 Hottest Day in 50yrs

Atrocious video quality, had to film in black and white to minimize interference from the TV, but here's a Local on the 8's from mid-morning on a very hot August '06 day. It was not quite 10 o'clock and it was already 91 degrees with a dewpoint in the mid 70s!!! Way too hot and sticky; looked more like a forecast for the Amazon rather than northwest NJ. I can't remember it being so hot in my almost 40 years.

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[socool775]

I faintly remember hearing about that heat wave. We got a very small piece of it here in Michigan... where Lansing set its warmest low on record of 78. But I can't imagine how triple digit temps feel... since it has not hit 100 here in some 22 years.

[lcanadensis]

@socool775 It was brutal back in '06. This summer has been really hot as well. It got up to 98 degrees in my back yard during a couple of afternoons in June!

[socool775]

Care to trade? :P

[lcanadensis]

@socool775 With pleasure!! As I type this it's 92 degrees outside (and about 100 where the computer is). I'm ready for fall!

[socool775]

I had meant to ask... did Somerville break a record that day?

[lcanadensis]

@socool775 TWC predicted 104 but it "only" got up to 96, not sure if that was a record or not but it was more than hot enough for me! Actually it made it to 97 the next day while TWC predicted 99. We had a wicked thunderstorm on that Thursday which dropped the temp about 25 degrees (97 to 72). Felt fantastic!

[VIDEOMAKER283]

i was 5 years old when that happened and i had 2 swim for an extra hour

[ZeroNAiko]

@TheWeatherchannelman at 12:30 IT WAS 1000 degres

[ZeroNAiko]

@lcanadensis we always get storms

[TheWeatherchannelman]

Newark, NJ was supposed to tie their all-time record high that day, 105F. It failed to reach it. This past summer, during the July Heat Wave of 2011, they shattered the record setting a new all-time record high of 108F.

[VampireWeekend34]

i was 7 years old when this came out

[LightningFever86]

The Heat Wave of July 2011 is happening right now...today's high was 104 in NYC.

[TheDukeofMania]

I don't know why, but the bad audio quality actually enhances the music in a way, for me anyway. Sometimes I like listening to this instead of the actual song.

[socool775]

Wow, I would think that if it was already 91 at 10 AM that it would for sure get to 100. Your almanac in the clip says that the record was 105. Did it get cloudy?