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[nuwaver88]

July 16, 1988 was also the hottest day ever in Pittsburgh with a high of 103 degrees. It was a Saturday. I was in my neighbor's wedding wearing a tux. The old hall where the reception was held had a shoddy AC. We drank a lot of beer and did a lot of sweating on the dance floor.
For the record, I was also in my brothers wedding in Dallas in July, 1994. It was 105 degrees. I was in a tux that day too. He took an Alaskan cruise for his honeymoon to escape the scorching Texas summer sun.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by nuwaver88

July 16, 1988 was also the hottest day ever in Pittsburgh with a high of 103 degrees. It was a Saturday. I was in my neighbor's wedding wearing a tux. The old hall where the reception was held had a shoddy AC. We drank a lot of beer and did a lot of sweating on the dance floor.
For the record, I was also in my brothers wedding in Dallas in July, 1994. It was 105 degrees. I was in a tux that day too. He took an Alaskan cruise for his honeymoon to escape the scorching Texas summer sun.

Appropriately, the #1 song in America on July 16, 1988 was "The Flame" by Cheap Trick. I remember that summer too, because there were three days when the temperature broke 100 degrees -- July 7 (101), July 16 (103), and August 17 (100). July 16, 1988 is also tied with two other days in the record books, although both days were prior to 1960.

The summer of 1994 was a tale of two summers in Pittsburgh. The hottest week of that year was actually in mid-June, so technically it was late spring. Pittsburgh had eight consecutive 90-degree days from June 13 through June 20, and six consecutive of those eight were 95-degree days: 92, 92, 96, 97, 95, 97, 97, 95. Seven of those eight days were new record highs, with June 14 being the only non-record. (Coincidentally, the record for June 14 is 94, set in 1988.)

That was also the week of the 1994 U.S. Open Golf Tournament at Oakmont Country Club. A friend of mine here in Georgia who's an avid golfer said that the extreme heat is what made that year's tournament memorable. (He was 13 at the time, and even he still remembers it.)

Ironically, the streak of 90-degree days came to an end on the first day of summer, and there were only three more days that year in which the temperature reached 90 degrees. From mid-July through August, it was actually very mild and rainy.