United States
"extreme climate"
in 1934:
Northeast US:
Extremely cold winter:
Stillwater Reservoir, NY
was -52 degrees F.
on February 9, 1934.
Central US:
Extremely hot and dry summer.
Chicago Airport was 109 degrees F.
on July 23, 1934,
“the highest ever reached
on a government thermometer
here since the establishment
of the weather bureau in 1871.”
The July 1934
Palmer Modified
Drought Index
showed about half the country,
showed about half the country,
and most of the Midwest,
was in extreme drought.