>Fred,
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>PMFJI, but during a summer many (many) years ago I sold books door-to-door in Tuscan and one morning around 10am just after it had rained I saw steam rising from the sidewalk and the temperature display at a bank read 108 degrees. I still had 5 weeks remaining to my sentence, but I packed-up and was at the Greyhound station by 4pm. Dry heat my butt! :-)

Renoir,

That's not even warming up yet! ;)

In the late summer, it's usually about 116 to 118. The hottest I've seen here was 122. Anything up to 105 is merely warm. But once it goes past 110, it is hot. No argument there.