You should read this tweet from the Weather Channel -- it reports REAL TEMPERATURES, not heat index:
#Syracuse, NY (179" of #snow last season) just hit 100 deg. for 1st time since '02. Nearing all-time rec. from 1936!
Well, Syracuse didn't quite make it. But Elmira did. 1936 is significant because it was one of the Dust Bowl years, which were legitimately hot. When the country is breaking Dust Bowl-era temperature records (and Elmira is not the only place this happened), people should notice. Even if they're conservative Republicans who listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Here's more for Rush to read: an in-your-face rebuttal on the heat index:
The origins of the heat index and why it's important
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