Q. Are you wary of reading so much about the heat?
Q. Will the beginning of football season psychologically cool you off a bit?
Here is a roundup of today’s high temperatures:
ALABAMA
85 Lookout Mountain near Collinsville with 0.88 rain
84 Coker
94 Muscle Shoals
95 Huntsville
93 Decatur
94 Haleyville
90 Gadsden Airport
88 Tuscaloosa (long string of 90 or higher broken)
93 Birmingham, (the 46th day in a row 90 or higher)
94 Montgomery/Dannelly Field
90 Shelby County Airport
94 Maxwell Air Force Base
94 Anniston
91 Auburn, Evergreen, Dothan
87 Troy
90 Albertville, Courtland
89 Fort Payne Airport
89 Guntersville
90 Russellville
90 Scottsboro
88 Good Ole Valley Head
91 Cullman Airport
93 Pinson
OTHERS
89 Charlotte with 1.97 inches of rain
75 Salt Lake City with 1.12 inches of rain
105 Tuscon
102 Waco
USA EXTREMES/LOWER 48
32 this morning at Truckee, Calif.*
116 this afternoon in Death Valley*
ALASKA
34 this morning at Savoonga and Sleetmute
70 this afternoon at Big River Lake and Seward
* Another day when the highest and lowest in the Lower 48 was in the same state
