On 8 Jul 2006 17:57:41 -0700, "aem" > wrote:

>TammyM wrote:
>> Roomie and I went to the Czech restaurant in Davis last night. I
>> don't know WHY I had a hankering for Czech food on a day when the temp
>> was upwards of 142F. [snip]
>
>Why were there no headlines in world papers today about this highest
>ever recorded temperature? It's in the 90's down here in SoCal but
>there's been no outbreak of gross exaggerations......... -aem

I'm sure that was the heat index, accounting for humidity. They
*were* near a hot kitchen. That's gotta be it.

Carol