Photo of the Day

No. 416

On the fourth of July in 1911, an extreme heat wave smothered the East Coast.

It lasted for eleven days, until big thunderstorms on July 15 drove it away.

The area between Pennsylvania and Maine was hardest hit and high temperature records were set in many places which still hold.

— Nashua, NH: 106°

— Bridgton, ME: 105°

— Boston, MA: …