When looking back through historical data for the Lafayette area, one things stands out with respect to summer temperatures...evidently the early 20th century featured hot summers. Not all of them of course, but there are some real impressive heat waves. To what degree these readings are accurate I don't know (i.e. where was the thermometer located, etc.). It's only from one source as well, the West Lafayette COOP. The temperatures in the 1930's summer are real eye openers...those were during the dust bowl days after all. Anyways, here are some of the past heat waves in June at the WL COOP (heat wave defined as at least 3 consecutive days of 95º or more, for this purpose).
June 9-11, 1911: 96º, 101º, 96º
June 15-17, 1913: 95º, 99º, 97º
June 27-30, 1913: 96º, 100º, 101º, 97º
June 9-11, 1914: 96º, 95º, 97º
June 21-23, 1923: 95º, 100º, 98º
June 4-7, 1925: 95º, 97º, 99º, 96º
June 25-30, 1931: 97º, 100º, 101º, 101º, 99º, 99º
June 5-11, 1933: 95º, 98º, 101º, 100º, 98º, 100º, 99º
June 17-22, 1933: 96º, 98º, 99º, 99º, 99º, 97º
June 26-30, 1933: 99º, 98º, 98º, 95º, 98º
June 1-4, 1934: 104º, 101º, 96º, 96º
June 26-30, 1934: 97º, 102º, 103º, 103º, 95º
For comparison's sake, I could find only one such streak/heat wave at the airport for June (data from 1964 to present):
June 20-22, 1988: 99º, 100º, 98º
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