In the summer of 1936, North America grew so hot that the heat killed thousands of people, buckled steel railroad tracks, and cooked crops where they stood in the fields. It came in the middle of the Dust Bowl, when years of drought had already turned the plains to powder. Then the temperature climbed, and it would not come down.
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