The most memorable hot spell I ever experienced occurred at the end of May 1995. On a Monday, the temperature reached 30 degrees, something I was able to more vividly imagine than previously because I had recently seen TV programs about sub-Saharan countries where that was the normal daily high.
I don't remember much about the school day itself, but at the end it was announced over the PA system that school would be closed the following day due to continued high temperatures being forecast. This is the only time I remember school being cancelled because of hot weather, as opposed to being shut down a few times throughout my childhood with the heavy snow in winter.
When I returned from school I went up to my room as I usually did but Mom told me to stay downstairs as the upstairs of our house was just too hot.
That night, my sister and I slept in the living room on the sofa bed, which was special because normally we only folded the couch out when relatives came for Christmas.
I don't actually remember too much about the following day. In the morning my sister and I played in the pool. I can also remember Mom trying to get ahold of a heating and air conditioning company in Belleville about having central air installed.
At noon I turned on the radio to hear whether school would be closed for a second day, but the newscaster said it would be open.
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