The Nation - News from June 17, 1987
Record high temperatures in the Great Lakes strained water supplies and up to 101-degree readings in the plains killed pigs and cattle and prompted the opening of shelters for Kansans without air conditioning. Temperatures mostly in the mid-90s, 5 to 15 degrees above normal, baked Missouri to Illinois and from North Dakota to Oklahoma--with 40% to 50% humidity over much of the plains making it feel like it was well over 100 degrees. The mercury reached 104 at Lincoln, Neb., and Altus, Okla.
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