The Nation - News from July 10, 1988

Up to 4 inches of rain fell on parts of the parched Midwest, including Audubon, Iowa, where 16 Hopi Indians performed a rain dance the night before, but elsewhere in the drought region the sky was clear, and temperatures rose as high as 102 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms were scattered from western and central Kansas to northwestern Wisconsin, but Iowa got the best of it. Clouds kept temperatures below the 90s across much of the plains and Mississippi Valley, but readings hit 100 in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said, with record highs for the date in at least 10 cities. Cooler air prompted Chicago officials to call off an alert issued because of dangerously high ozone, but the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency issued an ozone warning later. Ohio officials also made a plea for volunteer drivers and trucks to haul hay donated from other states for livestock.