I'm not just complaining; heat accounts for more deaths than any other kind of weather. Yesterday the temperature hit 39°C in Chicago; today and tomorrow the forecast calls for the same.
Good thing it doesn't happen often:
The 39°C peak reading marked only the second time in 142 years an Independence Day has recorded a triple digit [Fahrenheit] temperature here.
The rarity of Chicago temperatures at that level can't be overstated. Of 51,465 daily temperatures which have been archived over the 142 years of official weather observations in Chicago, only 19 of them have reached or exceeded that level.
Yes, the 1 in 2700 chance of hitting that temperature just isn't comforting right now (9:30 am, 31°C).
So I'm leaving. Next dispatch this evening from somewhere else (though I don't expect it to be much cooler).