A typical question to ask around Northern New England the the dog days of late August, but we had extraordinary heat in mid May. On the 20th of the month, a listing of the hottest places in the US (by official airport weather station readings) would typically include Phoenix or Palm Desert or someplace in Texas, but on this date, they were all along the East Coast, even listing Concord, NH as one of the hottest spots in the U.S. !

