MANHATTAN — So you think it’s hot? You don’t know hot. State climatologist Mary Knapp said the Kansas record for hot is 121 degrees, set on two separate days in July 1936 in Fredonia and in Alton. The average mean temperature in July 1936 was 85.1 degrees. The average July temperature is 78.5 degrees, she said. The only hotter average mean July temperatures occurred in 1934 and 1980, she said.
Tuesday, July 20, 2 p.m.
