On this date in 1980, Montevideo, Minnesota reached 100 degrees.

The average temperature across the US that day was 78 degrees, about twelve degrees above average. The following summer of 1980 was one of the hottest on record in the US, with more than 10% of days over 100 degrees. Based on that metric, it was the last extremely hot summer across the entire country.

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