Who Could Sleep?

 I have been told, countless times, that I never slept as a baby.  Even after almost 60 years, I still hear this.  It's one of those family urban legends that I will never live down. 

I was just watching the local news and the weatherman informed me that the record high temperature for today was 100 degrees, set in 1953.  He noted that several record highs were set in 1953.  I was born that year so I checked.  Here's a list - please note that record highs were set for 6 straight days in 1953 in Albany New York when I was 7 months old.  No wonder I didn't sleep.  Probably no one in the city was sleeping that summer.  

A U G U S T

DAILY NORMALS (1981-2010)           DAILY RECORDS (1874 THRU 2011)
   HI LO AVG HDD CDD    MAX      MIN     LO MAX   HI MIN     HI MEAN    LO MEAN  
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29 78 58 68   1   4   95 1953  34 1982   57 1903  71 1984   81.0 1900  51.0 1965

30 78 58 68   1   4   98 1953  38 1982   60 1903  71 1979   82.0 1921  53.0 1965

31 78 57 68   1   4   93 1953  37 1965   62 1985  71 1959   80.0 1881  49.5 1965

S E P T E M B E R

DAILY NORMALS (1981-2010)           DAILY RECORDS (1874 THRU 2011 

HI LO AVG HDD CDD    MAX      MIN     LO MAX   HI MIN     HI MEAN    LO MEAN

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1 77 57 67   1   4   96 1953  41 1967   59 1951  75 1881   83.0 1898  55.5 1991   

2 77 57 67   2   4  100 1953  39 1991   57 1951  73 1959   84.5 1953  53.0 1987

 3 77 56 67   2   3  100 1953  39 1976   58 1974  72 1937   84.5 1953  55.5 1994