Summer of 1980: Back before iPhone chargers overheated the planet, Dallas was so cool that the temperature only reached 100 on 69 different occasions

Dallas-Fort Worth heat wave of 1980 still seared into memories

[Aug 2010] Those people – that is, people who remember Dallas during the summer of 1980 – can tell you about hot.

It was 30 years ago this week that a 42-day string of 100 degree days – the longest heat wave by far in the region's history – was broken. For one day. More triple digits followed, and when autumn mercifully arrived, temperatures had hit the century mark 69 times.