(2011) Summer of 69: Bryan Adams' Tribute to the Best Days of His Life

In the most-days-of-a-month-over-100 category, this summer we reached the triple-digits on 30 of July's 31 days. That was good enough for second place. First place? You guessed it -- the summer of '80 set an unbreakable record when all 31 days were hotter than 99 degrees.

(2011) summer of 69

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Rainfall for the summer of 1980 was only 1.96 inches, low enough to make it the eighth-driest summer on record. This summer, we've already had 2.93 inches of rain recorded, which is too much to crack the top 10. In fact, we haven't had a new entry into the Driest Summers Top 10 this century while we've added two of the wettest with 16.99 inches in 2007 (No. 5) and 18.89 inches in 2004 (No. 1).

Not being a meteorologist, I went to Chief Meteorologist David Finfrock, who averaged the data from June 1 through Aug. 4 and found the following: The summer of 2011 has had the warmest-ever average low temperature during the time period -- 78.9 degrees vs. 76.7 degrees in 1980. For the average high temperature, 1980 is still in first with 102.4 degrees vs. 100.2 this year. Interestingly, the overall mean temperature for the summer (averaging both highs and lows each day) shows that both 1980 and 2011 have an average temperature of 89.6 degrees.

After taking all of that into consideration, it looks kind of like a horse race as to which summer was the most extreme. With three more weeks left in August, do you think we can eclipse the granddaddy of them all?

Mack Petersen has been working as manager of The Beach Club for 12 summers. This summer is however unlike any other as his boss, Bill Elliot, arrives at the hotel in the spring with a new list of demands.

Kayla, Antoinette and Val have for the last two decades performed their own special summer ritual. Once every year, the old friends substitute their daily, separate lives for one under the Nantucket stars where they drink champagne, tell stories and swim naked.

In 1969, applications from college students for summer employment in the Poconos were being accepted at the Pennsylvania State Employment Service, according to an article in The Pocono Record. "Summer jobs ranged from glamorous to downright hard, dirty work," said the manager of the Stroudsburg PSES office at the time.

"Of course we are bothered much more during the summer, but every once in a while we catch a local youngster trying to make a purchase. But, the real problem this time of year is caused by teenagers from outside the Stroudsburgs, who we don't recognize, anxious to obtain drugs," said a president of the Carbon, Monroe, Pike Pharmaceutical Association quoted in the story.

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