NYT: How much hotter is your hometown than when you were born?

[ChiTownLion]

How about your grandparents?

Enter hometown and year in this interactive chart from the NYT:

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? (Published 2018)

See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.

www.nytimes.com

And here is how the NYT is manipulating the data:

 

[LionDeNittany]

How about your grandparents?

How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born? (Published 2018)

See how days at or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit have changed in your lifetime and how much hotter it could get.

www.nytimes.com

And here is how the NYT is manipulating the data:

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We didn't have AC growing up.
So it was much hotter.

 

[1Hammers1]

I remember being in my birthday suit on new years eve outside in 1979 and it was hot out.

 

[bourbon n blues]

We didn't have AC growing up.
So it was much hotter.

Yep