I actually hope people start playing this one up... within reason. Call it responsible hyperbole. Potential for a pretty bad outcome and timed on a holiday with more out of towners in the mix.
Boy I really wish we had RAOBs from the Dust Bowl years. But I have gone back and looked at reanalysis from some of those hottest days and they generally had mid-upper 20C 850 mb temps advecting into the region, which with good mixing and pronounced drought conditions would've enabled those 105-110+ type readings.
Impressive to beat the records by that much.
Yeah, I don't think 850's can get much above 30C once you get east of the Mississippi or so, and even that is really rare. I know ILX had an ob of 30C back in 2012.
Met fall is almost upon us. Year just seems like it's flying by.
After a bit of a cool start especially in the first day or two, it appears a warmup may occur.