Heat

You might want to sit down for this. Have you received your electric bill yet this month? My Missouri bill that was formerly somewhat manageable has just exploded. Help.

I'm not a lawyer or any kind of legal expert, but I will say that many laws and regulations don't use common sense in my opinion. This is a great example. Do you think that Missouri landlords should be required to provide you air conditioning? The answer is more complicated than it needs to be.

It's like watching two worlds collide. A new list of the Illinois places that have the hottest average temperatures also includes an infamous place that has been declared among the most abandoned towns in America, too.

Summer won't officially arrive for a couple of weeks, but the heat isn't waiting. Missouri looks to be just days away from triple digit temperatures based on new forecasts and computer models.

I can already hear the naysayers laughing at the news that Missouri's summer will be hot. Of course it will be hot they'll say and they're not wrong. However, there's a difference between Missouri's normally hot summers and record heat and Farmer's Almanac says records may be broken.

My dad told me that if you don't like the weather in Missouri, just wait 10 minutes. That has never been more true than this week where heat, tornadoes, snow and wildfires are all possible some on back-to-back days.

It's not exactly breaking news that it was super hot over the last week, but the heatwave did shatter a number of Missouri all-time weather records that have now been confirmed by the National Weather Service.

Parts of the Kansas City area tied or broke heat index records on July 26, 2023. Here's how long we can expect the hot weather to stick around West Central Missouri

There actually is one type of T-shirt that's better to wear when it's hot outside.

So what if you're in that position? What if you have AC but it's busted, or if your house only has a tiny window unit, or even no central air at all? There are, in fact, a few things you can do to help alleviate the situation.