Cold front moving through area Sunday; rain possible
July 7, 2012 at 5:58 a.m.
| Updated July 7, 2012 at 5:58 a.m.
Brian Judge wipes the sweat off his face after making his last delivery of the day Friday at the Elks Lodge. The driver for Coca-Cola said in this extreme heat, he's been making two deliveries a week to places where he normally makes only one. He's looking forward to some cooler temperatures in the next week, as are most area residents.
Photo by Michael Woods
Arkansas senior quarterback Casey Dick, who has started at least one game in each of his three previous seasons, is the presumptive starter for the Razorbacks this season, but four others are lined up behind him and a fifth is ineligible this season.
When you're hot, you're hot. And Jefferson City is most definitely hot - and dry.
But according to senior forecaster Scott Truett of the National Weather Service, Jefferson City is one of many places in Missouri suffering similar heat waves.
According to Truett, Friday was the 10th consecutive day of temperatures higher than 100 degrees, an extreme heat streak that first struck the Jefferson City-Columbia area June 27.
