Culture Fest A Real Melting Pot

Wow! Culture Fest was fun but it was steamy. Literally making the celebration a "melting" pot.
Days like this are what a friend from Texas used to call, "H-O-Tee-Tee ...Hot".
We are paying for a wet summer with sky-high humidity, and anyone who was in Coolidge Park today was dripping in sweat. (Unless you were in the fountain which was elbow to elbow.)
How hot was it? I spoke to a lady who just moved to Red Bank from Arizona. She absolutely loves it here in Chattanooga, but she is really surprised by the steaminess. She says she'd take 110 plus in the desert rather than swelter in the steam.
The official high about 4 pm in the city was 96. We have only been this hot 4 times this year including the 97 we hit on July 26th. So far that's been the hottest of the summer season. For those keeping score, 33 days at or above 90 degrees so far. In an average year we have 46 days that hot.