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Steamy Saturday smashes heat record

Originally published: July 24, 2010 3:37 PM
Updated: July 24, 2010 7:44 PM
By NOMAAN MERCHANT  nomaan.merchant@newsday.com

ISLIP, NY, July 24, 2010: Michelangelo Gloss of

Photo credit: Photo by Ed Betz | ISLIP, NY, July 24, 2010: Michelangelo Gloss of Brentwood, NY sits in the water at Islip Town Beach in Islip, NY, July 24, 2010. Photo by Ed Betz

It was a scorching - and record-setting - Saturday on Long Island.

At 3:30 p.m., the mercury at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton reached 93.6 degrees, easily beating the previous daily record of 90 degrees set in 1972.

It was even hotter at Islip-MacArthur and Farmingdale airports, where the mercury hit 96.

And if that wasn't enough, the humidity made the temperature feel...

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