8/1 - Detroit Will Likely Hit Or Break 100 F Today - Detroit News

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HARRISON TOWNSHIP -- Jennifer Klotz's love of golf lured her to Metro Beach from her air-conditioned Farmington Hills home Monday, but today's temperatures will trump her devotion to the greens. "I'll be inside. The weather exhausts you," the 34-year-old photography student said as she golfed, her face red and dripping with water she used to cool down.

Klotz and thousands of other Metro Detroiters braved Monday's record-tying 95-degree heat, but many are fleeing even beaches and pools for the air-conditioned comfort of their homes, cooling centers, malls and libraries, while others head to hospitals for heat-related symptoms.

Temperatures today are expected to threaten or exceed 100 degrees, and high humidity means it will feel even hotter, according to several forecasters including the National Weather Service. It would be the first time in more than a decade that Detroit's high reached 100.

Monday's peak tied a 51-year-old Detroit record for July 31 and made it the ninth day of 90-degree heat this year. Seven of those came in July, according to Andy Hatzos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in White Lake Township. That's one more than July 2005 and six more than July 2004.

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[marmar]

1. Don't remind me...

As badly as I want to go out for some sushi I'm not leaving this air-conditioned office.

[Cocoa]

2. Detroiters can cool off in a movie theater

An Inconvenient Truth

1hr 40min - Rated PG - Documentary - IMDb

Landmark Main Art Theatre
118 North Main Street, Royal Oak, MI - Map
1:45 4:00 9:30

SR Movies Novi Town Center
26085 Town Center Drive, Novi, MI - Map
5:30 9:10