Yea, you were in the not made it section but I was just listing official stations. Not only was it not that hot here, the DP was so low that out of the sun it was enjoyable if dressed right.
Yea, I blamed the people who deserved blame, LOL. MU Heat Wave wise (3 day heat wave) here are the people who made it and did not for the stations I could find somewhat near by.
Made It: MDT, LNS, CXY,
Did not: HGR, MUI, MTN, OQN, MQS
Interesting, I did not know the specifics. But that is one possible way to limit it vs. trying to say hitting 70 five days in a row in Feb is a heat wave. I believe the whole premise of the phrase use is to warn people in specific situations about danger. People who work outside, sports players, people (especially very young and elderly) in non air conditioned locales. So, agree that hitting 70 five days in a row in January is not a heat wave.
Maybe you can also say 90 is the min but it also has to be 7 AN so 90 in August does not work.
I thought of that so was thinking maybe it has to be a day that the NWS records Cooling Degree days. MDT got to 79 in Feb '18 but apparently has a limit on when they record CDD as it still says 0.
That is one of the main points of the discussion:
1) Adjust from 90 to a set amount above normal (7 degrees? 5 Degrees?)
-OR-
2) Adjust from actual temp to heat indices but still use the normal as the baseline. So heat index of +7 AN for 5 or more days. It got to 89 here yesterday but the DP's were in the low 60's so in the shade it was just a slightly warm day.