South Dakota gets on the weather map

In our local paper today:

A South Dakota ranch just missed being the hottest spot on Earth Saturday as state records that stood for 70 years were toppled by triple-digit heat. A rancher who records temperatures for the National Weather Service reported a high of 120 degrees on a ranch 27 miles northwest of Faith, near the small town of Usta. If it stands, it will tie the all-time state record high of 120 set on July 5, 1936, at Gann Valley. That's the hottest it has ever been in South Dakota, "any date, any year, any location," said Todd Heitkamp, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls. "It is just brutally hot," said rancher Patty Kelly, who has collected data for the weather service since the mid-1980s. It will be up to the weather service to verify the reading at her ranch, which would make it official.

So... what do we do on a very hot day? Number Four had fun with bubbles.