A paving crew from Langlade County sizzled on Highway D this morning. |
Summer does arrive in Antigo June 23, 2009 Roofers and highway employees didn’t need a reminder that summer arrived in Langlade County on Sunday.
“It’s hot out here,” the guys on the paving crew from the Langlade County Highway Department said this morning as they were working along Highway D southeast of Antigo.
The mix of asphalt comes out of the machinery in the town of Neva at about 300 degrees, and today it didn’t get much of a chance to chill before the spreader was working.
“I think it is about 185,” one of the workers said as pavement was being laid. He looked warm.
Weather statistics showed that it was 72 degrees in Antigo and 8 a.m. and 88 at noon, and the National Weather Service was predicting before the sun started to set on central Wisconsin, the high would be in the area of 90 — which is about three or four degrees below the record.
The weather service was suggesting that people working outdoors — like the men on the paving crew — take precautions to avoid heat stroke.
A cold front is forecast to move into Minnesota and bring storms into central Wisconsin tomorrow.
The storms, the service said, may be strong.
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