Now that is hot...

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It’s so hot that horse manure spontaneously caught fire in upstate New York

On July 5, an awful smell wafted into the town of Throop, N.Y. Throop is a small village tucked amid the Finger Lakes, a half-hour drive west of Syracuse. In the month leading up to the fumes, the U.S. temperatures had cranked up to record highs, data from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration show. Throop was not exempt from the summer swelter. Nor did the heat wave stop, continuing to sap the town dry in July.

Finger Lakes farmers bemoaned the lack of moisture. “We are just beginning July now, and what is August going to be like? This is nuts,” Jarret Winum, who runs a farm in nearby Stanley, N.Y., with his wife, told the Daily Messenger in early July. “We need rain.”

What came instead was the stench.

Concerned, residents of Throop called New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. The department traced the stinking and smoking source, per the DEC’s Wednesday statement, to a “burning pile of horse manure” outside an unnamed Throop stable.

The poop had spontaneously combusted.

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