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Samantha Hayes reporting Without a calendar, you might think this was mid June in Salt Lake CIty!
Our temperatures are almost 20 degrees above average this week. The heat is expected to continue for awhile.
Many people have been caught in the same situation.
With a cool spring, they put off air conditioning. Many thought they had a few more weeks. Now they are sweatin it out.
Even at 10 o'clock at night, its still 78 degrees outside.
A birds eye view of the valley by Chopper 5 shows a lot of folks working in very hot conditions: Building homes, laying asphalt.
If you wanted cool temperatures, you had to be up by 6am that's when it was 61 degrees.
"I'm a summer person a warm weather person."
By noon- Salt Lake City was already 82- more than ten degrees above average.
"Get sunshine, be outside and enjoy the weather."
By 4 it was 88 - the high for the day. Too hot for some.
"I don't want to be outside its too hot."
But inside it's also too hot. Lots of people figured that out when they tried to start their air conditioning or swamp coolers.
"Our phones are ringing off the hook literally."
"Sixty calls a day 300 calls a week."
By 6p tonight it was 87 degrees, and Paul Hartman was still on the job installing air conditioning units.
Paul Hartman, Air Conditioning: "People don't want to wait two weeks so volunteer to work weeknights and get people taken care of quicker."
Pam Brimhall, Homeowner: "I had the choice of waiting three weeks or today paying 200 dollars extra it was worth it to it cool in my house."
An early hassle- after an early start to the summer.
In Northern Utah this time of year our temperatures are usually in the low seventies for a high.
