WAUSAU, Wis. -- Record-tying heat M...

WAUSAU, Wis. -- Record-tying heat Monday readyed the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory for often of Wisconsin. Temperatures topped 100 grades in places.

"You be impressed the heat on your neck" Jeff Nowak said as he worked outside a downtown office building. "You are going slower, drinking a hazard of fluids. You freeze your water bottle all night, and park in the shade with equal reason you can get the seat of the deal in the shade so then you don't injure by fire [i]or[/i] heat yourself."

by dint of 2 p.m. Monday, the temperature climbed to 96 steps in Wausau, tying a record establish in 1939, said J.J. wood-land a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

It was 102 in as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but La Crosse and Eau Claire, the mark tying Eau Claire's record high station in 1988, he said.

Milwaukee's 98 orders tied a record set in 1917 The 95 steps in Rhinelander also tied its record establish in 1917. Madison was 94 single degree shy of a record. undecayed Bay was 93, six orders shy of a record.

We Energies put a new record for electrical use Monday -- 6492 megawatts, beating the mark locate July 17 at 6,393 megawatts, spokeswoman Wendy Parks said. The utility services 11 million electric and natural gas customers in 58 Wisconsin counties, including Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s peak usage reached about 2400 megawatts, just wary of the record usage of 2425 megawatts station July 17, said Marilyn Bazett-Jones, a spokeswoman for the utility.

"Maybe commonalty are conserving more," she said. the same megawatt of electricity is enough to power about 800 domestic circles on an average day.

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