There was a 1975 movie called 92 in the Shade. It was on HBO back then when we subscribed to it. With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margo Kidder.
I never watched it and I don't know if this is true, but according to the Home Box Office guide, 92 degrees is the temperature at which murders are most likely to occur.
That came to mind when I read this on another website:
Maybe the “crime wave” isn’t the fault of progressive prosecutors after all: “Research shows that on average, violent crime increases by over 5% on days hotter than 85 degrees compared to days below that threshold. Studies mapping violent crime and weather in L.A. and Chicago show violence reliably rising with the temperature.”
Hard to believe that researchers were so much more precise in the '70's coming up with 92 degrees as the peak murder temperature.
At the time, I had the impression that the movie was a sort of overwrought
romance gone bad, but it turns out it was about weirdly violent
competition between charter fishing boat operators.
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