Only a few hot holdouts in the Deep South and Gulf Coast are left after a fall heat wave smashed not only hundreds of daily records, but also some November monthly records. Heat relief, an odd thing to say in early November, is now moving in.
Thursday, November monthly record highs were tied in Atlanta (84 degrees) and Mobile, Alabama (87 degrees).
Dozens of daily record highs were tied or broken Thursday in the mid-Atlantic and South, including:
- Memphis, Tennessee (85 degrees)
- Tupelo, Mississippi (87 degrees)
- Jackson, Tennessee (87 degrees)
- Atlantic City, New Jersey (81 degrees)
- Georgetown, Delaware (83 degrees)
- Pensacola, Florida (85 degrees)
- Athens, Georgia (85 degrees)
- Macon, Georgia (86 degrees)
- Norfolk, Virginia (83 degrees)
- Richmond, Virginia (83 degrees)
- Salisbury, Virginia (82 degrees)
- Augusta, Georgia (87 degrees)
- Washington D.C. (83 degrees)
- Houston (88 degrees)
- Tallahassee, Florida (88 degrees)
- Shreveport, Louisiana (86 degrees)
Current Temperatures
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Fortunately, relief is gradually arriving, as a cold front continues to slide southward. Let's break down where more records may fall, and when the relief arrives.
Friday's Forecast
Forecast Highs Compared to Average Friday
- Cooler air will arrive in much of the East, and the Southeast will be a tad cooler but still warmer-than-average.
- Highs 10-20 degrees above average will warm the Plains, Midwest and South.
- 60s and 70s will surge as far north as the Canadian border with North Dakota.
- Cooler 40s, 50s and 60s will be the rule in the Northeast.
- 70s will replace the recent record heat in the Tennessee Valley, as 80s are pushed into the Deep South and Gulf Coast where a couple of daily record highs are still possible.
Saturday's Forecast
Forecast Highs Compared to Average Saturday
- Highs 10-20 degrees above average will surge into the western Great Lakes, while persisting in the Plains and South.
- 60s will surge as far north as the Lower Michigan, northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
- 70s will surge into southern Minnesota and South Dakota, and will be the rule in much of the South, though a few 80-degree readings can't be ruled out near the Gulf of Mexico.
Heat Wave Recap
Thursday, October 27, Phoenix smashed their record latest-in-season 100-degree high by four days.Friday, October 28, record highs were shattered in Garden City, Kansas (91 degrees - old record was 83), and Dodge City, Kansas (92 degrees - old record was 85) and new records were set in Amarillo, Texas (87 degrees), Pueblo, Colorado (87 degrees) and Meridian, Mississippi (89 degrees).
Friday was the fifth daily record high this month in Meridian, and was their hottest temperature so late in the season. Previously, the latest they reached 89 degrees was October 26, 2010. This is their average high on September 8.
Daily record high temperatures were toppled in many cities on Saturday. Among them were Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees), and Amarillo, Texas (91 degrees), which both saw their warmest temperature so late in the calendar year.
Daily record highs were also set Saturday in Asheville, North Carolina (81 degrees), Blacksburg, Virginia (79 degrees), Nashville, Tennessee (86 degrees), Tupelo, Mississippi (89 degrees), St. Louis, Missouri (86 degrees), and Phoenix, Arizona (96 degrees).
Numerous daily record highs were broken Sunday. Atlanta's record high of 86 degrees was the latest 86-degree day on record there, surpassing the previous date of Oct. 28, 1940.
Meridian, Mississippi, hit 90 degrees Sunday, the latest such reading on record, there, beating the previous record by a full week (Oct. 23, 1941), not to mention adding to a new yearly record of 90-degree-plus days, there.
Dozens of daily record highs were broken Monday, making it the hottest Halloween on record in those cities.
Among those, at least four cities set their hottest temperatures so late in the season, including Atlanta (86 degrees), Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees), Muscle Shoals, Alabama (88 degrees), and Tallahassee, Florida (90 degrees).
A number of other cities reached 90 degrees on Halloween, including Colby, Kansas, Dodge City, Kansas, Garden City, Kansas, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Montgomery, Alabama, Albany, Georgia, and Macon, Georgia.
Meridian, Mississippi, has arguably been an epicenter city for this heat wave, reaching 91 degrees on back-to-back days October 30 and 31.
Meridian, MS, arguably the October #heat epicenter. 9 daily record highs. 4 straight to end the month. Nov. rec. (87˚) in jeopardy. #mswx
Tuesday, Nov. 1, all-time November record highs were tied or broken in at least 22 locations, including:
- Austin, Texas (91 degrees)
- Birmingham, Alabama (88 degrees)
- Cincinnati, Ohio (82 degrees)
- Columbus, Ohio (80 degrees)
- Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees)
- Knoxville, Tennessee (85 degrees)
- Louisville, Kentucky (85 degrees)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (77 degrees)
- Nashville, Tennessee (88 degrees)
- New Orleans, Louisiana (87 degrees)
On Wednesday, numerous cities set or tied all-time November high-temperature records. These included:
- New Orleans, Louisiana (88 degrees - broken)
- Galveston, Texas (85 degrees - tied, originally set in 1886)
- Louisville, Kentucky (85 degrees - tied, set Tuesday)
- Roanoke, Virginia (83 degrees - tied, originally set in 1950)
- Lynchburg, Virginia (83 degrees - tied, originally set in 1950)
Daily high-temperature records were set Wednesday in McAllen, Texas (98 degrees), New Orleans, Louisiana (88 degrees), Shreveport, Louisiana (87 degrees), St. Louis, Missouri (85 degrees), Nashville, Tennessee (85 degrees), Morgantown, West Virginia (82 degrees), Joplin, Missouri (82 degrees), Springfield, Missouri (80 degrees), Cleveland, Ohio (78 degrees), and Akron, Ohio (77 degrees).
It's remarkable that we've had more high temperatures in the 90s this year than any other temperature range.
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