Over 1000 Records For Heat Wave!
UPDATE: The totals and graph below changed considerably in the upcoming months as more records came in. Below is a look at what the final numbers were. For the 6-day period specificed below...
August 6-11, 2007: 1,827 Records Tied or Broken
ORIGINAL POST: Here's a summary of this week's record-breaking heat and humidity wave as of Saturday. Since most areas cooled off slightly today, this is the last version of this list.
A total of
high temperature records were tied (328) or broken (723) between Monday and Saturday.
Augusta, Georgia broke their daily record high from 1878 on Tuesday, reaching 104. Wilmington, NC tied their Wednesday record from 1879 at 98 degrees.
Greenville, South Carolina set an all-time maximum low (overnight) record temperature of 76 Wednesday. 104 also tied the all-time record high at Charlotte, NC Thursday and Roanoke, VA set a new all-time maximum low at 79. Same thing for Wilmington, NC which only dipped to 83 degrees Thursday. On Friday, Augusta, GA tied their all-time record high temp at 108, as did Columbia, SC at 107. Previous reports that Greenville, SC had tied or exceeded their record high may be incorrect. Clarification will be posted here later.
Johnstown, SC: 107 (8/9)
Tuscaloosa, AL: 107 (8/10)
Montgomery, AL: 106 (8/11)
Florence, SC: 106 (8/8), 105 (8/9)
Laurinburg, NC: 106 (8/9)
Columbia, SC: 105 (8/8)
Elgin, SC: 105 (8/9)
Bishopville, SC: 105 (8/9)
111 @ Goldsboro GWW, NC: (Tue.)*
109 @ VUJ (Wed. & Thu.)
108 @ HFF, GWW, (Thu.)
107 @ MEB, MQY (Thu.)
Charleston, SC (Multiple Locations): 82-84 (Tue.-Wed.)
Wilmington, NC: 83 (Thu.)
125 at Manteo MQI, NC (Thu.)
125 at Brunswick BQK, GA (Thu.; 121 Tue. & Wed.)
123 at Franklin FKN, VA (Thu.; 121 Wed.)
123 at Jacksonville OAJ, NC (Thu.)
121 at Chesapeake CPK, VA (Wed.)
121 at Charleston CHS, SC (Thu.)
121 at Waycross AYS, GA (Thu. & Fri.)
There's no easy way for me to determine the maximum RealFeel temperatures this week (RealFeel (tm) is an index similar to Heat Index, but taking more into account) but from the stations above, I saw these readings this week:
131 at Franklin
129 at Brunswick
128 at Chesapeake
124 at Manteo
122 at Jacksonville
122 at Waycross
86: MQI, JKA
84: HXD, BQK, TBR
83: NCA, SVN, LHW
82: FFA, MRH, NKT, OCW, MYR, CRE, AYS, FYJ, JGG, SHD, PQL, DBN, SAV, VDI, BFM
81: ASJ, CTZ, GLW, SNL, CPK, PCP, DPL, EWN, OAJ, UDG, BIJ, VAD
80: EWM, HSE, CHS, LFI, NBC, FAF, SSI, VDI
"Records" obtained from NCDC Records and SERCC. Lookup 3-letter codes by preceding them with a "K" at this site.
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