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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
123 PM EDT MON OCT 15 2007

...UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES RECORDED LAST WEEK...

UNSEASONABLY WARM WEATHER OCCURRED LAST WEEK AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE 
THAT BROUGHT AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES OVER THE 
MIDWEST MOVED OVER SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. WARM DRY AIR LED TO 
RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY...OCTOBER 9 AND 
WEDNESDAY...OCTOBER 10 BEFORE A COLD FRONT PUSHED INTO THE AREA AND 
ALLOWED A RETURN TO NORMAL HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S. 
TEMPERATURES WERE ABLE TO REACH THE UPPER 80S IN SEVERAL AREAS WITH 
A FEW PLACES REACHING AROUND 90 ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WHICH LED 
TO LOCATIONS EXPERIENCING RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 10 DEGREES 
ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

THE FOLLOWING ARE HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS DURING THIS 2 DAY PERIOD.

CHARLESTON AIRPORT
A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 88 DEGREES WAS TIED AT CHARLESTON  
AIRPORT WEDNESDAY...OCTOBER 10. THIS TIED THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH 
TEMPERATURE OF 88 SET IN 1941.

DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON
THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDED AT DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON ON 
TUESDAY...OCTOBER 9...WAS 86 DEGREES. THIS TIED THE RECORD HIGH 
TEMPERATURE OF 86 PREVIOUSLY REACHED IN 1960.

THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDED AT DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON ON 
WEDNESDAY...OCTOBER 10...WAS 86 DEGREES. THIS TIED THE RECORD HIGH 
TEMPERATURE OF 86 DEGREES PREVIOUSLY REACHED IN 1958.

...OTHER TUESDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES...

...SOUTH COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA...

BEAUFORT MCAS        87 
CHARLESTON AIRPORT   88
CHARLESTON DOWNTOWN  86
EDISTO BEACH PARK    87
JAMESTOWN            93
MCCLELLANVILLE 7NE   86
PRITCHARDVILLE       89
RIDGEVILLE           89
WITHERBEE RAWS       90

...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

BROOKLET             89
HINESVILLE AWOS      89
METTER RAWS          89
MIDWAY RAWS          89
SAPELO ISLAND NERRS  87
SAVANNAH 1SW AWOS    89 
SAVANNAH AIRPORT     88

...OTHER WEDNESDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES...

...SOUTH COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA...
BEAUFORT MCAS        88
CHARLESTON AIRPORT   88
CHARLESTON DOWNTOWN  86
FORT MOULTRIE        89
GIVHANS              89
JAMESTOWN            91
MCCLELLANVILLE 7NE   85 
PRITCHARDVILLE       88
SUMMERVILLE          88
WALTERBORO           87
WITHERBEE RAWS       88

...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...

BROOKLET             89
HINESVILLE AWOS      88 
METTER RAWS          88
MIDWAY RAWS          88
ROCKY FORD           88
SAPELO ISLAND        90
SAPELO ISLAND NERRS  87
SAVANNAH 1SW AWOS    89
SAVANNAH AIRPORT     88

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