National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

Map of high temperatures on Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Red outlines indicate broken record highs; Orange outlines denote tied records

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
854 PM CST WED JAN 4 2012

...NUMEROUS RECORDS FOR WARMTH BROKEN OR TIED JANUARY 4TH...

WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES WARMING INTO THE 50S AND LOWER 60S ACROSS
SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
THERE WERE NUMEROUS RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ACROSS THE AREA. SOME
OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURES AND RECORDS INCLUDED:

                       HIGH     PREVIOUS
    CITY             JAN 4TH     RECORD   YEAR
    ---------------  -------    --------  ----
    ACADEMY SD          60         55     1935
    MITCHELL SD         58         54     1987
    SIOUX CITY IA       58         54     1964
    VERMILLION SD       58*        58     1989
    HURON SD            57         54     1987
    YANKTON SD          57         56     1989
    SIOUX FALLS SD      54*        54     1916
    DESMET SD           52         50     1962
    SIOUX CENTER IA     52         49     1964

    * TIED RECORD

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