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Water vapor image of the ridge of high pressure centered over the central US Wednesday morning.
Last weekend, a large high pressure area settled over the Central High Plains. The associated airmass was unusually warm and dry, resulting in high temperature records being tied or broken across the region since last Saturday. The table below shows the high temperatures reached each day at the official stations in the area. The portions of the table shaded in yellow indicate daily records, those in orange show monthly records and a cell in red indicates an all-time record.
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Station |
June 23 |
June 24 |
June 25 |
June 26 |
June 27 |
|
Goodland KS |
106 F Tied daily record (106 in 1954) |
109 F New daily record(107 in 1971) |
107 F New daily record (104 in 1990) |
110 F New daily record (107 in 1971) New monthly record (109 in 1936) |
110 F New daily record (106 in 1940) Tied monthly record (110 in 2012)
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|
Hill City KS |
111 F New daily record (107 in 1952) |
114 F New daily record (108 in 1971) |
111 F New daily record (108 in 1911) |
115 F New daily record (110 in 1980) New monthly record (113 in 1946) |
115 F New daily record (107 in 1940) Tied monthly record (115 in 2012)
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|
McCook NE |
103 F
|
105 F |
103 F |
115 F New daily record (103 in 1998) New monthly record (112 in 1933) New all-time record (114 in 1932)
|
109 F New daily record (107 in 1980) |
|
Burlington CO |
103 F
|
105 F |
103 F |
106 F New daily record (102 in 1990)
|
106 F New daily record (104 in 1963) |
END