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Today will be the 71st day of the year to reach 90 degrees. We’ll have to wait until next week to break the record as this tropical depression approaches.

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of 90+ heat…and counting.

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Hi. Hi. Hi….or should that be HIGH. The WRAL Weather blog has a nice entry summarizing the miserably hot August, the hottest month on record. Check out these records:

• We reached 90 degrees or higher on 30 of August’s 31 days (11 is normal)
• The average temperature of 84.1 degrees exceeded the old record (80.6) by more than the difference between the old record and the norm (77.2).
• We broke or tied records for the hottest high and low temperatures on 10 of 31 days, each.

As of today, we stand at 68 days reaching 90 degrees or more. The record for a year is 72, set in 1953, and the normal number is only 39. Given the forecasted highs for today, Thu, and Fri of 96, 95, and 92, respectively, we could be in a position to break the record early next week. Stay tuned!

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Check out the story from the front page of Sunday’s N&O depicting the problems of people getting DWI’s and let back on the streets, only to get a second DWI within hours. Several cases were cited, however the most interesting was that of Mary Kathryn Stone who looked pretty darned good during her 5:13pm arrest. What in the world happened in the ensuing 10.5 hours? Most people would say that women like this look better as the night goes on. Whoah! This looks like one of those Faces of Meth cases!

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