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The hottest summer on record in Chattanooga ended Wednesday, but those looking for autumn relief from the heat will have to wait until at least Sunday.
WRCB-TV Meteorologist Paul Barys said high temperatures in Chattanooga are expected to remain in the 90s today, Friday and Saturday before cooling off with rain early next week.
More normal fall temperatures wont come until Sunday, Barys said.
BY THE NUMBERS
* 83 Average temperature in Chattanooga during June, July and August, or 5.2 degrees above normal.
* 7.91 Inches of rain in Chattanooga during June, July and August, or 4.4 inches below normal.
* 111 Peak heat index in degrees reached in Nashville on Aug. 4, when the actual temperatures averaged 100 degrees across the Tennessee Valley
* 34 Number of days this summer on which the heat index in Memphis was at least 105 degrees
This weeks hotter-than-normal weather pushed the mercury on Tuesday to 97 degrees just one degree shy of the all-time record and is an extension of what was the warmest June, July and August in Chattanooga since the National Weather Service began keeping temperature records in 1879.
Hottest summer in record extends into autumn | Chattanooga Times Free Press
All these reports of individual Places having heat records in meaning less man. Unless you post them along side with all the places that have had record cool temperatures at the same time. For instance earlier this summer when the East coast and mid west was having Record heat. The pacific Coast was having cooler than normal temps.
Context man, context.