Only a few hot holdouts in the Deep South and Gulf Coast are left after a fall heat wave smashed not only hundreds of daily records, but also some November monthly records. Heat relief has now moving in after record setting temperatures dating back to October 27.

This continued what has been a much warmer-than-average October-early November for the vast majority of Americans east of the Rockies, including a mid-October warm spell that shattered records.

On Friday, record high temperatures were set in:

• Mobile, Alabama (88 degrees)
• Apalachicola, Florida (88 degrees)
• New Iberia, Louisiana (87 degrees)
• Grand Island, Nebraska (79 degrees)

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Heat Wave Recap

Thursday, October 27, Phoenix smashed their record latest-in-season 100-degree high by four days.

Other record highs were tied or set Thursday in Denver (83 degrees), Salt Lake City (78 degrees) and Tucson, Arizona (97 degrees). 

Friday, October 28, record highs were shattered in Garden City, Kansas (91 degrees - old record was 83), and Dodge City, Kansas (92 degrees - old record was 85) and new records were set in Amarillo, Texas (87 degrees), Pueblo, Colorado (87 degrees) and Meridian, Mississippi (89 degrees).

Friday was the fifth daily record high this month in Meridian, and was their hottest temperature so late in the season. Previously, the latest they reached 89 degrees was October 26, 2010. This is their average high on September 8.

Daily record high temperatures were toppled in many cities on Saturday. Among them were Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees), and Amarillo, Texas (91 degrees), which both saw their warmest temperature so late in the calendar year.

Daily record highs were also set Saturday in Asheville, North Carolina (81 degrees), Blacksburg, Virginia (79 degrees), Nashville, Tennessee (86 degrees), Tupelo, Mississippi (89 degrees), St. Louis, Missouri (86 degrees), and Phoenix, Arizona (96 degrees).

Numerous daily record highs were broken Sunday. Atlanta's record high of 86 degrees was the latest 86-degree day on record there, surpassing the previous date of Oct. 28, 1940. 

Meridian, Mississippi, hit 90 degrees Sunday, the latest such reading on record, there, beating the previous record by a full week (Oct. 23, 1941), not to mention adding to a new yearly record of 90-degree-plus days, there.

Other daily records were tied or set Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama (87 degrees), Knoxville, Tennessee (83 degrees), New Orleans (87 degrees), Austin, Texas (88 degrees), Washington D.C.'s Dulles Airport (84 degrees), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (81 degrees), and Atlantic City, New Jersey (80 degrees). 

Dozens of daily record highs were broken Monday, making it the hottest Halloween on record in those cities.

Among those, at least four cities set their hottest temperatures so late in the season, including Atlanta (86 degrees), Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees), Muscle Shoals, Alabama (88 degrees), and Tallahassee, Florida (90 degrees).

A number of other cities reached 90 degrees on Halloween, including Colby, Kansas, Dodge City, Kansas, Garden City, Kansas, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, Montgomery, Alabama, Albany, Georgia, and Macon, Georgia.

Meridian, Mississippi, has arguably been an epicenter city for this heat wave, reaching 91 degrees on back-to-back days October 30 and 31. 

Other Halloween daily records tied or set included Colorado Springs (80 degrees), Nashville, Tennessee (85 degrees), New Orleans (89 degrees), Jacksonville, Florida (86 degrees), Savannah, Georgia (87 degrees), and Amarillo, Texas (87 degrees).

Tuesday, Nov. 1, all-time November record highs were tied or broken in at least 22 locations, including:

• Austin, Texas (91 degrees)
• Birmingham, Alabama (88 degrees)
• Cincinnati, Ohio (82 degrees)
• Columbus, Ohio (80 degrees)
• Huntsville, Alabama (88 degrees)
• Knoxville, Tennessee (85 degrees)
• Louisville, Kentucky (85 degrees)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin (77 degrees)
• Nashville, Tennessee (88 degrees)
• New Orleans, Louisiana (87 degrees)

Dozens of other daily records were set Tuesday from west Texas to West Virginia.

On Wednesday, numerous cities set or tied all-time November high-temperature records. These included:

• New Orleans, Louisiana (88 degrees - broken)
• Galveston, Texas (85 degrees - tied, originally set in 1886)
• Louisville, Kentucky (85 degrees - tied, set Tuesday)
• Roanoke, Virginia (83 degrees - tied, originally set in 1950)
• Lynchburg, Virginia (83 degrees - tied, originally set in 1950)

On a related note, dew point values in parts of Oklahoma reached November record highs Wednesday, according to staff at the Oklahoma Mesonet.

Daily high-temperature records were set Wednesday in:

• McAllen, Texas (98 degrees)
• New Orleans, Louisiana (88 degrees)
• Shreveport, Louisiana (87 degrees)
• St. Louis, Missouri (85 degrees)
• Nashville, Tennessee (85 degrees)
• Morgantown, West Virginia (82 degrees)
• Joplin, Missouri (82 degrees),
• Springfield, Missouri (80 degrees)
• Cleveland, Ohio (78 degrees)
• Akron, Ohio (77 degrees).  

One other interesting tidbit is that Pittsburgh set a daily record of 80 degrees Wednesday, making it only the fourth time a high of 80 degrees was recorded in November.

Thursday, November monthly record highs were tied in Atlanta (84 degrees) and Mobile, Alabama (87 degrees). 

Dozens of daily record highs were tied or broken Thursday, November 3, in the mid-Atlantic and South, including:

• Memphis, Tennessee (85 degrees)
• Tupelo, Mississippi (87 degrees)
• Jackson, Tennessee (87 degrees)
• Atlantic City, New Jersey (81 degrees)
• Georgetown, Delaware (83 degrees)
• Pensacola, Florida (85 degrees)
• Athens, Georgia (85 degrees)
• Macon, Georgia (86 degrees)
• Norfolk, Virginia (83 degrees)
• Richmond, Virginia (83 degrees)
• Salisbury, Virginia (82 degrees)
• Augusta, Georgia (87 degrees)
• Washington D.C. (83 degrees)
• Houston (88 degrees)
• Tallahassee, Florida (88 degrees)
• Shreveport, Louisiana (86 degrees)

Meridian, Mississippi, extended its streak of daily record highs tied or set to seven straight days Thursday.

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