RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 415 PM CDT WED JAN 8 2003 ...DAILY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FALLS AGAIN AT THE ICEBOX OF THE NORTH... A NEW DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS SET THIS AFTERNOON AT THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS AIRPORT AS THE TEMPERATURE REACHED 45 DEGREES AT 250 PM. THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY WAS 43 DEGREES SET JUST A YEAR AGO IN 2002. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 450 PM CST WED JAN 8 2003 ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES TIED AT SIOUX FALLS AND YANKTON... THE HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY IN SIOUX FALLS HAS BEEN 57 DEGREES. THIS TIES THE RECORD FOR THE DATE WHICH WAS SET IN 2002. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE TODAY IN YANKTON HAS BEEN 59 DEGREES. THIS TIES THE RECORD FOR THE DATE WHICH WAS SET IN 2002. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI 1257 AM CST THU JAN 9 2003 ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES AT BOTH LA CROSSE AND ROCHESTER FOR JANUARY 8TH... AT 257 PM ON JANUARY 8TH...THE TEMPERATURE AT LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT TOPPED OUT AT 55 DEGREES...SETTING A RECORD HIGH FOR THE DATE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 49 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED IN 1880. AT 216 PM ON JANUARY 8TH...THE TEMPERATURE AT THE ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOPPED OUT AT 52 DEGREES...SETTING A RECORD HIGH FOR THE DATE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 45... WHICH OCCURRED IN 1933. RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 140 AM CST THU JAN 9 2002 ...AND THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING... ANOTHER DAY AND ANOTHER SET OF RECORD HIGHS ACROSS CENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. ABUNDANT SUNSHINE AND A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE HELPED MAKE WEDNESDAY'S TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE: MINNEAPOLIS MADE IT A PETE AND REPEAT YESTERDAY BY BREAKING THE OLD RECORD MAX OF 46 DEGREES SET WAY BACK IN 1902. THE NEW AND MUCH IMPROVED RECORD IS 54 DEGREES. ST CLOUD CARRIED THE THERMAL TORCH FOR ANOTHER DAY...POSTING A NEW RECORD HIGH OF 54 DEGREES...BESTING THE PREVIOUS READING OF 49 SET IN 2002. LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST WAS EAU CLAIRE...WHERE THE THERMOMETER REGISTERED A BALMY 53 DEGREES...RETIRING THE OLD RECORD HIGH OF 46 DEGREES REGISTERED BACK IN 1990 AND 2002. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 645 PM CST WED JAN 8 2003 ...RECORD WARMTH CONTINUES ACROSS MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN... ONE DAY OF TEMPERATURES FROM 30 TO 40 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL WAS IMPRESSIVE... BUT MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN WERE TREATED TO YET ANOTHER AFTERNOON OF EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH TODAY...MAKING FOR ONE OF THE WARMEST TWO DAY PERIODS IN HISTORY FOR EARLY JANUARY. LONGSTANDING TEMPERATURE RECORDS HAVE FALLEN STATEWIDE...WITH MANY RECORDS BEING SHATTERED BY 10 TO 12 DEGREES. IN WHAT IS NORMALLY ONE OF THE COLDEST WEEKS OF THE YEAR FOR WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA...TEMPERATURES HAVE RESEMBLED WHAT WOULD BE NORMAL HIGHS AND LOWS FOR EARLY APRIL...OR LATE OCTOBER. THE SHEER NUMBER OF RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE STATES...AND BY HOW MUCH THEY WERE BROKEN...LENDS TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS EXTREME WARMUP. FOLLOWING ARE THE HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS AT SELECTED CITIES ACROSS THE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN COUNTY WARNING AREA. OLD RECORDS FOR BOTH DAYS ARE ALSO GIVEN...AND A (**) DENOTES A HIGH TEMPERATURE WHICH DID NOT BREAK A RECORD. ...OFFICIAL CLIMATE RECORD LOCATIONS... LOCATION HIGH (1/7/03) OLD RECORD HIGH (TODAY) OLD RECORD -------------------------------------------------------------------- EAU CLAIRE, WI 49 45 (1949) 53 46 (2002) MINNEAPOLIS INTL 52 45 (1949) 54 46 (1902) ST. CLOUD 51 42 (1990) 54 49 (2002) ...UNOFFICIAL CLIMATE RECORD LOCATIONS... LOCATION HIGH (1/7/03) OLD RECORD HIGH (TODAY) OLD RECORD -------------------------------------------------------------------- ALBERT LEA 57 45 (1900) 54 49 (1963) ALEXANDRIA 42 41 (1949) 46 44 (1963) APPLETON 50 49 (1902) 54** 55 (1902) BENSON 54 44 (1963) 55 54 (1963) BLAINE 52 42 (1963) 55 44 (1990) CAMBRIDGE 52 43 (1949) 55 46 (1990) CRYSTAL 52 45 (1949) 55 46 (1902) EDEN PRAIRIE 53 45 (1949) 56 46 (1902) FAIRMONT 57 52 (1914) 57 52 (1914) FARIBAULT 55 44 (1949) 54 47 (1963) GLENWOOD 45 43 (1963) 48(T) 48 (1963) HUTCHINSON 54 45 (1963) 54 47 (1963) LAKEVILLE 55 44 (1902) 55 46 (1902) LITCHFIELD 50 44 (1990) 54 48 (1963) LITTLE FALLS 50 46 (1949) 54 46 (1990) MADISON 52** 53 (1990) 57 55 (1958) MANKATO 55 44 (1963) 54 51 (1963) MAPLE LAKE 54 42 (1990) 57 45 (1990) MONTEVIDEO 52 48 (1990) 57 56 (1963) MORA 54 44 (1949) 55 49 (1990) MORRIS 48 46 (1902) 54 52 (1902) NEW ULM 55** 59 (1933) 55 54 (1963) OSCEOLA, WI 52 NOT AVAILABLE 55 NOT AVAILABLE OWATONNA 55 NOT AVAILABLE 54 NOT AVAILABLE PRINCETON 52 45 (1990) 54 48 (1990) RED WING 52 44 (1949) 54 46 (1990) REDWOOD FALLS 56 48 (1990) 56 48 (1958) RICE LAKE, WI 46 NOT AVAILABLE 50 NOT AVAILABLE STAPLES 45 43 (1949) 48 42 (1958) ST. JAMES 59 45 (1963) 55 53 (1963) ST. PAUL 53 44 (1990) 56 47 (1990) SOUTH ST. PAUL 54 45 (1949) 55 46 (1902) WILLMAR 52 43 (1902) 54** 58 (1963)