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RECORD EVENT REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
220 PM CST SAT JAN 26 2002

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHWEST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 214 PM CST THE TEMPERATURE AT THE SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT HIT 71
DEGREES. THIS NOT ONLY ELIMINATES THE OLD RECORD HIGH FOR THE DATE
OF 60 DEGREES SET IN 1947...BUT IS A NEW ALL TIME RECORD FOR THE 
MONTH OF JANUARY. THE OLD ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE 
MONTH OF JANUARY IN SIOUX CITY WAS 70 DEGREES SET ON JANUARY 24 1981.

ALSO YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA REACHED 68 DEGREES BEFORE 2 PM THIS 
AFTERNOON...BEATING THE OLD RECORD FOR TODAY OF 65 SET IN 1947.

JUST AFTER 2 PM SIOUX FALLS TEMPERATURE REACHED 61 DEGREES...
FOR A NEW RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY. THE OLD RECORD FOR TODAY WAS
59 SET IN 1947. 

THERE HAS BEEN ONLY 3 OTHER TIMES THAT SIOUX FALLS HAS REACHED
60 DEGREES OR MORE IN JANUARY...SINCE RECORDS BEGAN HERE IN 1893.
THEY WERE 66 ON JANUARY 24 1981...62 ON JANUARY 29 1931...AND
60 ON JANUARY 13 1987. 

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