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

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

BETWEEN 2 AND 3 PM 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 HIGH 
FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY. THE OLD ALL TIME RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH 
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.

AROUND 3 PM SIOUX FALLS TEMPERATURE REACHED 63 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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