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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
1055 PM AKDT MON JUN 17 2013

...THREE HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS SMASHED IN ONE DAY...

EXCITEMENT ABOUNDED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEASTERN PRINCE
WILLIAM SOUND AS UNUSUALLY HOT TEMPERATURES WERE FELT ACROSS
THE REGION. FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS...HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS
HAVE BEEN TIED OR BROKEN...BUT TODAYS TEMPERATURES SOARED BEYOND
ANYTHING PREVIOUSLY SEEN IN THIS AREA. IN VALDEZ...THE DAILY HIGH
TEMPERATURE RECORD OF 75 DEGREES SET IN 1997 WAS SHATTERED WHEN...
AT 45 MINUTES AFTER 3 PM...THE MERCURY IN OUR THERMOMETER SHOT UP
TO 90 DEGREES. AFTER A BRIEF DIP BACK INTO THE UPPER 80S...THE
MERCURY AGAIN REGISTERED 90 DEGREES AT 15 MINUTES BEFORE 6 PM.
THIS ALSO CRUSHED THE ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR ANY DAY
OF THE YEAR...AND FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE...WHICH WAS 87 DEGREES AND
WAS ACHIEVED TWICE...ON BOTH THE 25TH AND THE 26TH OF JUNE IN 1953.
A LOCAL WEATHER SPOTTER IN TOWN RECORDED A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF
87 DEGREES NEAR THE HOSPITAL DURING THE MID-AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY
AS WELL. SUN-WORSHIPERS WERE OUT IN FORCE THROUGH THE MID TO LATE
EVENING HOURS...AS THE TEMPERATURE AT 10 PM WAS STILL AN ASTOUNDING
77 DEGREES.

ALONG THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY...WHERE THE D.O.T. ROAD WEATHER
INFORMATION SYSTEMS INSTRUMENTS ARE LOCATED...HIGH RECORDS WERE
ALSO SET. ALTHOUGH WE ONLY HAVE DATA AS FAR BACK AS JUST AFTER
THE TURN OF THIS CENTURY...THESE VALUES REPRESENT THE SITE EXTREMES
SINCE THEIR INSTALLATIONS. AT 12 MILE OF THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY...
AN ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH OF 90 DEGREES WAS ACHIEVED AT AROUND 10
MINUTES BEFORE 5 PM. ON THE INSTRUMENTS AT 19 MILE...AN ALL-TIME
RECORD HIGH OF 93 DEGREES WAS REACHED AT 20 MINUTES PAST 4 PM.
THE SENSORS AT THOMPSON PASS...LOCATED AT 25.7 MILE...INDICATED
AN ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH OF 77 DEGREES AT AROUND 25 MINUTES PAST
5 PM. THESE ALL-TIME RECORD HIGHS WERE...OF COURSE...DAILY AND
MONTHLY RECORD HIGHS AS WELL.

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WZ JUN 13
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