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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS
1110 AM CDT MON JUN 03 2024

...RECORD WARMEST MAY AT BATON ROUGE...
...RECORD WARMEST SPRING AT BATON ROUGE...

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF MAY IN BATON ROUGE WAS 80.7
DEGREES. THIS SETS A RECORD FOR THE WARMEST MONTH OF MAY. THE
PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 79.4 DEGREES IN 1933.

ADDITIONALLY...FOR METEOROLOGICAL SPRING...DEFINED AS MARCH, APRIL
AND MAY...2024 WAS THE WARMEST SPRING ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE OF 72.6 DEGREES. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 72.1 DEGREES
SET IN 2012.

RECORDS GO BACK TO 1893 FOR BATON ROUGE.

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