On this date in 1930, the high of 97 degrees tied a calendar-day record. It was the second of three days to reach at least 90 degrees and one of 13 such days that month. It became the fourth hottest September on record and followed a scorching summer in which the temperature reached the triple digits 11 times. It also came in the midst of one of the area’s worst droughts ever observed.
Here are other notables from this date:
- Average high: 81
- Average low: 65
- Record high: 97 (1930)
- Record low: 43 (1902)
- Record rainfall: 2.52 inches (1904)
