Record-matching warmth will continue in an easterly trek across the nation onMonday.High temperatures in the 80s and even lower 90s will break, or at least rival,standing record highs in a swath across the Ohio and Mississippi valleys to theEastern Seaboard.
Warming well into the 80s, the Washington, D.C., area will get a new recordhigh for October 11 at Dulles International Airport in nearby northernVirginia. The standing record is 78 F last reached in 2001.
Atlanta is a good bet to rewrite its record books as temperatures will soarwell into the 80s. The old record mark of 86 F was set in 1954.
Temperatures at Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala., will take a run at theexisting record highs, as will readings from Columbia, S.C., to Nashville andKnoxville, Tenn. In these areas, highs will be in the mid 80s to about 90 F.
Other than some cooling over the Mid Atlantic to the eastern Ohio Valley, theseareas will bask in unusual, near-record warmth again on Tuesday.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews
