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Flooding Threat Continues in Portions of Texas; Poor Air Quality in the Great Lakes through the Mid-Atlantic

Widespread life-threatening flash and urban flooding continues in south-central Texas, with considerable flooding impacts possible across central Texas. Wildfire smoke is impacting air quality across much of the Great Lakes region into southern New England and the Mid-Atlantic. Monsoonal thunderstorms may produce isolated to scattered flash flooding across the Southwest into the Great Basin. Read More >

...HOT DAY ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH, 2007...
...RECORD HIGH MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE TIED AUGUST 7TH AT COLUMBIA...
...RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURE SET AUGUST 7TH AT COLUMBIA...

THE FOLLOWING ARE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE REPORTS FOR AUGUST 7 2007 
ACROSS THE MIDLANDS AND CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA...

LOCATION.................COUNTY/STATE......MAX TEMP...SOURCE

OFFICIAL REPORTS

COLUMBIA METRO AIRPORT...LEXINGTON CO SC....102*.......ASOS
COLUMBIA OWENS FIELD.....RICHLAND CO SC.....103........ASOS 
AUGUSTA BUSH FIELD.......RICHMOND CO GA.....104*.......ASOS
AUGUSTA DANIEL FIELD.....RICHMOND CO GA.....102........ASOS
ORANGEBURG MUN APT.......ORANGEBURG CO SC....99........ASOS

* RECORD HIGHS FOR THE DATE ESTABLISHED AT BOTH COLUMBIA 
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT...AND AT AUGUSTA REGIONAL BUSH FIELD.

THE 102 AT COLUMBIA METROPOLITAN AIRPORT (CAE) TUESDAY TIED
THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DAY.  THIS WAS ALSO SET BACK IN 1968.

THE 104 AT AUGUSTA REGIONAL BUSH FIELD SET THE DAILY RECORD
FOR THE DATE.  THIS BROKE THE OLD RECORD OF 103...WHICH WAS
SET IN 1878.