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Fire Weather Concerns for the Plains; Record Warmth Spreads

Dry and breezy conditions prevail across the High Plains where elevated to locally critical conditions continue through today. Meanwhile, record warmth increases and spreads across the South, Southwest and into southern California into this last weekend of February. Meanwhile, a fast moving system moves across the central Plains then off the mid-Atlantic by this evening. Read More >

TOP INDIVIDUAL DAYS - AUGUST
ALEXANDRIA
 

Warmest August Highs
Alexandria
1892-2025

t1 110 8/19/2023
t1 110 8/24/2023
t3 109 8/20/2023
t3 109 8/27/2023
t5 108 8/31/2000
t5 108 8/14/2023
t5 108 8/23/2023
t5 108 8/26/2023
t9 107 many dates

 

Coolest August Lows
Alexandria
1892-2025

1 54 8/14/2004
t2 55 8/22/1893
t2 55 8/29/1896
t4 56 8/11/1893
t4 56 8/28/1896
t4 56 8/29/1906
t4 56 8/15/2004
t8 57 many dates

 

Wettest August Days
Alexandria
1892-2025

1 5.70 8/7/1998
2 5.30 8/29/2010
3 5.15 8/27/2020
4 5.03 8/29/1978
5 3.87 8/16/1985
6 3.85 8/15/1938
7 3.52 8/29/2007
8 3.30 8/6/1984
9 3.20 8/23/1958
t10 3.10 8/27/1900
t10 3.10 8/8/1944

 


Warmest & Coolest is temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
Wettest is rainfall in inches