ATLANTA — Where are you, fall? The season is here but the temperatures are still feeling like the middle of summer.
Thursday has been the hottest October day in history for Georgia. Temperatures reached a record 97 degrees.
"Not only will it be the hottest day for this day in history, it will also go down as the hottest day ever in the month of October," Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Katie Walls said.
Temperatures reached 97 degrees between 1:35 and 1:40 p.m. Around 2 p.m., temps cooled down to around 95 degrees.
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By 7 p.m., temperatures will be in the lower 90s.
Where the temperatures were Thursday morning, around 77 degrees, is usually our high for the afternoon.
On Wednesday, we broke the former record of 95 degrees for the day, set in 1954, when it went up to 96.
First pitch against the St. Louis Cardinals is at 5:02pm and it will be one of the hottest first pitches ever. By the ninth inning, temperatures will still be running in the upper 80s and feeing more like the dead of August. GO BRAVES! @Braves pic.twitter.com/iCgs9JRnm1
— Katie Walls (@KatieWallsWSB) October 3, 2019
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