Fall or summer? Scorching, record-breaking heat hits Northeast
It may be October, but temperatures are soaring across the Northeast.
Before it even hit noon, Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., reached 91 degrees, setting a new daily record for high temperature.
D.C.'s Reagan National Airport climbed to a scorching 97 degrees, breaking the all-time high temperature record in the month of October. The last record was 96 degrees, set in October 1941.
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New York City's Central Park hit 92 degrees Wednesday.
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And in nearby Newark, New Jersey, the temperature climbed to 94 degrees, an all-time October high.
Philadelphia hit 93 degrees, the first time since 1941 to reach the 90s in October.
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Temperatures are also sizzling in the South. Atlanta and Dallas reached 95 degrees on Wednesday and Nashville experienced 97 degrees.
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But the Northeast heat won't last long.
Temperatures are expected to plunge to 55 degrees in Hartford and 60 degrees in New York by Thursday.
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