TODAY’S WEATHERThough Chattanooga missed a new high Wednesday, temperatures could reach record-setting levels today. The all-time high of 93 degrees for May 12 was recorded in 1962, and today’s forecast calls for a high of 90.Source: National Weather Service
With sweat pouring off most anyone spending time outside Wednesday, it would have been easy to believe it was the hottest May 11 Chattanooga ever had seen.
But that wouldn’t quite be true.
The temperature reached 91 degrees Wednesday – a full 13 degrees above May 11 averages – tying the day’s record high, said Paul Barys, chief meteorologist with WRCB-TV Channel 3. The thermometer originally climbed to that record-setting level back in 1963.
A dome of high pressure has been hanging above the South all week, according to National Weather Service meteorologist David Hotz, and that dome has caused more than just extreme temperatures.