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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
100 PM MST TUE MAY 8 2001

...TUCSON HITS 100 DEGREES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2001...

AT 1236 PM MST...THE THERMOMETER AT THE TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
HIT 100 DEGREES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2001. THIS MARKS THE SIXTH 
EARLIEST OCCURRENCE ON RECORD IN TUCSON. THE FIVE EARLIEST OCCURRENCES
WERE:

1) APRIL 19, 1989
2) APRIL 27, 1992
   APRIL 27, 1910
4) MAY    2, 1947
5) MAY    7, 1895

THE AVERAGE FIRST DATE IS MAY 27TH. SINCE 1984...THE AVERAGE TIME HAS
BEEN 1:27 PM.

GLUECK

(MORE INFORMATION ON WHEN THE FIRST 100 OCCURRED IN TUCSON CAN BE 
FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE AT:  
HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/TUzCSON/CLIMATE/1ST100_TUS.HTML)

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