THE HEAT IS ON
Since 1993, weather during the SEMO District Fair, held the first full week after Labor Day each year:
Average high: 81.9
Average low: 57.4
Highest high: 94, Sept.10, 11, 2002
Highest low: 69, Sept. 14, 1998
Lowest high: 57, Sept. 15, 1993
Lowest low: 41, Sept. 14, 17, 1999
Heaviest rain: 0.97 inch, Sept. 16, 1995
Highest high-temperature average for the week before 2002: 87.1, Sept. 11-17, 1994
Lowest low-temperature average for the week before 2002: 45.1, Sept. 12-18, 1999
SOURCE: Southeast Missourian archives
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