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