000 SXUS73 KDTX 280043 RERDTX RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 830 PM EDT MON APR 27 2009 ...MINI APRIL HEATWAVE COMES TO AN END WITH ANOTHER RECORD HIGH TIED AT DETROIT... IN THE LAST THREE OUT OF FOUR DAYS...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN TIED AT DETROIT...NONE SURPASSED THE OLD RECORDS JUST EQUALED THEM. A HIGH OF 84 WAS ATTAINED AT 433 PM EDT THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND ONCE AGAIN THE OLD RECORD WAS EQUALED (AND THUS...SUPERSEDED). THE OLD RECORD(S) OF 84 WAS SET AN IMPRESSIVE THREE TIMES...FIRST IN 1938...1962 AND LASTLY BEFORE TODAY...1990 (SO NOW...FOUR TIMES). TO RECAP THE OTHER RECORDS... A HIGH OF 86 ON SUNDAY (4/26) TIED THE OLD RECORD OF 86 SET FIRST IN 1915. THE ONLY MISS IN THE STRING WAS ON SATURDAY WHEN THE HIGH REACHED 84 WHICH FELL THREE DEGREES SHY OF THE OLD RECORD OF 87. THEN BACK ON FRIDAY...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 86 DEGREES ALSO TIED (AND SUPERSEDED) THE OLD RECORD OF 86 SET FIRST IN 1960. BY THE WAY...THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN APRIL REMAINS SAFE AND THAT WAS BACK ON APRIL 12TH 1977 WHEN 89 OCCURRED. $$ DEEDLER