Arizona gets some interesting new minimum high records

From the “weather is not climate department”….whether it is cold or snow, long lived records keep falling, and recently in large numbers.

Today, new “minimum high” records fell in a traditionally warm southwest state.

Flagstaff, and Prescott, Williams, and Winslow Arizona all significantly bested the old records set on this date. Here’s the outlook map from the NWS Flagstaff:

And here is the NWS record event report:

FGZ

RECORD EVENT REPORT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FLAGSTAFF, AZ

713 PM MST WED OCT 28 2009

...RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA ON OCT 28 2009...

CITY (PERIOD OF RECORD)          NEW LOW HIGH    PREVIOUS RECORD/YEAR

FLAGSTAFF (1898 - 2009)                32          35         IN  1996

FORT VALLEY (1909 - 2009)              31          32         IN  1972

GRAND CANYON NP S RIM (1966 - 2009)    36          37         IN  1989

GREER (1905 - 2009)                    27          35         IN  1991

HEBER RS (1950 - 2009)                 31          36         IN  1976

PAGE (1958 - 2009)                     42          48         IN  1996

PHANTOM RANCH (1966 - 2009)            48          58         IN  2000

PRESCOTT (1898 - 2009)                 38          46         IN  1996

WILLIAMS (1897 - 2009)                 30          39         IN  1996

WINSLOW (1893 - 2009)                  43          47         IN  1991

...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FOR NORTHERN ARIZONA ON OCT 28 2009...

CITY (PERIOD OF RECORD)            NEW LOW       PREVIOUS RECORD/YEAR

NAVAJO NM (1939 - 2009)                16          19         IN  1970

PHANTOM RANCH (1966 - 2009)            41          41 (TIED)  IN  1970

THESE RECORDS ARE PRELIMINARY PENDING OFFICIAL REPORTS.

h/t to Gene Nemetz, now send in the trolls