MARQUETTE (WWJ) - The Upper Peninsula scorched under record-setting heat that reached over 90 degrees on Monday -- it is the first time all summer temperatures got that high in Michigan, experts said.
The National Weather Service in Marquette said their office recorded a new high temperature of 95° on Monday, Sept. 4, which shattered the previous record of 88° set back in 1999.
"It also breaks the all-time September monthly record of 93 set September 9, 2002," the office said in an update to social media.
Weather experts stated that, with the exception of Monday, temperatures failed to break 90° so far this summer. Steven Freitag, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service station in White Lake Township, told the Detroit News the last time Michigan had a summer with temperatures staying below 90 was back in 1915.
Metro Detroiters are also seeing some of the hottest temperatures so far this summer, which the NWS says has been cooler and wetter than most, as daily highs flirt with 90 degrees yet again on Tuesday.
Meteorological summer runs from June to August and typically sees the hottest temperatures of the year, but experts said daily highs across the state were lower than normal.
"We only had two 90 degrees days this summer," said Freitag. "The area typically sees 12 days of 90 degrees, he said. Even on the two days that it did hit 90 — June 2 and July 5 — it only reached 90, not higher.
Labor Day weekend baked much of Michigan with hot and humid weather to start the month off. While we're not even close to snow day territory yet, some kids across Metro Detroit are getting a day off due to the weather.
Southfield Public Schools officials announced Sunday the district will be closed on Tuesday due to the heat.
All schools, school-related activities and evening activities will be closed in Southfield.
Tuesday is expected to be "hot and humid," according to AccuWeather meteorologist Carl Erickson, who says high temps across the area will likely hit 90 degrees, with RealFeel temperatures in the upper 90s.
In Detroit, meanwhile, public school students will be released early due to the heat.
DPSCD officials said all schools will be dismissed three hours earlier than their normal dismissal times. Some schools across the city do not have air conditioning.
