You Could See Highs In 90s/100s

Record heat has been baking the Southeast, with summerlike temperatures soaring into the 80s and even 90s in places like Atlanta, Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville as highs will ran as much as 20 to 30 degrees above average for mid-April standards.

The Biggest Records

Atlanta reached 90 degrees Friday and is expected to tie or set daily high records through Saturday. The city had previously only seen 4 days at or above 90 degrees in the month of April in history, and Friday was the first since 1986 and the earliest 90 degree day on record.

In addition to the earliest 90 degree day recorded in Atlanta, the daily record for April 17 was also broken. Daily high temperature records were also broken in Shelby County, Louisiana (89), Gainesville, Florida (91) and Saint Petersburg, Florida (91).

Thursday saw a daily record tied or broken in Raleigh, North Carolina (92), Norfolk, Virginia (92), Atlantic City, New Jersey (91), Baltimore, Maryland (91), Philadelphia (91), Georgetown, Delaware (90) and Jacksonville, Florida (90).

Wednesday brought numerous daily high temperature records that were tied or broken across the Eastern U.S. in over 40 locations.

Georgetown, Delaware, had its record earliest-in-spring 90-degree high on record, eclipsing the previous record from 2002 by two days.

Though it wasn't record early, Philadelphia (91 degrees) hadn't hit the 90s this early in April since 1977.

Other daily records Wednesday were tied or set in Richmond, Virginia (93), Raleigh, North Carolina (92), Columbia, South Carolina (92), Baltimore, Maryland (91), Washington D.C. (90), New York City (90) and Newark, New Jersey, (91).

Tuesday saw daily high temperature records broken in Delaware and New Jersey. Georgetown and Wilmington, Delaware, both saw highs of 87 degrees, which broke daily records, while Atlantic City, New Jersey, broke a daily record with a high of 88.

Lincoln, Nebraska, reached 90 degrees on Monday and Concordia, Kansas, hit 91. These were both daily records.

Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.