Tuesday marked the 4th consecutive day of record high temperatures. We will likely break another record on Wednesday to extend the streak to 5 days in a row of hottest-ever temperatures. This will tie the 5-day streak from August 15-19 set in 1936, the hottest year on record. If we set another record on Thursday, we will have the longest string of records since 1898. By the way, the hottest temperature ever recorded in March was 87 degrees on March 24, 1929.

FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...

A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE TODAY.  SEVERE WEATHER WILL LIKELY BEGIN AROUND 3 PM CST IN ILLINOIS AND END BY BY 9 PM IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE VIEWING AREA. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN ADDITION TO GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL.  SEE THE CHART ABOVE FOR THE CHANCES OF A TORNADO HITTING WITHIN 25 MILES OF YOUR AREA.

Check out these spring-like mid-afternoon temperatures from Friday.  Our weather spotters were nearly all reporting temperatures of 60 or higher.  The record high in Evansville was 65 set just four years ago (the same year we had the ice storm).

Meteorologist Jeff Lyons is tracking the temperatures and he'll let us know if there were any records set on 14 News.

We're looking at the low 50s for high temps over the next couple of days before things cool off for a little while.  We'll have better than average weather again by late next week.