By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

There’s a good reason your air conditioner seemed to never shut off yesterday.

According to official statistics from the K-State Agricultural Research Center south of Hays, Wednesday’s high was 97 degrees–nowhere near the record of 105 degrees in 1947 on Sept. 16–but it was considerably warmer than a year ago. The high was 81 degrees in Hays on Sept. 16, 2014.

Official weather guy Joe Becker noted this morning that Wednesday was “another warm night. It was still 80° at 11 p.m. CDT last night with the temp gradually falling to 72° at 6 a.m. CDT this (Thursday) morning.”

Hays also recorded 0.02 inches of rain overnight.