Shoals feeling record highs

There appears to be little relief in sight for Shoals residents who will likely face an eighth consecutive day of triple-digit temperatures today.

Monday's high topped out at 104 degrees, the highest temperature on record for Aug. 13, according to meteorologists with the National Weather Service's office in Huntsville.

The previous record high for the date was 102 in 1999, weather officials said.

Monday marked the seventh straight day with temperatures over 100 degrees.

It's been 27 years since anyone in the Shoals has witnessed so many consecutive days of temperatures over 100 degrees.

Jason Elliott, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Huntsville, said the last time the Shoals had more 100-plus degree temperature days in a row was July 1980 when the temperature topped 100 on 12 consecutive days.

Elliott said the Shoals has never experienced seven consecutive days in August where the temperature has been 100 degrees or more.

The heat wave show no signs of relenting with temperatures above 100 degrees in the forecast through Friday.

Highs in the upper 90s are predicted for this weekend, however.

Some meteorologists are predicting Wednesday's high temperature to be 106 degrees.

"It looks like it's going to hang around a while," Elliott said.