Hot summer nights set record

High humidty blamed for nighttime temps around 70

Luke Janzen fills up cups with water from the splash pad’s fountains during his family’s visit in the Thursday afternoon heat. The splash pad in Cole Park is now closed for the season.
Luke Janzen fills up cups with water from the splash pad’s fountains during his family’s visit in the Thursday afternoon heat. The splash pad in Cole Park is now closed for the season.

While the heat wave of the last few days may not have set any records for daytime highs, it was, however, a record setter in terms of overnight lows. According to the National Weather Service office in Hastings, the nighttime low temperatures for the week of Aug. 28 through Sept. 3 were the highest in 130 years.  Forecaster Jeremy Wesely reported Friday that the average overnight low through …