Pending verification, Friday will go down in history as the hottest day ever for South Carolina.
Temperatures soared to 113 degrees on Friday at the reporting stations in the town of Johnston and the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
These temperatures on paper have surpassed the state's previous all-time record high of 111 degrees, which was set in Camden on June 28, 1954.
However, National Weather Service meteorologists and the South Carolina Climate Office must first verify that the temperature readings are accurate--a task scheduled to be completed Monday.
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