September 28, 2014
By Kate Bramson

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — You thought it was pretty hot for the final Sunday in September, didn’t you?

You were right.

When the mercury hit 86 degrees Fahrenheit Sunday at 2:51 p.m., it broke Providence’s 1943 record for the hottest September 28, National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Thompson said. Back then, the high was 84 degrees, according to National Weather Service records.

The low temperature Sunday was 55 degrees, well above the record low of 33 degrees set in 1980.

Saturday, too, brought pretty glorious fall weather for a Sept. 27. The high of 85 degrees fell just one degree shy of breaking the 1998 record, Thompson said.

More typical temperatures on September 28 range from an average low of 50 degrees to the average high of 70, he said....