Columbia breaks all-time high at 108 degrees

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It has never been this hot in Columbia in 125 years of record keeping.

The National Weather Service said the temperature at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport reached 108 degrees at 3:10 p.m. Friday, breaking the record of 107 last reached in August 2007.

Forecasters have been keeping records in Columbia since 1887.

Most of the state topped 100 degrees Friday except for the immediate coast. The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport reached 103 degrees, and Florence reached 104 degrees, setting records for the day.

The hottest temperature ever recorded in South Carolina was 111 degrees, recorded in Camden in June 1954.