| Warmest
August Ever at Grandfather Mountain
It was the warmest August ever at Grandfather Mountain
with new record daily high temperatures set on 10
different dates.
79º
on Aug. 7 broke previous record of 77º degrees
set in 1980.
80º
on Aug. 8 broke the previous record of 79º
set in 1979.
81º
on Aug. 9 broke the previous record of 79º
set in 1979.
79º
on Aug. 10 broke the previous record of 78º
set in 1980.
78º
on Aug. 11 broke the previous record of 77º
set in 1992.
79º
on Aug. 15 broke the previous record of 78º
set in 1995 and 2005.
81º
on Aug. 16 broke the previous record of 79º
set in 1988.
80º
on Aug. 24 broke the previous record of 76º
set in 1975.
79º
on Aug. 25 broke the previous record of 76º
set in 1975.
76º
on Aug. 29 broke the previous record of 75º
set in 1993.
The
all time highest temperature ever recorded at Grandfather
Mountain was 83º on Aug. 22, 1983.
Read
more about it.
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In January a group of professors from Appalachian
State University were enlisted to perform an energy
efficiency survey at Grandfather Mountain. In August
they returned with energy-saving recommendations that
can pay for themselves in three to six years while
reducing Grandfather Mountain's carbon footprint by
as much as 50 percent. 
Large
numbers of Monarch butterflies will be passing through the
Grandfather Mountain area during the next few weeks on the
2,500-mile migration to overwinter in Mexico. Unique in
the wild kingdom, as many as four generations of Monarchs
will hatch, grow, metamorphose and reproduce over the course
of the coming year before the remarkable migration begins
again next fall. 
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