Weather scorches the fair over the weekend

Mother Nature turned up the heat during the Great Northern Fair following a week of relatively cooler weather along with storms and thunderstorms that brought brief downpours and damaging hail the week before.

By 2:38 p.m. Sunday National Weather Service reported Havre had hit 100 degrees at the recording station at the Havre City-County Airport, following a high of 97 Saturday and 95 Friday. Wednesday, which earlier had been predicted to see a high of 100 or more in Havre topped out at 95 degrees.

The temps had started to drop in Havre by 5 p.m. Sunday, with Weather Service reporting the temp...