MASSENA - Record-setting temperatures ushered in the first day of summer on Wednesday.

The 4 p.m. temperature of 92 degrees at Massena International Airport broke the previous record of 91 set in 1953, according to John Goff, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Burlington, Vt. Factoring in humidity, the heat index, or what it feels like outside, was 100 degrees.

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