from 1878 to 2011, the highest recorded temperatures at atlanta were on three days in the extraordinarily hot july 1980, followed by that month and in august 2007, the hottest month ever for the area. this was broken on the last day of june 2012, when the temperature reached , during a massive heat wave that hit most of the country, with another 105 the next day tying the july record. the lowest recorded temperatures were and on january 20 and 21 of 1985, and on february 13, 1899, during severe cold snaps that went so far south they devastated the entire citrus industry in central florida.