AUGUSTA, Ga. - More record cold air is forecast this weekend. We expect a low temperature near 21 degrees Saturday morning and near 19 degrees Sunday morning. Records are as follows:

November 22,  20 degrees (2000) - Our forecast: 21
November 23,  21 degrees (1956) - Our forecast: 19

This cold air follows in the wake of record cold recorded Wednesday morning. Augusta Bush Field, the area's official weather observation location, dipped to 22 degrees Wednesday morning. This easily shattered the previous record low for the date of 25 degrees set back in 1959.

Here is a sampling of low temperatures Wednesday morning provided by the National Weather Service:

AUGUSTA BUSH APT  GA               22* new record
AUGUSTA DANIEL APT GA              29
COLUMBIA METRO APT SC              22* ties record
APPLING GA                         20
BAMBERG SC                         25
BARNWELL SC                        19
JOHNSTON SC                        24
MCCORMICK SC                       22
MIDVILLE COOP GA                   22
PELION SC                          17
PAGELAND SC                        32
SALUDA FILTRATION PLANT SC         20
SANDHILL EXP STATION SC            25
SANDY RUN SC                       25
WAYNESBORO  GA                     23

The air this morning was the coldest this early in the season in almost 40 years. The temperature last dropped to 22 degrees this early in the season on November 15, 1969.

Augusta has never recorded a temperature below 22 degrees before November 20. The lowest temperature recorded in Augusta during the month of November was 11 degrees back on November 25, 1950.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Augusta was minus 1 degree back on January 21, 1985.

We expect this November to end up much colder than average.