They say records are meant to be broken, and a 116-year-old mark just might fall Tuesday in Ann Arbor.

This record isn’t some ancient University of Michigan football stat, though. This one was set on the thermometer.

Dennis Kahlbaum, U-M weather observer, said the high temperature for Sept. 10 in Ann Arbor is 95 degrees., set in 1897. As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, it looked like the city’s high temperature on Tuesday would get right to that point.

“It’s gonna be close,” Kahlbaum said.

The record high of 95 degrees is one degree higher than the official record at the National Weather Service station in Detroit, said meteorologist Matt Mosteiko.

At 12:30 p.m., the temperature was at 87 degrees in Detroit and slated to increase for a frew more hours, Mosteiko said. If the air dries out, a new high temperature record will be within reach.

It’s unusual to have a day in the mid-90s in Michigan, but it’s not completely unheard of, Mosteiko said.

Sept. 15 is the latest recorded date that the temperature reached 100 degrees in the Detroit metro area, Mosteiko said. “But, it’s not common by any means.”

He added, “We still have another week or so of the season of summer.”

There’s some discrepancy as to what the actual record temperature for the day is in Ann Arbor.

The measuring station at the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport puts the record high for Sept. 10 at 91 degrees. Kahlbaum said the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) at the airport only goes back until when the system was installed.

Obviously, there weren’t even airplanes in 1897, let alone airports to install ASOS systems in to measure high temperatures.

“University of Michigan observations go back to 1880 and we have the most complete observations in all of Michigan,” Kahlbaum said.

Luckily for us heat-stricken Ann Arborites, there actually are lower temperatures in the forecast soon.

Mosteiko said the temperature on Wednesday will, again, be blisteringly hot: 93 degrees. But, on Thursday the high is expected to be a much-cooler 80 degrees.

By Friday the National Weather Service predicts a high temperature of only 59 degrees.

A record-high to below 60 in three days? Gotta love that Michigan weather.

Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for The Ann Arbor News. He can be reached at kylefeldscher@mlive.com or you can follow him on Twitter.