
Brittany Moss, 20 (left), laughs during a game of one-on-one with friend Brittany Brown, 20, at the May Park basketball court in Augusta. "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood," Ms. Brown said.

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Ms. Brown goes up for a shot. Augusta's high Wednesday was 77 -- just four degrees shy of the record for Feb. 11, set in 1932, according to the National Weather Service in West Columbia, S.C. Tim Hawks, a meteorologist with the weather service, said the average high is 60 for this time of year. He said Wednesday's low -- 44 -- was 9 degrees above normal.