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Heat records broken Sunday in Puget Sound

Jun 5, 2016, 6:37 PM | Updated: 9:13 pm

A view of Mount Rainier. ( KIRO 7, via Sergey Akimov...

A view of Mount Rainier. ( KIRO 7, via Sergey Akimov

It was record-breakingly hot in parts of Washington Sunday, with temperatures reaching more than 90 degrees in some areas.

According to the National Weather Service, temperature records were broken in Olympia (94 degrees), Bellingham (85 degrees) and Seatac (93 degrees).

A heat advisory was in effect through 9 p.m. Sunday in Seattle.

Some, including Terry Hollimon, from the Barbershop on KIRO Radio, took interesting approaches to staying cool.

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