Saturday Temperatures (6 January) Hit All-Time Daily Record of 72 In New York City - NYT

[hatrack]

Hundreds of tourists and locals packed the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center yesterday, pretending that it really was a cold, snowy day in early January as they circled the ice beneath the giant Christmas tree. In Brooklyn, eight members of a cold-water-braving organization known as the Coney Island Polar Bear Club walked toward the waves, some wearing nothing but swim trunks.

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The unseasonably warm spell shattered records around the city and the state as well as throughout New Jersey and Connecticut. In Central Park, the high temperature at 1:37 p.m. — 72 degrees — broke the date’s previous high of 63 degrees in 1950, the National Weather Service reported.

It tied the highest temperature recorded in the park in January since record-keeping began in the late 1800s, sharing that distinction with a 72-degree high on Jan. 26, 1950.

The difference between the old and new records was even greater in Bridgeport, Conn., the weather service said, where the high of 68 was 15 degrees above the previous record, in 1949. In Newark, the high of 72 was 11 degrees over the old mark, from 1950.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/nyregion/07heat.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Lost-in-FL]

1. I guess there won't be Canadian or American

ICEWINE this year, eh?

[Skink]

2. Back in 95 it was in the 60's in January in New Hampshire.

damn near t-shirt weather.

[papau]

3. that was yesterday - Sunday was about 51 in Boston, & Wed will be high of 35

but then we get warm again but only into the 40's for the highs.

This is a strange winter.