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Near Record Warmth On The Anniversary Of The Blizzard Of 1888
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Joe Schumacher
Published Mar 12, 2012
Modified Mar 12, 2012
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While the weather over the middle part of the country is a big question mark this morning, the New York area will bask in near record high temperatures this afternoon. Meteorologically, there's not much to this story. High pressure is sitting just off the coast and that is bringing us a warm, southerly breeze today. Central Park's record high for this date is 71 degrees set in 1890. We'll likely fall a couple degrees short of that mark, but other nearby locations, with much shorter climate records, will probably break their records today.
A weak warm front may produce a few light showers overnight and into tomorrow morning. As the skies clear tomorrow afternoon it should warm up to the lower 70s. That's nowhere near the record of 85 degrees set in 1990 and an odd way to observe the anniversary of the blizzard of 1888. There's a slight chance that the cold front that is expected to pass on Tuesday night might produce a few showers. There's an even lesser chance that the front will produce cold weather.
Wednesday should see sunny skies and a high in the mid 60s. Thursday's high will be in the low 60s. The National Weather Service thinks that "cool" weather will stick around another day but the Weather Channel has us warming up on Friday. Beyond Friday both agree that we'll be running a good fifteen degrees warmer than normal from the weekend through the middle of next week.
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