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What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
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03-13-2012, 06:02 PM
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What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
 Record high temperatures breached across the upper Midwest and Northeast.
Wayne Gerdes - CleanMPG - March 13, 2012
The Pup is all wet!
This is right up Brandon’s (FSUspectra) alley as the jet stream is currently located far north of its normal path and well into Canada currently.
What does the Jet Stream up north have in store for us “southerners”? We are all currently basking in unseasonably warm temperatures is what. It is beautiful now but I have the distinct feeling we will be paying a very high price for this type of early spring weather phenomena later on this summer.
Here in Chicago it was in the low 70’s with near record or record highs expected on Wednesday and Thursday pushing well into the mid to upper 70s!
Yesterday, a temperature record that has stood for over 110 years was broken when Boston reached a record high 71 degrees.
Other high temperature records tied or broken- New York City - 71 degrees in Central Park, tying a record dating back to 1890.
- Minneapolis/St. Paul reached 66 degrees on Saturday and Sunday, topping their previous record highs that have stood for 134 and 100 years respectively.
- St Louis, tied its record at 84 degrees yesterday.
- Albany, NY.
- Bridgeport, CT.
- Buffalo, NY.
- Burlington, VT.
- Newark, NJ.
So what did I do? I went for a walk and took the pup along so she could take her very first swim in the lake 
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03-13-2012, 06:15 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
I came home from work and rode my mountain bike ten miles.
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03-13-2012, 06:15 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
I left the Leaf at home and biked to work! :-)
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03-13-2012, 06:24 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
Sat at work all day. 
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03-13-2012, 06:29 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
I worked till 2:30pm then drove home at 105.7 mpg for 11.5 miles.  Our record here was 76F in 1995; we only got to 64F today. Oh, I got 112.8 on the way to work this morning.  |
03-13-2012, 06:34 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
Hi Larry:
Gotta give the bikers their due today! Way to go Edwin and Matt
Wayne
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03-13-2012, 06:36 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
Yup, rode my mountain bike to work today. Hoping to do so the rest of the week, weather and motivation permitting.
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03-13-2012, 06:47 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
We blew away our previous record of 44F, it was 52F today. Rode 10km on my bicycle, about time I started to get some exercise again. Contemplating pulling my motorcycle out of the garage this weekend
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03-13-2012, 06:49 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
It was warm here yesterday too. When I got home from part-time work, I washed my Escape!
My wife had already washed her Corolla.
Today, I aired up the bikes and we did our first few miles of the season..
We got new Electra Townie bikes and really like them a lot!
Super nice day in Greater Bean Town..
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03-13-2012, 07:26 PM
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Re: What Did You Do On This Record Setting High Temperature Day?
It "only" peaked at around 61F here, about 20F above the average and 1F above the previous record.
The only snow left is dirty snow in the shade.
It was 75F in the building at work. It's not time to turn off the heating yet. 
EDIT:
Oh, what did we do? I went out to dinner with my wife. We walked downtown 0.8 miles via the post office (to mail a movie), ate and walked the direct route 0.6 miles back. It was probably around 50F when we left and 45F when we walked back. That's more than warm enough for us to walk.
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