Houston Running: Sunday's high of 81 degrees sets record for Houston

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Monday, January 02, 2006

Sunday's high of 81 degrees sets record for Houston

Jan. 2, 2006, 1:30AM (Houston Chronicle)
Sunday's high of 81 degrees sets record for Houston

The first day of the New Year brought Houston something the city's become all too familiar with: record temperature.

Eleven days into winter, the mercury reached 81 Sunday, beating the previous high of 80 set in 1934.

"The upper-air pattern is keeping the weather — storms and cold fronts — to the north," said Josh Richter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston. "It won't get closer to normal until after Wednesday."

The record high for Jan. 2 is 82 in 1965.

(Thank goodness I'm not running a marathon today too. -- JW)

2 Comments:

Hey Zeus said...: Have you seen the forecast for 1-15-06? Mid to upper 70s for the high.; 2:20 PM
Anonymous said...: I came across another runner/blogger for ya Jon - http://www.chach-house.net/~lobo/ . I tried to leave him an invite on his site but it wouldn't let me comment.

Thoroughly enjoyed the 60 degree weather for this morning's run but that was with enough of a breeze to cool things off.; 5:23 PM