What Happened To Winter? Temperature Hits 70 Degrees In Cleveland, Breaking 130-Year-Old Record For Jan. 11

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The 3News weather team was expecting unseasonably warm temperatures to hit the Lakefront on Saturday. Turns out, it was one of the hottest January days Cleveland has ever seen.

The National Weather Service confirms the temperature in downtown Cleveland hit 70 degrees Fahrenheit this afternoon, shattering the old record for Jan. 11 set back in 1890. According to the service’s data, it’s also the warmest January day Cleveland has seen since 1950, when a 73-degree mark on Jan. 25 set what still stands as the record for the month.

Multiple cities across the Northeast were expected to approach or break temperature records Saturday, and quite a few did: Akron hit 71 degrees, Mansfield hit 69, and Youngstown hit 66. Things have since started to cool down and much of the region is now in the 40s.

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{Matzav.com}


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