Thursday's high temperature was far below the average for this time of March. Yesterday hit 24 degrees F at its warmest point. This is 19 degrees below Eau Claire's average for March 21st. The low of -4 degrees F was 28 degrees below average. To put this in perspective with the rest of the nation, the extreme high was 88 degrees F in Riverside, California and the extreme low was -29 degrees F in Eagle, Alaska. If you are getting the cold weather blues, just be thankful you aren't living in Eagle, Alaska. Their high was -27 degrees F yesterday. Yikes! I bet those 9 mph western wind gusts yesterday don't seem so bad now, do they?
At least we escaped a day of accumulating precipitation in Eau Claire. We were, however, close to the record low temperature for Eau Claire. Set in 1965, Eau Claire's record low was -6 degrees F, just 2 degrees colder than we experienced yesterday. On the flipside, we were well below the record high of 62 degrees F set in 2009.
Keep dreaming, Eau Claire.
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