NATION : Record Highs Warm Northeast
People in the Northeast used to bundling up this time of year got one last chanch to hit the streets in shirt sleeves, but things began returning to normal this morning as temperatures fell.
Boston hit 74 degrees Wednesday, breaking the record of 68 for the date set in 1896. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in Boston so late in the year.
New York City peaked at 69 degrees at midnight, tying a 95-year-old record for Nov. 28. The normal high for the date is 48 degrees. The temperature held at 69 at 1 a.m. today, two degrees warmer than the record for Nov. 29 set in 1968, according to the National Weather Service.
But by 10 a.m. today, the mercury dipped to 50 degrees in New York and to 56 degrees in Boston.
Temperatures were expected to drop back down to the 40s over the weekend, and forecasters predicted a colder than normal winter for most of the East.
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